Raphus Cucullatus
(Dodo Bird)
Posted on 08/12/2005 8:12:47 PM PDT by wagglebee
They may give some of it to Clinton.
The most recent reported rediscovery that has ornithologists in a flap was that of the ivory-billed woodpecker, believed extinct for 60 years until sightings in a remote part of the U.S. state of Arkansas last year.
Anyone who thinks the dodo is extinct hasn't visited Democratic Underground;)
This is why even though I like watching "Shark Week" on the discovery channel I am sicked by all the talk of how sharks are endangered. Who knows how many sharks there are? Scientists used to be confident that sharks had to keep swimming to move water over thier gills until divers found some resting in underwater caves.
You should read this article. In Australia, they want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make "test tube" sharks to protect the "endangered" sharks. Even though you read about all of the shark attacks there every year.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1458440/posts
This gives me a great idea. Every time someone wants to build on land and enviro-wackos sue saying a speices will become extinct, we just collect animal samples and we can clone at will.
In the past couple decades, there have actually been a few reports of dodo sightings on Mauritius. I'm skeptical myself, but ya never know!
Granted, that a big bumbling flightless bird could escape notice on a small island for three centuries seems rather implausible. I figure it's just a combination of seeing an unfamiliar bird plus wishful thinking.
Surely no hope for the passenger pigeon or the great auk though. =(
It's like the "everything is evidence of Global Warming" trope:
"A species has become extinct? Well, now you can see how much we need conservation agencies!"
"We were wrong? It's not extinct? Well, we better protect it's environment! That's why we need conservation agencies!"
There are evidence that this is already happening.
Well the do do bird wasn't sh*t anyway...............or was it??
One of the funniest things I have ever heard Rush say is that the best way to ensure the survival of any species is for people to eat them.
Aha, PETA isn't the real friend of animals KFC is!
But you can see a very nice stuffed dodo at the Natural History Museum in London. However, after perusing what seems to be a stuffed every species of bird ever known to mankind at that museum, my kid pointed out, "You know what they're missing? A pink flamingo!" Somebody email Jeb and tell him to send the Brits one. They've earned it!
I ain't believin' nuthin until I hear a statement from WWF's Hulk Hogan.
Gives new meaning to the word "extinct". I assume that is a scientific word.
So, if they prosper we must give credit where credit is due..
Who deserves the credit? Humanity? or Nature?
personally, I think it's Nature..
Maybe evolution had a second chance.
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