Will Orangutans be Extinct by 2023?
(Assuming, of course, I get the go ahead from jespah
)
Orangutans
Orangutans will not become extinct if bred in captivity. Wild orangutans are expected to be gone by 2023.
http://eces.org/ec/extinction/orangutan.shtml
BumbleBeeBoogie
BBB, that was a great huge find. Following is a brief quote and link I had initially used to create the question:
National Geographics wrote:Orangutans' days in the wild may be numbered unless something drastic occurs to halt the pace of illegal logging?-and soon, according to researchers.
"At the current rate of habitat destruction, orangutans could be extinct in the wild in ten to twenty years," said Cheryl Knott, an anthropologist at Harvard University.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/0930_030930_orangutanthreat.html#main
It is quite disturbing, next question please
BTW, for those not in the know, orang-(h)utan means "man of the forest".
How did the Boomerang get its name?
How did the Boomerang get its name and what does it mean?
Boomerang is the name given to a "returning stick". It's an English word derived from ?'bou-mar-rang' from the language of the Turuwal people of the George's River near Port Jackson. The Turuwal people were a sub-group of the Dharug language group which extended from the shores of Sydney (between Port Jackson and Port Hacking) in the east, to nearly Katoomba in the Blue Mountains to the west. Many of the Aboriginal words we use in English are from the Dharug language, including boomerang, waratah, wallaby, dingo, kookaburra, koala and woomera.
There is no such thing as "the Aboriginal language"; there were in fact between 500 and 600 different Aboriginal languages at the time of European settlement in 1788, each with its own terms for tools and weapons.
The returning boomerang was unknown to Aboriginal peoples in most of the Northern Territory, all of Tasmania, half of South Australia and the northern parts of Queensland and Western Australia. Roughly 60% of Aboriginal peoples used both returning boomerangs and non-returning hunting sticks, and therefore had words for them; a further 10% had only non-returning hunting sticks, and the remaining 30% used neither.
Wilson
Wilson, your info is a good start in answering the question, but its not the final answer. Keep searching.
I chose this question because there is so much myth connected to the Boomerang name that I thought it would make an interesting search for the actual name and its meaning.
BumbleBeeBoogie
Ever seen a hunting stick thrown? It just keeps going, and going, and going.
You must give a link proving your answer, too!
Article ?- What is a Boomerang?
-An investigation of the word boomerang in Aboriginal and English languages:
http://www.boomerang.org.au/articles/article-what-is-a-boomerang.html
"Boomerang" is the Wiradjuri language word for Clap Sticks
http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/schoollibraries/teaching/binna/binnawds.htm
Hey, are we gonna move on, or keep returning to this boomerang thing? :wink:
Well since it was iffy, does anybody accept my answer?
If you do, I'll go on.
The boomerang answer
I can't provide the link to the following info because it contains personal information from another forum. My Aussie friend, an astronomer in Oz did the additional research for me.
"BOOMERanG is a perfectly respectable scientific instrument, and by no
means a name invented by me, but by some chaps at CalTech, I think.
It's an acronym for Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic
Radiation ANd Geophysics. If you think it looks like they set up
the name to get the acronym on purpose, you're probably right.
It seems every new astronomical instrument or idea needs to have a cool
acronym for a name these days (thus astronomical instruments BEAST,
COBRA, SUSI, MAX and the list goes on; and new concept names WIMPs
MACHOS, GUTs, TOE). It really gets quite silly, as you can see.
And as to the more usual boomerangs, it appears that most ancient
cultures used at some time or other a curved throwing stick, which if
thrown well, would return to the thrower. So it must be a relatively
easily deduced concept for bright sparks amongst ancient hunters.
The australian version seems fixed in the worlds view of returning
throwing sticks probably because the australian aboriginal peoples
were still using them most recently, when everywhere else in the
world they passed out of popular use many centuries ago."
Oh, THAT Boomerang!
Well, I guess you get to go again!
fealola
fealola, sneaky rascal ain't I?
BumbleBeeBoogie
I'll be on guard next time!!
From the Nile to Lake Moeris to the pyramids
From the Nile to Lake Moeris to the pyramids: an invention
BumbleBeeBoogie
Do you mean a canal or an artificial lake?
http://www.exclassics.com/martyrdom/martc11.htm
PS Bill - I haven't square-danced since 6th grade, I think.
Belonged to a square dance club for a couple of years. My forever and I had a ball.
