Posted on 08/25/2022 11:23:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Dugong swims with its nose touching a shoal of yellow fish
IMAGE SOURCE,PATRICK LOUISY
Researchers have declared a mammal related to the manatee - said to have inspired ancient tales of mermaids and sirens - extinct in China.
Only three people surveyed from coastal communities in China reported seeing the dugong in the past five years.
Known as the ocean's most gentle giant, the dugong's slow, relaxed behaviour is likely to have made it vulnerable to overfishing and shipping accidents.
It still exists elsewhere in the world but is facing similar threats.
Prof Samuel Turvey, from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), who co-authored the research study, said: "The likely disappearance of the dugong in China is a devastating loss."
Scientists at ZSL and the Chinese Academy of Science reviewed all historical data on where dugongs had previously been found in China.
They found there had been no verified sightings by scientists since 2000.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Unless you put it directly into cans at the factory.
They probably all disappeared near North Korea.....................
Along with the crates of General Tso sauce [tastes like chicken!].
“But researchers believe that the continuing destruction of its habitat - including a lack of seagrass beds for feed - has caused a “rapid population collapse”.
The UN Environment Programme estimates that 7% of seagrass habitat is being lost globally every year because of industrial and agricultural pollution”
So, was exporting our manufacturing, getting cheap junk in return and driving other animals to extinction worth it?
Let me tell you about endangered species, all right? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It’s arrogant meddling! It’s got what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn’t anybody understand that? Interfering with nature! Over ninety percent... over, WAY OVER ninety percent of all the species that EVER lived on this planet, EVER lived, are gone. Wssst! They’re extinct! We didn’t kill them all. They just... disappeared. That’s what nature does. They disappear these days at the rate of 25 a day, and I mean, regardless of our behavior. Irrespective of how we act on this planet, 25 species that were here today, will be gone tomorrow. Let them go gracefully. Leave nature alone. Haven’t we done enough?
We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now: save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails, and the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these people kidding me? Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet! We haven’t learned how to care for one another yet - we’re going to save the planet? I’m getting tired of that ! Tired of that ! Tired! I’m tired of Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths! People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a about the planet. They don’t care about the planet. Not in the abstract, they don’t. Not in the abstract, they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.
-George Carlin
Looks like a walrus and a dolphin got it on.
send em a manatee
“Weighing in at almost half a tonne, it is the only vegetarian marine mammal”.
Well there you go, a vegetarian.
No. The chinese are known to overfish the world over. And pollute the air we all breathe.
So that really, REALLY wasn’t chicken?
Asian countries are so heavily polluted (except Japan) that it is hard to describe. Trash everywhere. Rivers have floating plastic covering the surface. What would be surprising is if anything in China, except for communists, are thriving.
With Chinese eating habits I’m surprised there are animals of any kind still left there.
They are probably hiding under the trash...................
that inspired mermaid tales?
Yeah, what subterfuge said.
First the Steller’s Sea Cow, and now this.
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