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...with news of astonishing unknown species and animals believed lost to history. No, it's not King Kong-last year's November-December expedition to Indonesia's remote Foja Mountains didn't include any movie stars, and the most amazing mammal they saw, the 15-kg Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo, would have a hard time wreaking havoc on Manhattan. But with claims to have discovered dozens of previously unreported species in a 10,000-sq-km expanse of virgin forest, the 11 American, Australian and Indonesian researchers may have found a biological blockbuster just the same. "Every decade there...
...Long-Lost Kin While the endangered GOLDEN-MANTLED TREE KANGAROO is known to exist on a single mountain in neighboring Papua New Guinea, this was the first time it had been found in Indonesia. The explorers say the Indonesian population could prove critical to the survival of the species...
...Many who don't find them lovable still acknowledge their usefulness. About 4,000 years after arriving from Asia, dingoes have carved out an ecological role - research suggests that they keep down feral cat and fox numbers, and can also rein in kangaroo populations. And there's little dispute that they're preferable to hybrids, which tend to be bigger, more aggressive and breed twice a year, rather than the dingo's one annual litter. On his 5,700-sq.-km Napperby Station outside Alice Springs, in a bad year cattleman Roy Chisholm can lose 1% of his calves...
...Then - snap! - the film becomes as taut as the rope Jarratt's kangaroo shooter uses to tow the tourists back to his isolated desert camp on the pretext of fixing their car. Around a campfire, he tells his captive audience: "Fair dinkum, I get around. You never know where I'll pop up." Almost an hour into Wolf Creek, the pressure has become almost unbearable. Which is exactly how first-time writer-director Greg Mclean wants it. When he learns that at a recent screening, five people left the theater around this point in the movie, and only four came...
...inscribed,’ if you will, with the very constructed-ness of gender.”Haraway: “Oh I certainly will construct your gender, you tired old feminist monkey. Why don’t we take this outside and my half-machine, half-kangaroo bodyguards will code your body ambiguous, bitch.”The upcoming remake of “The Hills Have Eyes” could never provoke that kind of discussion. But even if theory-infused body horror isn’t necessarily your thing, it’s hard to argue satisfaction...