IAS on Facebook
IAS on Instagram
|
![](/images/navbartop.jpg)
IAS Aroid Quasi Forum
About Aroid-L
This is a continuously updated archive of the Aroid-L mailing list in a forum format - not an actual Forum. If you want to post, you will still need to register for the Aroid-L mailing list and send your postings by e-mail for moderation in the normal way.
The Saola and the Araceae
|
From: ted.held at us.henkel.com on 2006.12.15 at 15:36:58(14943)
This is a distraction from our usual
fare, but I saw an interesting article on the little-known saola, an exotic
bovine. The current Science magazine (December 1 cover date) contains a
picture and written reference of an unidentified Araceae, which the rare
animal is believed to eat. The saola, also known as the Vu Quang ox, is
the last new large animal to have been discovered. It was unknown to science
before 1992. Although they say it is related to the cow, it looks more
like an antelope. The few remaining individuals live in Vietnam and Laos.
The article contains some interesting information on the animal and its
bleak prospects, but nothing about the aroid save the following:
"The forest ecologist finds safe
footing on the slick slope and grabs a handful of broad, dark-green Araceae
leaves. 'Saola like to eat these," [Do] Tuoc says. 'At least, we have
seen bite marks.'"
There is a photograph of Mr. Tuoc holding
some nondescript taro-like plants in each hand (fibrous roots, perhaps
30 cm petiole height).
The saola diet is unknown, save for
the hints that it might like tucking into a luscious aroid. Much of the
remainder of the article is a discussion, pro and con, of the idea of attempting
to clone the beast in an attempt to preserve it.
Anyone having a liking for extremely
rare animals can e-mail me separately and I will send them a pirated scan
of the article. I don't think anyone will mind this violation of copyright
as long as we don't sell copies.
Ted.
| +More |
ted.held@us.henkel.com_______________________________________________
Aroid-l mailing list
Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l
|
|
From: "D. Christopher Rogers" <crogers at ecoanalysts.com> on 2006.12.15 at 17:27:05(14944)
Dear Ted,
I know
that few mammals eat aroid leaves due to calcium oxalate crystals (likened to
eating a handful of tiny needles) or various chemical defenses (see http://www.ivis.org/advances/Beasley/cpt13c/ivis.pdf
for example).
In the paper:
Dung, V.V. et
al. 1994. Discovery and conservation of the Vu Quang ox in Vietnam. Oryx 28:16,
the saola is reported browsing on figs and other riparian shrubs.
I am curious as
to what aroid was observed with “bite marks”, and whether they were bite marks
actually from this animal.
Happy days,
Christopher
| +More |
AUTOTEXTLIST \s "E-mail
Signature" D. Christopher Rogers
Invertebrate Ecologist/Taxonomist
((,///////////=====<
EcoAnalysts, Inc.
(530) 406-1178
166 Buckeye Street
Woodland CA 95695 USA
● Invertebrate Taxonomy
● Invertebrate Ecological Studies
● Bioassessment and Study Design
● Endangered Invertebrate Species
● Zooplankton
● Periphyton/ Phytoplankton
Moscow, ID ● Bozeman, MT ● Woodland, CA ● Neosho, MO ●
Selinsgrove, PA
www.ecoanalysts.com
-----Original Message-----
From:
aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com]On Behalf Of ted.held@us.henkel.com
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006
7:37 AM
To: Discussion of aroids
Subject: [Aroid-l] The Saola and
the Araceae
This is a distraction from our usual
fare, but I saw an interesting article on the little-known saola, an exotic
bovine. The current Science magazine (December 1 cover date) contains a picture
and written reference of an unidentified Araceae, which the rare animal is
believed to eat. The saola, also known as the Vu Quang ox, is the last new
large animal to have been discovered. It was unknown to science before 1992.
Although they say it is related to the cow, it looks more like an antelope. The
few remaining individuals live in Vietnam and Laos. The article contains some
interesting information on the animal and its bleak prospects, but nothing
about the aroid save the following:
"The forest ecologist finds
safe footing on the slick slope and grabs a handful of broad, dark-green
Araceae leaves. 'Saola like to eat these," [Do] Tuoc says. 'At least, we
have seen bite marks.'"
