Naked Science Forum
Life Sciences => The Environment => Topic started by: thedoc on 27/09/2011 10:03:09
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It’s pretty easy to get lost when you venture deep into the Jungle of Lambusango on the Isle of Buton, just off the South East coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia - a fact that I discovered more than once and to the amusement of the local guides with whom I worked during my summer on the Island. The purpose of my trip was to investigate the ranging behaviour of a small carnivore called a Malay civet. This species (and in particular the population I was studying) makes for a very good study model as they are the largest mammalian predator on Buton Island...
Read the article (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/i-m-a-civet-get-me-out-of-here/) then tell us what you think...