[AZ-Observing] Re: The Laufer Book
- From: Stan Gorodenski <stanlep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:04:37 -0700
I apologize all. I clicked on the wrong discussion group address.
Sorry.
Stan
On 4/1/2010 8:57 PM, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
> I just finished reading a book, ”The Dangerous World of Butterflies” by
> Peter Laufer, Ph.D. There is a tremendous amount of fluff to read
> through to get to some of the main points he is trying to make, or maybe
> I consider as fluff what others would find valuable reading. He covered
> a number of different aspects of the dangers in the butterfly world. One
> of them was about the ‘criminals’. The thing I found disturbing about
> his reporting is that he talked to all kinds of Game and Fish people and
> other professionals regarding the Kojima case (who was arrested in
> California and spent some time in a detention center in LA), and the
> Skalski-Kral-Grinnell case, but he never interviewed any of these
> individuals, to my knowledge. I think it would have made a better book
> had he done so. There was one alleged violator of collecting laws in
> India that he had some email correspondence with, but that person was
> from Denmark and was also a Ph.D. like himself.
>
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