Monotremage

[den]

I met Peggy Rismiller! dmmaus may have met Jane Goodall, but *I* met Australia's top echidna expert! Peggy came here in the mid 80s on two 1/2 grants; 1/2 a grant to study tigre snakes, and 1/2 a grant to study echidnas. That's one grant to study a live-bearing reptile and an egg-laying mammal. One echidna she has been following in the wild is at least 40 years old. I asked her if she thought the echidna genome will be as odd as the platypus genome. She said she did think that, but no one is as yet working on decoding the DNA. Why? There's no money in it.

I picked up her notes on Tachyglosus rescue, rehab and raising. I feel much more confident and ready for my next puggle.

Comments

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

It's always nice when one meets one heros and they turn out to be as cool as one thought!

-=Kiyoshi

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Awesome. That must have been a fun meeting!

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

t's always good to get self written reference materials from the expert(s)! :D
It's interesting how little we know about a lot of species, despite their having been named.
We know enough about human beings, that's for sure!

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

What was she like? Was she friendly? Not at all stuck up? I love people with the dedication to be wildlife biologists. Especially in Australia, where almost everything is trying to kill you, heh.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

She was great! Happy to answer questions, and happy to be with 80 people who were *interested* in what she has to say.