Lenny Flank wrote:
> Piorokrat wrote:
>
>>
>> This appears to have started with David Horn challenging Dr Gastrich
>> to a discussion of Rift Valley Cichlids, then Constance calling on
>> my authority as an ichthyologist
>
>
> You are not an ichthyologist. Your opinion on ichthyology is no more
> authoritative than your opinion about theology.
Where's your sense of humour?
>> If we can confine the discussion to the Cichlids of lake
>> Tanganyika, then I'll be happy to expand on what I've kept, what
>> I've bred and what I've read.
>
> What does any of that have to do with evolution.
Where's your sense of humour?
>>
>> The question which interests me here more immediately is, can a
>> fishkeeper be an ichthyologist or not? If we look at some of the
>> greatest ichthyologists, most of them keep fishes in aquariums,
>> although not all as their hobby.
>
> What does any of that have to do with evolution.
Where's your sense of humour?
>>
>> In short, when fishkeepers and museum ichthyologists meet, there is
>> a lot to talk about, but also no shortage of friction also.
>>
>
> What does any of that have to do with evolution.
Where's your sense of humour?
>
>> In the end what is useful, what can be applied out of ichthyology is
>> what it can give to other fields. The museum ichthyologists tend to
>> be given grants to study things like cod's brains, because that
>> could help our chances of controlling food stocks. They are not
>> being paid to provide info for the aquarium hobby, and yet our hobby
>> is a multi million pound industry too, but has to pretty much look
>> after itself.
>>
>
> What does any of that have to do with evolution.
Where's your sense of humour?
>
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> Lenny Flank
> "There are no loose threads in the web of life..."
Now *that* is truth.
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"...because the Big Spider can see more than we do."
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