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PIGGLESHAM'S LEMUR GUIDE
INACCURATE, CRITICS DECLARE
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IMITATION TREE MARKET
UNAFFECTED BY RUMORS
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(UPI) Hellmouth, AZ. Rumors
to the effect that Dr.
Jerry Archbibble, Director of the Hellmouth Muni-
cipal Zoo and Exotic Animal Crematorium, will
soon be fired as a direct result of his dealings with
Mayor Pruner's Imitation Tree Farm, and that the
imitation tree market is on the verge of collapse,
remain just that, rumors. The imitation tree market,
for the past decade centered in Hellmouth, has
been holding steady, and there is no evidence that
any controversy regarding imitation trees or the
zoo's director lies in the town's immediate future.
Imitation trees were first
introduced into the
United States in 1984 by local Hellmouth entrepre-
neur Frank Pruner. Mr. Pruner went on to estab-
lish a prosperous gobo root farm and was elected
as the Mayor of Hellmouth in 1989, replacing Col.
John Barnsworth Beazleton, USMC Ret., who died
of gobo root poisoning. |
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| Primate
Nooz is published on the 10th of every
month, except for those months when there isn't an issue,
and except for those months when it is pub- lished on the
20th, by the Ralph A. Bennett Teasdale Corp., Dr. Peter Pan
Troglodytes, President-in-Chief. Copies are shipped to
every major zoo and animal testing facility in the U.S. and
air-dropped over much of Africa, Asia and South America (except
for Costa Rica). Back issues may be obtained (or possibly
not) by writing to: Primate Nooz Back Issue Office,
c/o Pruner's Imitation Tree Farm, Hellmouth, AZ. |
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(Reuters) London, U.K. One
of the most comprehen-
sive and authoritative research works to be published in
this century, Pigglesham's Comprehensive and Auth-
oritative Guide to the Mouse Lemurs, has come under
severe criticism in British scientific journals over the
past several months, shaking the very foundation of
lemuroid taxonomy and calling into question some of
our most cherished notions about Madagascar and its
relationship with the African continent. The Guide,
published in twenty-seven volumes, was compiled be-
ginning in 1932 by Sir Henry Wadston Peepsworth
Pigglesham, self-styled lemur expert and a driving force
behind British primatology, and it has remained one of
the standards in the field ever since.
According to L. Patrick Rodney-Cecil,
editor of the
prestigious The British Review of Primates, primatol-
ogists and other interested lay people from Bali-Bali to
Cheesequake have been sending in scathing letters,
citing many innacurate measurements, fudged statistical
analyses, misidentified elements, and unsupported and
unwarranted conclusions. Dr. Rodney-Cecil offered
numerous examples of mistakes in methodology that
undermine if not negate virtually all of Mr. Pigglesham's
theories.
It is a mystery how his work has
been so universally
praised until recently. |
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