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Re: Strange Koala News
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Sat, 9 Feb 2002 21:36:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:

  "International Koala Stud Book?"  Are we looking forward to competition
  koala racing or something? (I can't imagine how much fun *that* would
  be).  Either that, or I'm picturing the Koala equivalent of beefcake
  magazines.  Either way, it's a little bit disturbing.

You'll probably find there's an "international stud book" of some kind for
any species being bred for / by zoos, etc, to ensure good bloodlines in the
captive population.

ROSCO



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  Strange Koala News
 
I was digging around on CNN today, and found an interesting story about San Francisco's "late" koala (died at 19, apparently the oldest known?) (URL) But the part that caught my eye was this: "Zoo officials said that according to the International (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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