Thursday, April 26, 2007

Extinct Fauna --- Do you miss them?


http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Endangered/lists/extinct.html


Perhaps people with unrepaired hare-lips may miss the hare-lip sucker. Nature appears to have filled in the ecological gaps left by the carolina parakeets and the passenger pigeons and most other extincted fauna. I sorta miss the sabre-tooth tigers but the cats we now have fill the gap since there are no more wooly mammoths nor boars that required 15 strong men to carry nor even those huge aurochs that were the pride of Poles as recently as the 17th century.

http://users.aristotle.net/~swarmack/aurohist.html

I've heard there are Russians working on a project to bring the wooly mammoths back. They must be the most missed of extincts.

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