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Date; 11/21/2009 7:36 AM >>> Subject: Re: charismatic megafauna I do not recall that the phrase occurs in the papers of the ichthyologist Carl Hubbs. Insofar as the phrase is a pejorative, it is one that he would have liked to have deployed. I like the Michael Soule or-someone-of-his-ilk-in-the-1980s theory. I'll go a step further in shooting from the hip: the phrase probably postdates the adoption by the World Wildlife Fund of the panda for their logo. I'll also offer the conjecture that there was an oral tradition of using the phrase among conservation biologists, and that the appearance of the phrase in quotes, noted here, honors this consensual tradition. Thus, the origin may not be identifiable in a text -- and this is something that the original query acknowledged. Mark Hineline UC San Diego
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