[Taxacom] Taxonomy Fail

[David Orlovich]

Further to my last post, I found the brushtailed possum version and  
have put it here:  http://mycology.otago.ac.nz/possum/cat.jpg  It was  
made in Australia (the phone number is the "talking clock" number).   
Also, it features as a fake on this web site: http://www.tetherdcow.com/?cat=35 
.

Cheers, David.



On 13/12/2008, at 10:25 AM, David Orlovich wrote:

> ... and it has done the rounds of NZ with a common brushtailed possum
> (introduced marsupial from Australia) photograph in the place of the
> opossum. Cheers, David.
>
> On 13/12/2008, at 10:14 AM, Doug Yanega wrote:
>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> i could not resist to post this link...
>>>
>>> http://failblog.org/2008/04/22/taxonomy-fail/
>>
>> It is funny, but it IS a staged fake; the left-hand "photograph" on
>> the poster is from the Wikipedia article on opossums (as of the time
>> the image originally started circulating; that photo has since been
>> replaced and is not in the opossum article any longer). So, the
>> person who made the poster was pulling a stunt, deliberately - there
>> never was any such person who found any such animal.
>>
>> Peace,
>> -- 
>>
>> Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research
>> Museum
>> Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314        skype: dyanega
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