They've since been drafted to establish populations in seven more locations, all of them isolated to ensure that the birds stay out of the jaws
of stoats, dogs, and cats.
but then you do keep strange company, a rabett coming to the rescue
of a stoat??
Not exact matches
Scottish oats company,
Stoats, has announced the launch
of Toasted Oaty Flakes, a wholegrain cereal with premium oats that have been cooked and roasted.
In fact, it's called End
of the World, and it's packaged in a taxidermied squirrel or
stoat (weasel).
Wallach and colleagues gathered research on the life cycles
of more than a hundred species
of mammalian carnivores — from polar bears and panthers to skunks and
stoats — and documented examples
of large predators that apparently regulate their own numbers.
The most likely explanation is that kiwis do not need vision because
of where and how they live: they are active at night, and their habitat offers plenty
of food and no predators, apart from introduced animals such as
stoats.
A year ago, the New Zealand government announced a bold plan to rid the country
of a trio
of invasive predators — brush - tailed possums, rats, and
stoats — that threatens native birds.
«They face the dark side
of the animal world, represented by rats, weasels,
stoats, foxes, and their villain allies, in the day - to - day struggle
of good versus evil, life versus death.»
We found that three canids (including the red fox and feral dogs), seven members
of the weasel family or mustelids (such as
stoats), five rodents, two primates, two mongooses, two marsupials and nine species from other families negatively impact threatened species.
227 Hank Roberts and his Columbia Law links via WC
Stoat — always good to share,
of course.
Re # 364: FYI a couple
of years ago someone (Eli or
Stoat IIRC) worked those Huang papers over.
Over the weekend, William Connolley, the prickly and provocative author
of the climate - focused blog
Stoat, warned against overinterpretation
of Annan's comments by climate «septics» (his spelling).
William M. Connolley, who blogs at
Stoat, has posted a somewhat skeptical first look at the paper (and blistering critique
of some
of the other analyses
of it) that includes these thoughts:
Well he is very well demonized by Realclimate (which felt the need to edit some
of is comment), climate progress (who won't publish his comment),
Stoat and others.
And what was the class review and individual impressions
of Prometheus, RC, Deltoid,
Stoat and some
of the other blogs?
Look at the hypocrisy at
stoat of William Connoly and james Annan.
John Mashey writes [and Eli
Stoats]: --------------------------------- The Journal
of Scientific Exploration IS NO PARODY [Would be to God it was] HWQDAJ (He Who Quotes from a Dog Astrology Journal (well, He Who Must Not Be Named is on the screens again) would never quote a parody for crucial support for his book, would he?
and a bunch
of the «in crowd»
of blogs that discuss climate science, such as
Stoat (the first one, thanks William, but does my abbreviation in your blogroll have to be «Ill»?
Comrade Lysenko, The great transmuter, Our brilliant tutor, No brain astuter, He gives us wheat from oats, He gives us sheep from goats, And by inbreeding
stoats New forms
of life promotes, And in a thousand ways Nature herself obeys Whatever he may decree.
Stoat has arisen to contemplate the libel suit that Irene Meichsner brought (and won two out
of three falls) from Stefan Rahmstorf.
I see that
Stoat has the first installment
of a pleasurably snarky response.
Let Roger Revelle Speak for Himself Blame the Lab Lemming for the title change (see comments)
Stoat has stumbled back across the S. Fred Singer malloying
of Roger Revelle and the associated SLAPP suit against Justin Lancaster by Singer.
Some things speak for themselves but Eli would remind gentle readers that the reason the bunny risked a couple
of beers with
Stoat was that the easiest place to reach a new extreme from is from a new extreme, especially if the system has some memory.
Stoat often provides excellent illustrations
of this.
I mentioned the ANDrill story in that thread at
Stoat, among several others I thought interesting on the lines
of rapid change under old ice.
I read Nic's defense here, but I did not see that he refuted the argument I made on his estimate
of CS on
Stoat: http://scienceblogs.com/
stoat/2012/12/20/people-if-you-want-to-argue-with-stoats-first-read-enough-to-be-a-weasel-parrots-neednt-apply/#comment-24749 — It seems to me that Lewis» calculations are reasonable, but they lowball temperature change, ignore ocean heat absorption below 2000 m, and high - ball radiative forcing.
Has Connolley slowed his posting frequency at
Stoat in recent years because he's tired
of moronic clones from WUWT and Wikipedia (and AUE) invading the comments?
Come to think
of it that would be a good idea for a post at
Stoat: How do the various types
of models relate to each other?
(
Stoat: I surely get a free # 100 sea - ice bet
of my choosing for this — wholly unsolicited — comment.
Seed topics: The genealogy
of climate models, how to compare different greenhouse gases, whether a 2 deg C temperature target makes sense (
Stoat has already weighed in), or reflections on the Nenana Ice classic (which has just concluded for this year).
Given
Stoats view
of Brunn, this may be a twofer for him.
Stoat points to the graph
of Arctic sea ice anomaly which is lagging behind last years, however it is clear that this year will at a minimum be the second lowest year, if not the lowest.
The iceman leaveth Eli and
Stoat have been going back and forth, with
Stoat bleating (what IS the cry
of the Bellette?)
http://vimeo.com/musicstore/track/178515/climate-septic-by-baba-brinkman A good takedown
of the septics (
Stoat's term, which remains useful).