[HN Gopher] Lemur's lament: When one vulnerable species stalks a...
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       Lemur's lament: When one vulnerable species stalks another
        
       Author : geox
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2024-04-21 11:20 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | jwoq9118 wrote:
       | Proud WashU grad here. Just happy to see us show up on Hacker
       | News today.
        
         | Joel_Mckay wrote:
         | Your profs do fantastic work for the community.
         | 
         | I've donated to some of your faculties in the past, and am
         | always pleased to see your teams recognized for their stellar
         | work.
         | 
         | Cheers =)
        
           | ysofunny wrote:
           | back in the day that was called the tithe. the real original
           | tithe. the voluntary tithe.
           | 
           | but that all went sideways when they made it mandatory and
           | rebranded it as "taxes".
           | 
           | sorry, I may still be hung up on a twitter response about
           | taxation so I'm a bit jumpy about it
        
             | ysofunny wrote:
             | or maybe what I cannot get over is the living within
             | lingering legacy of having had your "own" culture be made
             | up so you can be exploited
             | 
             | then realizing this, and finally (forever) being ostracized
             | by peers for not going with the grain
        
       | dhosek wrote:
       | Sifakas are among my favorite lemurs (which is not to say that
       | they're not _all_ my favorite lemurs). It is so adapted to
       | arboreal life that on the ground, it moves by hopping sideways.
       | See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s_sifaka for an
       | animated gif showing this.
        
       | gweinberg wrote:
       | I had never heard of fosa, so I looked them up. It turns out it
       | is usually spelled fossa, and as well as lemurs they also eat
       | tenrecs.
        
         | Cerium wrote:
         | Not a fan of Ubuntu 20.04? (Focal Fossa)
        
       | whyenot wrote:
       | Here in the US there has been the problem of endangered sea lions
       | eating endangered salmon below the Bonneville Dam. The salmon are
       | easy pickings for the sea lions because they tend to collect
       | below the dam as the migrate upriver to spawn.
       | 
       | https://www.npr.org/2008/05/06/90213669/endangered-seals-eat...
        
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