标题: 《Last chance to see-- 》作者：- Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-7-5 08:34 标题: 《Last chance to see-- 》作者：- Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine【EPU Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine Last Chance to See ... For Alain le Garsmeur With special thanks to Sue Freestone and Lisa Glass for editing, research and being there CONTENTS Twig Technology Here Be Chickens Leopardskin Pillbox Hat Heartbeats in the Night Blind Panic Rare, or Medium Rare? Sifting Through the Embers Mark's Last Word ... Twig Technology This isn't at all what I expected. In 1985, by some sort of journalistic accident I was sent to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine to look for an almost extinct form of lemur called the aye-aye. None of the three of us had met before. I had never met Mark, Mark had never met me, and no one, apparently, had seen an aye-aye in years. This was the idea of the Observer Colour Magazine, to throw us all in at the deep end. Mark is an extremely experienced and knowledgeable zoologist, working at that time for the World Wildlife Fund, and his role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which L was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non- zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise. All the aye-aye had to do was do what aye- ayes have been doing for millions of years - sit in a tree and hide. The aye-aye is a nocturnal lemur. It is a very strange-looking creature that seems to have been assembled from bits of other animals. It looks a little like a large cat with a bat's