a) Prvo sam mentorku pitala da li takve stvari uopšte spadaju u pers. comm.
b) U konkretnom slučaju ima veze i šta se u kom narodu misli o kornjačama, jer je tema seminarskog Konzervacioni status ... kornjače u Srbiji. Naravno, konkretnih podataka o Srbiji nema (niko još nije radio ozbiljno), ali ima ih za neke druge zemlje (u Francuskoj i Italiji je, izgleda, nesrećna životinja u mnogo gorem položaju nego kod nas). U faktore ugrožavanja spada i lov od strane lokalnog stanovništva, tj. naroda, odn. nesrećnog Milisava. Tako da u konkretnom slučaju jeste bitno šta narod misli o kornjačama.
c) Evo malo Bugarske: The research done by Beshkov (1984) proves that for many years thousands of tortoises, collected from different Bulgarian regions, had been distributed in the villages with catholic population in the region of Plovdiv. ... In the vicinity of cherry orchard around fireplaces hundreds parts of tortoises were found including eggs as most of the rests are coaled. ... The functioning till 1981 restaurant “Kostenurkata” (The Tortoise) in the town of Rakovski had been one of the main tortoises’ “consumers”. Even tough the restaurant is known now as “23-rd kilometre”, its emblem remains tortoise. There are signals that “tortoise dish” is still possible to have there after preliminary request of the customer. ...
http://testudo.bspb.org/en.php?id=5d) Šumska kornjača ugrožena (iz raznih razloga, naročito usled raznih ljudskih dejstava) je zakonom zaštićena svuda gde živi (lažem, ne znam za Albaniju).
http://www.iucnredlist.org/search; http://www.unep-wcmc.org/isdb/Taxonomy/tax-species-result.cfm?SpeciesNo=21648&21648&tabname=all#; ovde ima sažeto:
http://www.arkive.org/hermanns-tortoise/testudo-hermanni/info.htmle) U tom kontekstu bitno mi je i šta srpski seljak misli o šumskoj kornjači. I o ostalim nedomaćim životinjama.