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Date: 2012-06-25 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-25 07:36 pm (UTC)I went to the Royal Museum not long after the Baji had been declared functionally extinct, and in the "endangered animals" section where it once was was an empty space and a sign saying "This exhibit has been removed"
It was so sad
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Date: 2012-06-25 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-25 08:07 pm (UTC)The Southern Right Whale is doing pretty well - the IUCN figures show about 3,200 individuals, and growing well, putting it in the 'Least Concern' category. Later estimates are even higher, like 10,000 or so.
But at the other end of the scale, IUCN says only about 500 left of each of the North Atlantic Right Whale and the North Pacific Right Whale, making them 'Endangered'. It's really very gloomy for the Northeast Pacific subpopulation, they guess less than 50, and worryingly few calves, making it 'Critically Endangered', which is the Last Chance Saloon before joining Lonesome George and the dodo.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/8153/0
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/41711/0
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/41711/0
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Date: 2012-06-25 08:58 pm (UTC)Tree Lobster!
Date: 2012-06-25 10:05 pm (UTC)Re: Tree Lobster!
Date: 2012-06-25 10:08 pm (UTC)Re: Tree Lobster!
Date: 2012-06-26 08:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-25 08:59 pm (UTC)And if we're going for sad, there's this: http://earthsky.org/earth/52-hertz-song-of-worlds-loneliest-whale
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Date: 2012-06-25 07:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-25 08:09 pm (UTC)If the Homo sapiens (alba, male, old-geezer?) scientists who developed the "subspecies" concept are unhappy... well... as the last surviving member of the Emil Schachenman family (at the age of 83, unlikely to pocreate), my comment is on the order of "Yeah, that kind of thing happens".
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Date: 2012-06-25 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-25 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-25 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-26 01:37 am (UTC)If we didn't think of ourselves as special I'm sure there would be culls.