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The Great Barrier Reef and the bumphead parrotfish : Comments
By Nicole Rosmarino, published 23/3/2010The bumphead parrotfish is the fish that helps make the white coral sands of north Queensland's beaches so breathtakingly beautiful.
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either silence, or the jeering of cynics from the other side.
Forrest,
I did read your (unpopular) thread on the topic of popularity, but couldn't think what to contribute. Do you have a theory about these anomolies?
Spindoc,
I would hazard a guess that the extra information you seek can be found in the appropriate journal. Do you really think the author had room to go into all that detail, or that it would have suited an OLO readership? Excluding your learned Self of course.
Pericles,
according to your logic, we should kill all the humans before they destroy the planet!
As for your "research", I'll go out on a limb (or reef, I should say), and suggest that poor old Bumphead plays a sustaining role within the ecosystem of the reef? It did after all evolve there!
I also am sure the author meant well, and clearly yes, it was an environmental pamphlet--not "spin" though, I wouldn't think. Anyway, thankfully we have you and Hasbeen and spindoc to see through this kind of woolly compassionate nonsense.
Excuse the tone, I'm just dirty because you've trumped me for the most cynical line of the week.
I said, <The "sanctity of life", what a joke, only applies to humans, I'm afraid.> (I should have said "some" humans).
Your much cynical suit was:
<The reef would be nothing without all the pretty fishes. And yes, the reef is probably the most attractive single natural feature that Australia has to offer.>
Thank heavens we're here to appreciate the aesthetics of the reef (before it dies), otherwise it would be ... "nothing".
Ever the pragmatist eh?