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Jennifer Jacquet is a Ph.D. candidate with the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. She works closely with Dr. Daniel Pauly, who coined the term Shifting Baselines, the syndrome on which this blog focuses.
Josh Donlan is a conservation scientist and a Visting Fellow at Cornell University. He often hides out in the backcountry of the Teton Mountains, pondering bygone giant beavers and ground sloths. He also is also the founder and Director of Advanced Conservation Strategies and has a habit of restoring remote islands.
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Posted on: May 5, 2008 3:17 PM, by Jennifer L. Jacquet
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In Venezuela, I saw a captive tapir trying to make out with a manatee.
Posted by: Jim Thomerson | May 5, 2008 4:41 PM
What?!! Jim, this is awesome. And not just because I love manatees. Can you expand?
Posted by: Jennifer L. Jacquet | May 5, 2008 5:07 PM
Tapir certainly expanded....his repertoire....
Posted by: Coturnix | May 6, 2008 4:37 PM
The tapir and manatee were in a fairly large enclosure with a pond. The pond water was muddy, so the clinical details were not visible, but the tapir did not appear to have much success. He did keep trying during the short period I was there. This was at an aquarium in Valencia, Venezuela, maybe 15 years ago.
Posted by: Jim Thomerson | May 7, 2008 9:41 AM
I wonder why and how often this happens to different species? So bizarre!
Posted by: Donglai Gong | May 9, 2008 8:31 AM