Posted on 09/28/2010 11:34:21 PM PDT by Daffynition
Conservationists are overestimating the number of species that have been driven to extinction, scientists have said.
A study has found that a third of all mammal species declared extinct in the past few centuries have turned up alive and well.
Some of the more reclusive creatures managed to hide from sight for 80 years only to reappear within four years of being officially named extinct in the wild.
The shy okapi – which resembles a cross between a zebra and a giraffe – was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1901.
After increasingly rarer sightings, it vanished from the wildlife radar for decades from 1959, prompting fears that it had died out.
But five years ago researchers working for the WWF found okapi tracks in the wild.
Other mammals ‘back from the dead’ include the rat-like Cuban solenodon, the Christmas Island shrew, the Vanikoro Flying Fox of the Solomon Islands, the Australian central rock rat and the Talaud Flying Fox of Indonesia.
The revelations come as the world’s leading conservationists prepare for a major United Nations summit on biodiversity in Nagoya, Japan, next month.
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It’s a damn shame I tell ya... What are going to happen to all the lawsuits?
Too bad the Brown-Nosed RINO isn’t extinct.
Interesting.
Watts Up With That
Jan 2010
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
Abstract
The record of continental (as opposed to island) bird and mammal extinctions in the last five centuries was analyzed to determine if the “species-area” relationship actually works to predict extinctions. Very few continental birds or mammals are recorded as having gone extinct, and none have gone extinct from habitat reduction alone. No continental forest bird or mammal is recorded as having gone extinct from any cause. Since the species-area relationship predicts that there should have been a very large number of recorded bird and mammal extinctions from habitat reduction over the last half millennium, I show that the species-area relationship gives erroneous answers to the question of extinction rates.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/04/where-are-the-corpses/
Isn’t that a pretty thing.
LOL !!!!
“Back from the dead: One third of ‘extinct’ animals turn up again...”
True enough. As but one example, in Washington D. C. of late there have been countless sightings of the Dodo bird; indeed, it would appear to be an enormous concentration of the flightless, small-brained creatures.
That's because the aliens' Terran Wildlife Recovery and Replenishment program is working.
Spaceships have come down and taken tissue samples from all species here. They clone them, and when necessary reintroduce them to our world.
My tin hat keeps me safe.:)
Dang! You’re right!
Let’s lump them all together to make one *huge* class-action law suit. Then advertise on teevee.
ROFLOLLOL
Awwwwww...
The shy okapi -- which resembles a cross between a zebra and a giraffeGreat, now I can't get rid of the mental image of a giraffe jumpin' on a zebra.
Cute okapi. I didn’t know they were extinct. It’s a crossword puzzle word.
They’re not gay, they just play like girls.
Many scientists believe the world is going through a new ‘mass extinction’ fuelled by mankind – and that more species are disappearing now than at any time since the dinosaurs vanished 65million years ago.
Scientists aren't supposed to believe, they postulate and test.
Liberals just believe things.
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