Maybe this demonstrates the difference Hasbeen is drawing and others seem at pains to ignore his practical meaning,

<Sir David Attenborough gets a mauling from academic....because he's 'ignoring' all the gay animals in his BBC nature documentaries
By Fiona Macrae 9 February 2013
David Attenborough is accused of not covering homosexuality in the animal kingdom

Gay rights campaigners were delighted when the Commons approved same-sex marriage this week.

But it appears there is another fight on the horizon – for equality in Sir David Attenborough’s nature documentaries.

An academic has criticised the BBC star for failing to cover homosexuality in the animal kingdom.

Dr Brett Mills, head of media studies at the University of East Anglia, said that while he doubted Sir David was deliberately ignoring the issues, homosexuality is ‘pretty much everywhere’ in the animal world.

He said that by ignoring or sidelining the issue, wildlife documentary makers are skewing the audience’s view of what is natural.

Dr Mills – who has previously criticised such documentaries for invading animals’ rights to privacy – said: ‘These programmes make a valuable contribution to environmental awareness and how people think about the world around them. They are highly regarded and educational but they should also be offering alternative interpretations of animal behaviour.

‘The central role in documentary stories of pairing, mating and raising offspring commonly rests on assumptions of heterosexuality within the animal kingdom.>

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That article might result in confused priorities for some in this thread. LOL

Not to worry Hasbeen, your secret is safe with me....just don't tell the 'academically challenged' Individual : )

Paul is right in saying there are good and bad in any group of people in society, so Individual doesn't gave a leg to stand on re his seemingly paranoid feelings about all those nasty academics out there in the big, wide educated world...beyond his reach.

In any case, I think we have established that both academics and non-academics do work as one when trying to save the native animals, so I will see you all on another equally thrilling thread : )

Cheers,
Sues.

Suse,

"There are many academics who have done wonderful work in saving many native animals from extinction."

Name a couple!

You haven't named any yet, can't you Google a couple?

Give the animal killers a free hand and native animals such as the koala will be shot to extinction. A bunch of these shooters recently tortured a koala to death in Queensland (see link). Many of these so called hunters take perverse pleasure not by killing animals outright but rather in torturing animals like koalas and possums slowly to death. There are many accounts of drunken hunters dismembering kangaroos (see link). There people may even be responsible for bushfires, pollution, destruction of property and degradation of the bush. As these people have no regard for our native flora and fauna I would strongly advise if they get their way decent people should keep right out of national parks as anyone would be fair game to these people.


http://www.inquisitr.com/312927/

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/roo-slaughter-renews-greens-hunting-unease/story-e6frfku9-1226608988676

Paul, getting desperate?

The first link has absolutely nothing to do with shooters and the second one is from a highly prejudiced source, David Shoebridge, who just voted for hunting to continue in State Forests and to commence in National Parks; bit of a double standard.

Sandalplank gives no evidence that the kangaroos mentioned were in fact shot.

Why don't you bring up the famous incident when a wallaby/'roo was shot with an arrow near Hilltop NSW

Is Mise, you know as well as I do, if the drunken hoards of murderous Rambo hunters are allowed into our national parks nothing will be safe, animals, plants, people, it will be a free for all.
My links are unbiased and perfectly to the point. Remember the Victorian duck hunting season and what used to go on with that drunken crowd of killers? It will be the same again if the hunting lobby get their way.