Friday, August 10, 2007

Questions during presentation

Hi, all.
OK, most of you (I mean my students) have presented and have faced questions and comments. So, That's how it feels like. Nothing much, really. But I urge all of you to take note on all of the comments. They are useful.

In doing a research, not only what you do in the field counts, the way you do it must be properly documented and explained. For you guys who are doing crocodiles, I think there were questions on how you would take samples (tissue) from the babies. I think, you must be able to explain how you would catch them babies. Either by hand, using a net or using a nose (you know what a nose is? What it is not is the thing that has two holes just above your upper lips).

Do some more reading on the things that you are going to measure.. tail, TL, SV. I still think that we have some specimens of baby crocs in Borneensis. You might want to go and see them.. look at the tail scutes, count them, and then, plan if you can do anything to mark them babies either according to sex, sex and date of capture, numerical marks... I don't know. You guys think about it. I'm sure you're more curious than I am and it should be that way! I have passed my monkey curiosity a long time ago.

Hamid.

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