From: yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome 
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
	<1992Aug16.161803.24687@utkux1.utk.edu>
	<1992Aug16.162455.24849@utkux1.utk.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 92 15:14:02

In article <1992Aug16.162455.24849@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>Oh, I forgot to mention the flock of vultures that hangs out in the parking
>lot of my building at the Oak Ridge National Lab.  I kid you not!  They
>get sighted once in while.

At Kennedy Space Center, vultures were the dominant form of aerial
fauna.  You could always see a few circling above the headquarters
building and the parking lots -- especially near the new building
being constructed to house space station workers.  They would also be
frequently spotted feeding on the abundant roadkill on KSC roadways,
and waddling with barely adequate speed out of the way of oncoming
traffic.

But the truly unique members of KSC wildlife were the alligators that
inhabited the various drainage ditches around the center.  In
particular, one eight-foot-long gator was a permanent resident of one
of the ditches on the adjacadent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.  (I
think his name was Charlie, or something like that.)  KSC employees
were fond of visiting Charlie during their lunch hour and trying to
attract his attention... while standing well outside of the ditch.

In addition, the area was well-populated with snakes, lizards, and
swarms of hungry mosquitoes -- some of which were reported to carry
encephalitis...

So, to update your survey:

Score:      Vultures   Ravens   Deer/Ticks    Barbie/Ken    Rednecks  

Los Alamos   N/A        x        N/A           N/A           N/A    
Brookhaven   N/A        N/A      x             x             x
Oak Ridge    x          x        x             x             x
Windscale    N/A        N/A      N/A           N/A           N/A
Stanford     Really?    N/A      N/A           Really?       Tragic!!
Kennedy      x          N/A      N/A           x             x (!)
Space Center

            Radioactive       Pigeons     Ants    Monster   Baptists  Cartoon
            Wildlife                              Trucks              Accents
Los Alamos   N/A               N/A         N/A     x         N/A      ?
Brookhaven   N/A               N/A         N/A     x         N/A      x
Oak Ridge    x (frogs,          -          x       x         x        x
             anything 
             herbivorous)
Windscale    x (frogs,         N/A         N/A     N/A       N/A      ?
             multi-limbed)
Stanford     N/A               x           x       N/A       N/A      ?
Kennedy      N/A               N/A         x       x         x        x
Space Center

		Alligators	Snakes	Lizards		Killer
							Mosquitoes

Los Alamos	probably not	?	?		?
Brookhaven	probably not	?	?		?
Oak Ridge	probably not	?	?		?
Windscale	probably not	?	?		?
Stanford	probably not	?	?		?
Kennedy		x		x	x		x
Space Center

		Total Score
Los Alamos	2+
Brookhaven	5+
Oak Ridge	10+
Windscale	1+
Stanford	5+
Kennedy		11
Space Center
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Brian Yamauchi			Case Western Reserve University
yamauchi@alpha.ces.cwru.edu	Department of Computer Engineering and Science
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