17 December 2005

King Kong Island Home Is Pure Fantasy, Ecology Experts Say

"...The notion that dinosaurs could survive on a tiny mid-oceanic island is preposterous," said John Terborgh, a professor of environmental science at Duke University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

"Islands, even moderately large ones, are notoriously devoid of large predators," he said. "The two largest predators on Cuba are a lizard and the red-tailed hawk. The whole notion of apex predators on islands is fantasy..."

Ummm... Fantasy? Make believe? Isn't King Kong a movie?

It's scary that National Geographic is treating the King Kong movie as if it were (was?) a documentary.

These guys should lighten up. I think they've been staring at those pictures of naked native ethnic women with nose rings a bit too much. It's almost Christmas (The Holidays, for the non-christians who celebrates ummm... Christmas) for christ's sake!