This scientist(?) looks pleased!
I dont need to say that she has a Coelacanth, though it doesn't look very lively, rediscovered in 1938 after being thought to be extinct for 80 million years.
It is good to get some good news wrt the planet, so I was dragged in by an article in the Toronto Star about animals that had been written off, only to annoy all the experts by being re-discovered by someone walking their dog.
As recently as 2004 High range dwarf Cattle have been rediscoveredin India. -its a big country.
Likewise Slater's Skink in Australia in the same year. A year earlier the NZ Storm Petrel blew back in, two years after that the Laotian Rock Rat believed extict for 11 million years "was first seen by a western scientist" -the Eastern scientists are marginalised in the Western press.
There is still a Asian Grey whale rediscovered in 1973 and living in Russian waters- nowhere is very far from Japan and their "Scientific" whaling, so the jury is still out on that one.
Anyway latch on to nature's bloody minded resilience, rejoice in every Tiger that bites off the arm of its tormentor at the zoo, and know that just outside your town there is wildlife that doesn't care whether you like it or not, and may just kill you if the 4x4 runs out of juice...
No comments:
Post a Comment