This newborn pangolin was found when Thai customs officers seized 173 smuggled animals.
This image sickens me. It will probably have a short miserable life and die behind bars, although unless it makes it back to the wild, it is dead now anyway.
Isn't it a desperate situation whan the world's news contain daily images of animals in cages or being kept captive in people's homes for their amusement value whilst we orchestrate the biggest mass-extinction since life began in the world, and the vast majority of our children will never see a wild creature in it's native habitat.
As a species sharing the planet with others, we need to take a serious look at ourselves.
Thanks for posting that, Arbroath. Hopefully it will stop someone from buying an 'exotic' pet!
You'd think that someone who knew about the P-T extinction would know that it lead to the rise of the dinosaurs, not their extinction. That would be the K-T.
It's also debatable that the P-T was the largest. There are some who would give that distinction to the Pre-Cambrian die-off of anaerobic bacteria when the oxygen levels rose. The issues are that they don't fossilize and 'species' is an awkward distinction to make when referring to bacteria. 'Strain' is more appropriate.
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Puny pink pangolin.
Thank you!
I has absolutely no idea what it was.
This newborn pangolin was found when Thai customs officers seized 173 smuggled animals.
This image sickens me. It will probably have a short miserable life and die behind bars, although unless it makes it back to the wild, it is dead now anyway.
Isn't it a desperate situation whan the world's news contain daily images of animals in cages or being kept captive in people's homes for their amusement value whilst we orchestrate the biggest mass-extinction since life began in the world, and the vast majority of our children will never see a wild creature in it's native habitat.
As a species sharing the planet with others, we need to take a serious look at ourselves.
Thanks for posting that, Arbroath.
Hopefully it will stop someone from buying an 'exotic' pet!
Many thanks for the info, Anonymous.
I fully agree with your sentiments.
I doubt humans could cause "the biggest mass-extinction since life began" even if we actually tried.
True. The biggest mass-extinction was the Permian-Triassic event, which killed off the dinosaurs. We weren't even here yet...
That was actually before the dinosaurs, L.
You'd think that someone who knew about the P-T extinction would know that it lead to the rise of the dinosaurs, not their extinction. That would be the K-T.
It's also debatable that the P-T was the largest. There are some who would give that distinction to the Pre-Cambrian die-off of anaerobic bacteria when the oxygen levels rose. The issues are that they don't fossilize and 'species' is an awkward distinction to make when referring to bacteria. 'Strain' is more appropriate.
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