Friday, January 11, 2013

[jules' pics] Guide to Hawaiian wildlife #3

Cute monkeys are everywhere on Oahu. The tufted great apes are ubiquitous - the little malnourished ones leap and swim in the ocean, while the big fat ones lie beached on the shore. In the trees, however, other species can be found:
Gibbon
Lemur
Gibbon


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8 comments:

  1. David B. Benson13/1/13 3:39 am

    All imported aliens.

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  2. David B. Benson14/1/13 5:33 am

    Classic cars to be auctioned by tax bureau
    http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/100467.php

    You, too, can own one.

    :-)

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  3. jules14/1/13 8:38 pm

    Wow. But the things you own end up owning you....?

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  4. James Annan14/1/13 8:54 pm

    David,

    Yebbut it all raises the question of how many years (or generations) of residence qualifies one as a native. In the USA, 2nd generation immigrants seem to count. In Japan, you will still be a foreigner if your great-great-grandparents came over a century ago :-)

    We all came from somewhere!

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  5. David B. Benson15/1/13 12:58 am

    Definition of native
    noun

    a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not
    from
    http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/native

    Don't know how that goes in Japanese...

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  6. James Annan15/1/13 6:22 am

    So probably many of these "imported" plant and animals are natives after all :-)

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  7. David B. Benson16/1/13 1:01 am

    Plants and animals are persons now?

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  8. James Annan16/1/13 9:23 am

    I think we have come full circle...

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