LOL!
Substitute endangered critters for everything but time.
Measure time by the clock.
So Jenny Eather’s Rainforest maths couldn’t come up with an enviro-friendly representation for time?
Like tree rings for instance?
Oh, that’s right, the only way to measure tree rings is by cutting down the tree.
And that’s bad...
Perhaps a sundial.
But then, sundials don’t work all that well in the rain forest. (for obvious reasons)
Yeah I was thinking this is the math curriculum the scientists were trained on, which is why they didn’t catch the error.