IT IS morbid, but true, that one of the ways survivors of natural disasters are found is by bringing out bloodhounds that have been trained to find the dead.
The vast region of boreal Canada where the tar sands are found is an even bigger carbon bomb than the Powder River coal.
Their main enemy wherever they are found is humans; in South America the jaguar is a principal predator, and in Asia the tiger is another predator.
While a few groups such as rodents and bats account for a significant proportion of the numbers, the consistency with which large and showy mammals are found is astounding.
The humid coastal plain in the east, running between the Gulf of Hammamet and the Gulf of Gabes, where Tunisia's thriving olive plantations are found, is the most agriculturally productive of these coarse-textured soil areas.
Even Ocean View, the housing estate where the bodies of the Spain family – two children, who have been smothered, their father, who was stabbed, and their mother who is now in hospital with multiple stab wounds – are found is an unsettling place.
