Oh, cool. I remember that for a while they had a lot of stories about the various escpades of gibbons in central Africa, all written by the same guy. They use the same stock photograph of the same gibbon each time. I'm sure he should be due a lot of royalties. I wonder if journalists on smaller desks just have a particular interest in some kind of story (perhaps they're afraid of insects, or like monkeys, or something like that) and their filings tend to show bias as a result of that? Or perhaps in some cases it's that an organisation like the International Center for Gibbon Studies, Santa Clarita, Cal have press people who know particular journalists. I can't find a Kazakh institute of Etymology but I guess it takes only one interested doctor. Or perhaps the Kazakh climate is particularly well suited to these nasties? I'm not sure what it might be, perhaps the temperature is ideal for cold-blooded animals of the size and anatomy of invertibrates, or perhaps some big sink of insects (um, birds, I guess) has recently been destroyed because of, um, development or some bioamplified insecticide, or something?
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Date: 2004-07-04 04:28 am (UTC)My dad was born in Kazakhstan. I think locust invasions are a pretty usual occurence.. They are sometimes as big as a middle finger, freaky