There is a photograph of Mr. Tuoc
holding some nondescript taro-like plants in each hand (fibrous roots, perhaps
30 cm petiole height).
The saola diet is unknown, save for
the hints that it might like tucking into a luscious aroid. Much of the
remainder of the article is a discussion, pro and con, of the idea of attempting
to clone the beast in an attempt to preserve it.
Anyone having a liking for extremely
rare animals can e-mail me separately and I will send them a pirated scan of
the article. I don't think anyone will mind this violation of copyright as long
as we don't sell copies.
Ted.
ted.held@us.henkel.com
_______________________________________________
Aroid-l mailing list
Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l
|
|
From: "Peter Boyce" <botanist at malesiana.com> on 2006.12.16 at 05:00:43(14946)
Hi TedWas interested to see your posting
on the saola and aroids. In the late 1990's I was involved with a UNDP/Lao
Forest Department project training parataxonomists in the northern part of the
Lao PDR as part of a NTFP project funded by UNDP & Danida. While in Lao I
met up with Bill Robichaud, then of WSC, who was studying saola and was one of
the first westerners to successfully get photographs from camera traps. Bill
asked me to identify plants that he had collected from saola grazing sites and
these proved to Schismatoglottis calyptrata (Roxb.) Zoll. &
Moritzi, a variable and widespread species and is common in everwet forest in
IndoChina (its full range is from tropical northeastern Myanmar to New
Guinea).It now seems likely that the saola's primary range is the remote
and very precipitous, not to say very wet mountains along the border between
Bolikhamxay and Nghe An provinces in Lao & Vietnam respectively with
increasing evidence that it most saola and saola habitat in Laos probably lie
outside of Nakai-Nam Theun, in areas of Bolikhamxay Province (and to a lesser
extent Savannakhet and Xekong Provinces) the area (Nakai-Nam Theun)
traditionally considered its main rangeReverting to the aroid aspect,
here in Sarawak leaves of Schismatoglottis motleyana (Schott) Engl. are
occasionally sold as a vegetable. used to make ulam and are favoured for the
astringent/sour taste they impart. In Sabah I have seen leaves of another
Schismatoglottis (possibly S. venusta A.Hay) sold for similar
purposes.
Peter
| +More |
----- Original
Message ----- From: ted.held@us.henkel.com To: Discussion of aroids
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 11:36 PMSubject: [Aroid-l] The Saola and
the AraceaeThis is a distraction from our usual fare, but I saw
an interesting article on the little-known saola, an exotic bovine. The current
Science magazine (December 1 cover date) contains a picture and written
reference of an unidentified Araceae, which the rare animal is believed to eat.
The saola, also known as the Vu Quang ox, is the last new large animal to have
been discovered. It was unknown to science before 1992. Although they say it is
related to the cow, it looks more like an antelope. The few remaining
individuals live in Vietnam and Laos. The article contains some interesting
information on the animal and its bleak prospects, but nothing about the aroid
save the following: "The forest ecologist finds safe footing on the
slick slope and grabs a handful of broad, dark-green Araceae leaves. 'Saola like
to eat these," [Do] Tuoc says. 'At least, we have seen bite marks.'"
There is a photograph of Mr. Tuoc holding some nondescript taro-like
plants in each hand (fibrous roots, perhaps 30 cm petiole height). The
saola diet is unknown, save for the hints that it might like tucking into a
luscious aroid. Much of the remainder of the article is a discussion, pro and
con, of the idea of attempting to clone the beast in an attempt to preserve it.
Anyone having a liking for extremely rare animals can e-mail me
separately and I will send them a pirated scan of the article. I don't think
anyone will mind this violation of copyright as long as we don't sell copies.
Ted.
ted.held@us.henkel.com_______________________________________________Aroid-l
mailing
listAroid-l@gizmoworks.comhttp://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l
_______________________________________________
Aroid-l mailing list
Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l
|
|
Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.
|
|