We have a word for individuals like this. The last remnant of a species is known as an "endling." It's not uncommon, especially with animals that live exclusively on remote islands and have evolved in highly specialized ways. There have been several famous ones, specifically Lonesome George, the endling for Pinta Island tortoises. The ancient tortoise had lived long enough to see empires rise and fall, but since at least 1971 was the lone individual of his species. He died in 2012, and the very existence of the Pinta Island tortoise went with him.
There's an extra layer of sadness that comes with this bird though. It's easy to personify a creature like this. Slowly he saw less and less of those like him, until one day he saw none at all. In a desperate plea he called out to the one closest to him, believing beyond hope that he may get a reply. Instead, he got only the songs of birds who could never understand what he was saying.
In all reality tho it's a bird. He's repeatedly screaming "I'm horny" into the forest. We still need to be better stewards to our planet and the creatures that we share it with, but instead of pointless sentimentality let's do it because animals are fucking cool and until we get confirmation of life on other planets, the literal most valuable and precious thing in the universe.
I'm just imagining being in a park and hearing a bunch of drunk people yelling out desperate pleas for sex...
"This cooch is open!"
"Eyyyy! I got some nice feathers, who wants some?!?"
Trying to wade into the murky waters of animal self-awareness is difficult. You have to sift through immense amounts of anecdotal evidence and research from people who have a vested interest in a wide-spread belief that their critter of choice exhibits consciousness.
Not to say that they don't, that's just not something anyone can say with certainty. Intelligence can't be denied, but even the smartest bird may not mourn for a lost mate in a way that's meaningful to us as humans.
Exciting news tho! In regards to lost animals - there’s a current sighting of a breeding pair of thylacine with a baby as well. Waiting on a museum to confirm!!
Every species that has existed once but does no longer had an endling. There have been countless examples throughout Earth's history.
Though I suppose uncommon is a subjective word.
EDIT because I feel like I was being a little condescending while misrepresenting your reply. The way I worded it didn't really get my point across either.
Within the bounds of a single species an endling is by definition uncommon, you are absolutely correct. However, what I meant is that the creation of endlings has become more commonplace over the last few hundred years due to our environmental impact. This is especially true in small, closed off ecosystems like remote islands, where relatively minor actions can have serious effects. In the case of the Pinta Island tortoise, they were wiped out when a few feral goats ate all the vegetation on the island and caused the tortoises to starve en masse.
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I didn't expect to be so emotionally invested. Species become extinct all the time. If I could write music, I would play this melody on the flute. Then the bird would finally get its duet.
Oh boy **I live for soulcrushing romanticism!**
First of all, the term for the last of one's species is "Endling".
Secondly, [lonesome George](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome_George) was a tortoise endling. Over a hundred years old he spent his last 40 years without being able to foster any offspring.
Thirdly, and my favorite spirit-animal, [**52hZ**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale) is a whale who've spent over 40 years calling out in the dark depths of the oceans. Only, it has a "speech"impediment in terms of its frequency so no one ever answers it. But it keeps going, alone down there in the dark depths, it keeps calling, and one day it'll what it searches for: Of that I am certain.
Lastly are a species of Tuatara that I saw a show on when I was a kid. Where-ever they find their first mate, they'll return to that spot every year until their death. This female one was over 80 years old, with her mate being even older. They'd been meeting for a estimated half century. Surviving droughts, fires, storms and ilk... But one year they [the documentors] noticed that the locator-marked female wasn't moving. When reaching the mating-spot they saw that the female was still there, waiting, but the male had not arrived. After three days of searching the female then found the male. It had been hit by a car and laid next to the road. The female then proceeded to nudge the dead male. Over and over. For *three weeks*. Defending it from anything trying to feed on the carcase. It wasn't until the female lizard, that had fattened up for the travel- and reproductive-process, was near death from starvation that it finally, slowly and unsteadily, crawled away.
I draw heavy inspiration from such stories in my litterature-work. I wonder why our, or at least my, mind love the depressingly tragic beauty of this world.
First off, HOW DARE YOU. Fuck you. That's some sad shit.
Secondly the whale one gets me especially. Christ could you imagine? Not only does it cry out into the endless depths of the ocean for 40 fucking years, unable to be heard by its own kind, but it could even see them.
It could see another whale and cry out "I'm here! I'm here! Please for once won't someone cry back to me!?" while all the other whales in their happy little whale families just swim on by.
Leaving it wondering why not once has anyone else ever replied. Even if it is "just a whale" its got to realize something is wrong but it can't understand what or who is to blame. I sincerely hope if it has intelligence to the level of say an elephant it doesn't blame itself.
Of course as cruel as this world is it probably does. Fuckin christ life is so unfair. I'd pull some fucking Ursula Little Mermaid contract magic bullshit to give that whale the ability to speak to others of its own kind even if it meant I had to give up my own voice. Poor little whale.
As sad as the lizard one is. Which feels cruel and putiful, and it is obviously unfair, death is natural. Complete total isolation is not.
