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 "Mean and lowly things" from Kate Jackson

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Guenter Leitenbauer
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I read this interesting book in my holidays.

Kate Jackson (Smithsonian Institute) tells from her trips to Congo between 2004 and 2006. She caught amphibians and reptiles there, euthanized them and prepared it for the Smithsonian. A very interesting book, but I asked myself, if it is still necessary to kill wild animals for scientific purposes?

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Unfortunately still necessary, I think.
Think of the typus or holotypus to describe a sp. (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, ICZN

Kate Jackson is a very friendly person, gave me the right of use some of her pics.

rgds Fabian
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And her book is great.
I asked this without any judgment, just for my interest.
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I asked this without any judgment, just for my interest.

I expected nothing else.Maybe I´ll find the time to read this book. ( Do you have an ISBN-Code ? )

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Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo

Verlag: Harvard Univ Pr (Mai 2010)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0674048423
ISBN-13: 978-0674048423
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I saw pictures from this expedition on web. Don't know on witch site. It is necesary to have holotypes for ID. It's allready a mess in the Nomenclature and a lot of work is questionable becouse cutting the rules by some 'herpatologist and naturalists' defining species with unsufficient data.

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yes sadly but true and it is sitll necessarly as long , like bosjan said every wanna be herpotologist and taxidriver Mad runs around out there givng species new names
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