Hey Bob, yeah, I am aware of the
Saola. In fact,
let's get a little off track here from Musa chunii, the wildlife traders, especially the
illegal ones get the weirdest things and they are quickly snapped up by collectors. I know because I was in their network once. One thing about them is their distrust of the academics who may reveal them in their writing so most of these new finds go unnoticed. During my time, we were trying to figure out a new hi-yellow tree monitor found in Sabah which sold for $8,000 a head but to no avail. I also came across a new species of cobra in Thailand which is an intermediate between the normal cobra and the king cobra. Lastly there was the talk about a King Cobra with the
girth of almost 10" found near the mountainous border of Myanmar and Thailand. I believe this is no myth because it came from a very experience aborigine snake collector who was so startled and scared by the appearance of the snake that he fell and rolled down a slope. Ahh.. there are so many stories I can tell you guys which seem unbelievable!
