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Story: GBIF Alter-ego WBIF Featured in Danish Donald Duck Cartoon


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Donald Duck (A.K.A. "Anders And" in Denmark) pays a visit to the "World Biological Information Facility" to get information about supernatural creatures in the most recent issue of Disney's "Jumbobog" (Jumbo Book) of comics.
Released on: 08 October 2004
Contributor: Meredith Lane
Language: Danish
Spatial coverage: DENMARK
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Source of information: Egmont Press
Concerned URL:

In the story, Anders And (Donald Duck) works for an organisation called Taming Supernatural Threats (TST). The "Brain" of TST has seen a website that lists a number of supernatural creatures and provides information about them. That website is provided by the "World Biological Information Facility (WBIF)".

Anders is sent by the Brain to the WBIF headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark to try to convince WBIF that supernatural creatures do not exist. Thus, the data about them on the web should be removed, because it might frighten the public.

Disguised as a member of an organisation called "Well-being for Animals", Anders visits WBIF headquarters, and is referred to the researcher who has provided the data to WBIF (see larger image).

The story continues, but strays away from further mention of WBIF and so is not quoted here.

See some of the story by "Click on the image to enlarge" above (746 KB). Reproduced with permission from Egmont Press, representative of Disney in Denmark, copyright 2004.

Please note that this story expired on 2005/01/02

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