Comments on: My Sri Lankan adventure – a species list http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/18/my-sri-lankan-adventure-a-species-list/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Maija Karala http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/18/my-sri-lankan-adventure-a-species-list/#comment-14310 Maija Karala Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:51:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6355#comment-14310 You know, Ed, the first time I read through your list, I was so annoyed of pure jealousness that I couldn't even comment to congratulate you for an obviously awesome holiday. I spent two weeks in Sri Lanka with my parents a year ago. They are not nature people or, actually, any other sort than laying-on-the-beach -people. I got to see a fair number of wildlife, but nothing like your list. After this, I have heard stories one after another of people having the most wonderful trips to Sri Lanka and I'm getting more and more frustrated. It doesn't help that where I live, it has been months of dark, cloudy and freezing weather where one can't even go outsize without getting layers of ice on one's face. The most exiting animals around are blue tits. Soo... I'm not really happy for you, but wow. A wonderful trip. Also, the white-throated kingfisher is my favourite bird ever. You know, Ed, the first time I read through your list, I was so annoyed of pure jealousness that I couldn’t even comment to congratulate you for an obviously awesome holiday.

I spent two weeks in Sri Lanka with my parents a year ago. They are not nature people or, actually, any other sort than laying-on-the-beach -people. I got to see a fair number of wildlife, but nothing like your list. After this, I have heard stories one after another of people having the most wonderful trips to Sri Lanka and I’m getting more and more frustrated.

It doesn’t help that where I live, it has been months of dark, cloudy and freezing weather where one can’t even go outsize without getting layers of ice on one’s face. The most exiting animals around are blue tits.

Soo… I’m not really happy for you, but wow. A wonderful trip. Also, the white-throated kingfisher is my favourite bird ever.

]]> By: Robert S-R http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/18/my-sri-lankan-adventure-a-species-list/#comment-14309 Robert S-R Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:17:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6355#comment-14309 Wow! That's an impressive list. You or your wife must be a birdwatcher, then, because I'd have no idea how to begin to identify all of those birds. But then, I'd have at least a few invertebrates on *my* list... : ) Wow! That’s an impressive list. You or your wife must be a birdwatcher, then, because I’d have no idea how to begin to identify all of those birds. But then, I’d have at least a few invertebrates on *my* list… : )

]]> By: Ed Yong http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/18/my-sri-lankan-adventure-a-species-list/#comment-14308 Ed Yong Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:04:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6355#comment-14308 You can sign up for a whale-watching trip in Mirissa on the south coast. You can sign up for a whale-watching trip in Mirissa on the south coast.

]]> By: Vladimir Dinets http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/18/my-sri-lankan-adventure-a-species-list/#comment-14307 Vladimir Dinets Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:27:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6355#comment-14307 Sounds great! Where were the blue whales? Sounds great! Where were the blue whales?

]]> By: Mahesh http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/18/my-sri-lankan-adventure-a-species-list/#comment-14306 Mahesh Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:55:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6355#comment-14306 "I’ve never been to a country where the wildlife watching opportunities were so thick and easy. " You should visit South and North-east India sometime. :) “I’ve never been to a country where the wildlife watching opportunities were so thick and easy. ”

You should visit South and North-east India sometime. :)

]]> By: Kimberly Gerson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/18/my-sri-lankan-adventure-a-species-list/#comment-14305 Kimberly Gerson Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:41:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6355#comment-14305 This is great Ed. I spent 2 weeks in Sri Lanka on an Earthwatch expedition tracking Toque macaques. (First rule of Toque macaques: never set anything down you aren't prepared to lose.) Didn't amass quite the list of animals you did, but many of yours bring back great memories of my own sightings. No sea mammals for me, but I must say, the wild Asian elephant emerging silently from the forest nearly brought me to tears. And to this day I have never heard a symphony of birdsong that matches what we woke to every morning at 5am in the research camp. Anyway, am very much looking forward to your posts and photographs. This is great Ed. I spent 2 weeks in Sri Lanka on an Earthwatch expedition tracking Toque macaques. (First rule of Toque macaques: never set anything down you aren’t prepared to lose.) Didn’t amass quite the list of animals you did, but many of yours bring back great memories of my own sightings. No sea mammals for me, but I must say, the wild Asian elephant emerging silently from the forest nearly brought me to tears. And to this day I have never heard a symphony of birdsong that matches what we woke to every morning at 5am in the research camp. Anyway, am very much looking forward to your posts and photographs.

]]> By: rebecca http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/02/18/my-sri-lankan-adventure-a-species-list/#comment-14304 rebecca Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:05:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6355#comment-14304 Sweet Lord. I'm jealous. Sweet Lord. I’m jealous.

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