As if you wouldn't have clicked if the title was "Weird - fans at different prices"???
Now if I hadn't carelessly posted this thread as "Weird" I may not have come across this story about the long beaked echidna. An interesting read. A memorable experience for the expedition members especially the one who had a leech attached to his eyelid. I have vivid memories of an expedition some 52 years ago into the great rainforests of Sarawak to stay with one of the few remaining nomadic Punan groups still hunting with blowpipes and living as they had done for thousands of years. When we got back to Singapore there was a newspaper article about us having discovered a "lost tribe of headhunters." A wonderful oxymoron. You could hardly be headhunters if you were lost. And anway Punans weren't headhunters. During the trek we did meet a number of skulls in Dyak longhouses. All these indigenous people were delightful hosts.Or maybe this thread could be used for everything we come across that is weird in Indonesia? [I think there might already be a thread for that though]
That animal they found in Papua looks pretty weird, it's a cross between an anteater and a hedgehog:
Found at last: bizarre, egg-laying mammal finally rediscovered after 60 years | University of Oxford
More than sixty years after it was last recorded, an expedition team has rediscovered an iconic, egg-laying mammal in one of the most unexplored regions of the world. Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, named after famed broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, was captured for the first time in...www.ox.ac.uk
