ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

[peter]

(02-09-2015, 01:50 PM)'brotherbear' Wrote: Peter, I wish to thank you for post 352 which I found to be very informative. I found nothing there that I disagree with. As for poster Ursus arctos middendorffi, I highly respect him and always appreciated his input, even though much of it was over my head. Just curious, are both Ursus and yourself college professors?

 

After I graduated, I turned to music and mixed it with research for a friend, who's a lawyer. Money and all that, but I have to add I like research. Ursus was busy graduating when I saw him. A lack of time was the main reason we couldn't start the forum we had in mind. Another important reason was a lack of skill. It takes skill to start, maintain and develop a forum.

Sanjay is a web-designer and has the skill needed. He also is interested in animals and knows about forums. This is why I decided to give it a try. Sanjay is doing a great job. This forum also has well-trained mods really interested in animals. A very good team, I think.

I've always been interested in animals, but decided to keep it to myself at a young age and never changed my mind. When I had the time needed to take another step, I visited Dr. P.J.H. van Bree of the Zoological Museum Amsterdam. Van Bree was a friend of V. Mazak. He, Mazak and Colin Groves wrote an article on Bali tiger skulls. Dr. van Bree, born on Sumatra, told me all I had to know about skulls and research. He opened a lot of doors of museums and offered to help me out on the book. Most unfortunately, it wasn't to be. One day, when I went to the Museum to see him, his collegues told me he was gone. They couldn't contact him anymore. I tried a few times, but didn't succeed. He had vanished from the face of the earth. 

When I first met Van Bree, he was old. If I had decided to wait one more year, I would never have met him. Dr. P. J.H. van Bree was a very kind, open-minded, productive and well-informed man right till the end. A man prepared to share what he knew as well. To me and many others, he was someone who made a difference. Quite something, I'd say. Reply