Ghosts of the rainforest

• Autores: Josephine R. Chandler
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2980, 2014, págs. 42-45
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It takes less than three hours to travel from the busy tarmac of Cairns Airport, back 100 million years to Queensland's primeval Wet Tropics rainforest. By the time the sprawling malls and suburban estates have given way to blue sky and sugar cane, they have already rewound several decades. Veering inland, they swim against the tourist tide streaming towards the Great Barrier Reef. As jungle encloses them, the notion that they have crossed into a more primitive dimension is encouraged by road signs cautioning drivers to watch out for southern cassowaries--stroppy, flightless birds sometimes likened to prehistoric turkeys. Here, Chandler details the white lemuroid ringtail possum that was last spotted in 2010.