![]() "The biologists were right all along," said study team member Matthew Huber, a paleoclimatologist at Indiana's Purdue University. Now, using computer simulations normally employed to study global warming, scientists think the currents might have been more favorable for drifitng to Madagascar 50 million years ago. One of the problems with the rafting theory was that ocean currents and prevailing winds around Madagascar today move east to west-away from, not toward, the island. The ancient refugees were carried to Madagascar by ocean currents, drifting on the open seas for several weeks before finally coming ashore, the model says.īased on genetic and ecosystem evidence, this theory makes more sense than the alternative, which holds that Madagascar's mammals arrived via a land bridge that was later destroyed by shifting continents. The model supports a 70-year-old theory that mainland mammals from southeastern Africa "rafted" to the island on large logs or floating carpets of vegetation after being swept out to sea during storms. (Related: "Three New Lemurs Discovered, Add to Madagascar's Diversity.") Marty, look, you've gotta be just a little bit more and.Only in the movies could a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, and a hippo wash ashore on Madagascar to start a new life.īut a new computer model suggests there may be a grain of truth in the animated fiction: The ancestors of ring-tailed lemurs, flying foxes, and other mammals that live on the Indian Ocean island got there aboard natural rafts. Do you honestly think I intended all of this to happen? You want me to say that I'm sorry? Is that what you want? OK, I'm. I'm ruined! I'm gone! I'm out of the business! It's your fault, Marty! You've ruined me!Ĭome on, Alex. San Diego! Now I'll have to compete with Shamu and his smug little grin. We're just going to find the people, get checked in and have this mess straightened out. ![]() I'm gonna strangle you, then bury you, dig you up and clone you and kill all your clones!Īnd then, I'm never talking to you again! This place is crackalacking! Oh, I could hang here. San Diego? What could be worse than San Diego? I'm telling you, this could be the San Diego Zoo. White sandy beaches, cleverly simulated natural environment, wide-open enclosures. He's probably out there lost and cold, confused. We gotta stop him from making the biggest mistake of his life. We've got a lost zebra on the way to Connecticut by now, and we're gonna need. I mean, we got to, we gotta, we got to call somebody! What are we going to do? We gotta, we gotta. You know how I have that bladder infection and I have to get up every two hours? I got up to pee and looked over at Marty's pen, which I usually don't do. This is a highly refined type of food thing. There's certainly none of this in the wild So one could take the train? Just Hypothetically. What you gotta do is you go over to Grand Central, and then you gotta take the Metro-North Tran. Well, I hear they have wide-open spaces in Connecticut. Back to your roots, clean air, wide-open spaces! The wild? Are you nuts? That is the worst ideal I've ever heard.Ĭome on, Just imagine going back to nature. You want some bad luck, I'll blab it out, But if you want to be safe, I'll keep my mouth shut.Ĭould you just tell us? I mean, really.
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