There is a world somewhere between reality and fiction. Although ignored by many, it is very real and so are those living in it. This forum is about the natural world. Here, wild animals will be heard and respected. The forum offers a glimpse into an unknown world as well as a room with a view on the present and the future. Anyone able to speak on behalf of those living in the emerald forest and the deep blue sea is invited to join.
I very much appreciated your post and I am more then happy to forget the issues you raised.
Concerning data, I cannot and do not definitely disclose unpublished data that have been given to me by the first or a second hand source. Unpublished proprietary data have a value and I totally respect it. I tend to apply the same principle to my own data regardless if they have served, will serve or may serve a purpose or not. I am sure you can understand it.
My aim to participate and contribute in a forum is to post conclusions and to argue conclusions of other people. If somebody else’s conclusions do not match mine and I feel he may have some good reasons, I do not really need his sources and data. I look mine, I may look for more and better ones, I revised and go through all my methodologies and considerations and I try to understand if it is me who is not fully correct if not even substantially wrong. If considerations, conclusions and suggestions by somebody else have been useful to me I am grateful to him, if mine have been useful to somebody else and contributed to open his mind I am glad and gratified.
The bad side of all of that is the unnecessary wall that sometimes you have to face, the misinterpretation, the twist of statements and the fact that you write something that can be easily undisputably checked and this is not done, and after a few posts you find again the same wrong initial statement.
BODY SIZE AND MASS OF NGORONGORO CRATER LIONS
