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OfflineCatalysis
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Scientists Discover Dozens of New Species
    #5271302 - 02/06/06 08:42 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

By ROBIN McDOWELL, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A team of scientists exploring an isolated jungle in one of Indonesia's most remote provinces said they discovered dozens of new species of frogs, butterflies and plants ? as well as large mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere.

The team also found wildlife that were remarkably unafraid of humans during their rapid assessment survey of the Foja Mountains, which has more than two million acres of old growth tropical forest, Bruce Beehler, a co-leader of the monthlong trip, said in announcing the discoveries on Tuesday.

Two Long-Beaked Echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal, simply allowed scientists to pick them up and bring them back to their camp to be studied, he said.

Their findings, however, will have to be published and then reviewed by peers before being officially classified as new species, a process that could take six months to several years.

The December 2005 expedition to the eastern province of Papua was organized by the U.S.-based environmental organization Conservation International and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.

"There was not a single trail, no sign of civilization, no sign of even local communities ever having been there," said Beehler, adding that two headmen from the Kwerba and Papasena tribes, the customary landowners of the Foja Mountains, accompanied the expedition.

"They were as astounded as we were at how isolated it was," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Washington. "As far as they knew, neither of their clans had ever been to the area."

Papua, the scene of a decades-long separatist rebellion that has left an estimated 100,000 people dead, is one of Indonesia's most remote provinces, geographically and politically, and access by foreigners is tightly restricted.

The 11-member team of U.S., Indonesian and Australian scientists needed six permits before they could legally fly by helicopter to an open, boggy lakebed surrounded by forests near the range's western summit.

The scientists said they discovered 20 frog species ? including a tiny microhylid frog less than a half-inch long ? four new butterfly species, and at least five new types of palms.

Because of the rich diversity in the forest, the group rarely had to stray more than a few miles from their base camp.

"We've only scratched the surface," said Beehler, vice president of Conservation International's Melanesia Center for Biodiversity Conservation, who hopes to return later this year with other scientists.

One of the most remarkable discoveries was the Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo, an arboreal jungle-dweller new for Indonesia and previously thought to have been hunted to near extinction, and a new honeyeater bird, which has a bright orange face-patch with a pendant wattle under each eye, Beehler said.

One of the reasons for the rain forest's isolation, he said, was that only a few hundred people live in the region and game in the mountain's foothills was so abundant that they had no reason to venture into the jungle's interior.

There did not appear to be any immediate conservation threat to the area, which has the status of a wildlife sanctuary, he said.

"No logging permits are given to this area, there is no transport system ? not a single road," Beehler said.

"But clearly with time everything is a threat. In the next few decades there will be strong demands, especially if you think of the timber needs of nearby countries like China and Japan. They will be very hungry for logs."


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Re: Scientists Discover Dozens of New Species [Re: Catalysis]
    #5272214 - 02/07/06 01:59 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

its awesome that there are still so many animals out there we have yet to find.


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Re: Scientists Discover Dozens of New Species [Re: automan]
    #5275172 - 02/07/06 08:54 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

damn....i want to see pictures :smile:


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Re: Scientists Discover Dozens of New Species [Re: Catalysis]
    #12848036 - 07/04/10 03:01 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

Strangely enough, this guy is a distant relative...


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Re: Scientists Discover Dozens of New Species [Re: Groovy Grant]
    #12857766 - 07/06/10 05:26 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

They're always frogs.


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Re: Scientists Discover Dozens of New Species [Re: ThornApple]
    #12860166 - 07/07/10 01:27 AM (13 years, 6 months ago)

I have been listening to a biology podcast and I am amazed at the things I am learning about life. While the average person would only look at the physical differences to catagotize one animal from another, I am learning that looks can be decieving when it comes to biology. I wonder what new advances we can have in science with such big discoveries such as finding new species of life. The ignorant such as myself can only imagine.


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Re: Scientists Discover Dozens of New Species [Re: Catalysis]
    #12863143 - 07/07/10 05:42 PM (13 years, 6 months ago)

It seems amazing that there are still areas above the surface of the ocean that are still so unexplored.

I want to see some pictures too!


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