Learn the moves to impress your date Sex Survey: The results are inq Cn 410 Friday / February 13 / 2009 Lizard poo research goes down the drain • Postgrad's seven year research into rare lizard faeces incinerated by University • "I'll see you in court," says student Claire Freeston rainforest with a team of reformed )ne post reads, "1 doubt your poachers to find the faeces of one of material was labelled and very few the world's largest, rarest and most people apart from yourself knew of its A Leeds PhD researcher has mysterious lizards." existence. This is sad, but it's pretty Leeds University 11 The obliteration of his collection much your own fault." threatened to sue the University UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS after they accidentally incinerated has hit Mr. Bennett hard. Ile said, I lowever, Mr. Bennett denies Business School his seven-year collection of lizard "It's loss left me reeling and altered wrongdoing on his part, saying: "It is excrement during a routine lab the course of my life forever." insulting and ludicrous to imply that I clear-out. The human is a species related to would spend so long collecting 'the University has apologised for the Komodo dragon. It was thought material and not label it.'' to be extinct, and now only exists on The University has stated that they the mistake and offered Daniel r414 2. 1 Bennett L5011 in compensation after Polillo Island in the Philippines where are unaware of any legal action. Their he complained about the loss. I le has it lives in one square mile of habitat. statement read, "The loss of these 7 'C3 4 refused the money and says that he Nit. Bennett preferred not to disturb samples was an unfortunate mistake. will "see them in court." them in their natural habitat and SO They were thrown away in error Mr. Bennett, author of several researched them by studying their because they were in an unmarked books on Monitor lizards and a faeces. bag. leading authority on the buraa.n, Mr. Bennett's collection of lizard "Lessons have been learned and described his horror at the loss in pies was stored at his leeds lab in a protocols improved to ensure this Times nigher 1 .:(14«dion (d:1 LC.). 35kg bag. I le said he was horrified to cannot happen again. "To some people it night have return from the Philippines to "Mr. Bennett is due to graduate been just a bag of lizanl shit, but to discover that the hag had been with his PhD this year, subject to me it represented seven years of removed. "I was surprised to find my minor corrections to his thesis painstaking work searching the desk space occupied by another unrelated to the loss of the materials." student and to see that photographs A fellow student at the Institute of of my daughter, my girlfriend and my Integrative and Comparative Biology, favorite lizards had been removed Ben Chapman, commented, "I from the wall." sympathise with Daniel, it must have 1JOTHEY DON'T "The laboratory space where my been painful to lose all that hard samples had been stored was empty. work." MUCH BIGGER. Irritation turned to fear as 1 realised Dr Chapman, who has just that my personal effects had been finished his own PhD concerning an Masters Open Day carefully stowed in boxes, but there unusual species of fish found in the Wednesday 4 March 2009 was no sign of my 35-kilogram hag of mangrove swamps of the Florida keys, lizard shit. Fear turned to anger and commented on the costs of 1:15pm at Leeds University bewilderment when I learned that my postgraduate research projects. "PhD Business School samples had been 'accidentally' students usually have access to LIMO removed from the lab and per year budget for equipment and incinerated." travel costs. Anything over and above Register online at INCINERATED: Mr. Bennett's letter detailing his that we must fund through external The butaan lizard experiences on the 1:./-1./ website has grants. My research will have cost www.teeds.ac.uk/lubsistudentleeds with a sample stool attracted much criticism In ire viewers. alit au L301 N 1 altogether." • • Sport Comment & Debate Features Being gay in football: we talk to Just One night stands: Good or bad? 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