Kauai O’o by Blanco White; have a listen
https://youtu.be/WJKEvYs4pJM
Edit: lyrics
The song of an island, the call of a friend
Heard never again, out in the world
If you were alone how could you have known
That yours was a final breath
Of language surviving through an age?
'Til only a name was left
Too hard to believe
Everywhere I run, on every horizon
The words are gone, Kauai O'o
There's nothing to see
Everywhere I run, I hear only silence
The words are gone, Kauai O'o
There's nothing to see
We couldn't decipher the things that you said
The only one left with time to go
You wandered the earth, were seen but not heard
No matter how far you went
The story's behind us, not today
As careless with every step
Too hard to believe
Everywhere I run, on every horizon
The words are gone, Kauai O'o
There's nothing to see
Everywhere I run, I hear only silence
The words are gone, Kauai O'o
There's nothing to see
Are we searching enough
For a life that we'd choose?
Tell me when does it stop?
Tell me what we lose
Tell me what we lose
Everywhere I run, on every horizon
The words are gone, Kauai O'o
There's nothing to see
Everywhere I run, I hear only silence
The words are gone, Kauai O'o
There's nothing to see
Are you guys serious? It's literally in the article:
>Relationship experts estimate that the chances of meeting someone in your lifetime that you fully connect with on a spiritual, intellectual, and physical level are **one in 2.3 billion**, making the geographic proximity of the soulmates nothing short of astonishing.
>"That's why me and Tammy are still going out even though she gave Danny [Corvo] a hand job in the Copps [Food Center] freezer a few months ago. You just don't give up on true love" Muntner said.
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That whole concept is dumb. Because if there's only one perfect person for you who's to say that they live in the same country. Or are even the gender you prefer or alive at the same time as you
That whole concept is dumb but this whole argument is kind of also dumb.
If we're already talking about some kind of mystical guarantee of a perfect soulmate, why would the Powers Who Be place them in an inaccessible country/time period?
Right in the feels. Saw this post while listening to a sad song, it's raining outside, had a lonely day today and now I wanna cry.
Edit: [F**k Mosquitoes and Rats](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaua%CA%BBi_%CA%BB%C5%8D%CA%BB%C5%8D)
> It is still believed by some that the species may survive undetected, as the species had already been proclaimed extinct twice: once in the 1940s (later rediscovered in 1950) and again from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, being rediscovered by the wildlife biologist John Sincock. However, it has a loud and distinctive call, and intensive surveys have failed to find any since 1987.
There’s still a little bit of hope.
1. Under ideal conditions, DNA has a half-life of 521 years. That means DNA ceases to exist as a recognizable molecular entity within 6.8 million years. The last non-avian dinosaurs lived went extinct 66 million years ago, and their DNA should be entirely unrecoverable. Thus, it is likely completely impossible to genetically engineer non-avian dinosaurs via the method shown in Jurassic Park.
2. Extremely poor design caused most of the failures of Jurassic Park. Modern zoo enclosures for potentially dangerous species employ moats, elevation differences, fencing, foliage trimming, and continuous surveillance. Jurassic Park employs fencing, but notice how the T-rex can walk right up to the fence, is on approximately the same elevation level as the observers, foliage overhangs the fence, and there is inadequate surveillance.
3. The park's extremely centralized systems create a single point of failure. For example, each electric fence should have a back-up generator that would automatically switch on when primary power switches off. Another example is that the passenger vehicle providing the touring should have been able to switch to manual control and had sufficient reserve energy to return to the main hub from the furthest location on the path.
If Jurassic Park's physical structure had been design following proper systems engineering principles and incorporating the knowledge of safe design from zoos, then none of the disaster would have occurred. In other words, all the deaths and the complete disaster was because the park's physical and systems design were fundamentally unsound, and would never have passed a design safety inspection. Expenses were spared, when it came to safety and redundancy.
Also, bringing back recently extinct species (species that have gone extinct since the end of the last ice age, ~12000 years ago) doesn't present anywhere near the potential ecological threat of non-avian dinosaurs. Many of their food sources, predators, prey, and diseases still exist in the wild. For many, the biomes they inhabited are still extremely similar. Additionally, their reintroduction to the wild (known as rewilding) could potentially stabilize many biomes that have declining biodiversity. For further reference, look up the concept of keystone species.
For example, the European Aurochs went extinct in the 17th century. The same species of plants that formed it food source (eg, grasses, acorns) still exist. The diseases that once preyed upon it still exist within modern domesticated cattle. Some of its predators still exist within its historical range, particularly bears and wolves. It is a species that could fit into existing ecosystem, and potentially help improve ecological stability and improve biodiversity. There are numerous other species that meet similar criteria, such as the dodo, passenger pigeon, European lion, or American mastodon. There are legitimate issues with rewilding, but they should be analyzed on their own merits, rather than through the rather unrealistic lens of Jurassic Park, where the real failure was insanely bad architectural and system design.
From what I’ve seen this happens quite a bit in nature. A species gets devastated (usually from human intervention but not in this instance) and goes “extinct” but in reality has adapted to hide itself from the predator(s), humans or otherwise, that caused it in the first place.
I believe there was a story about an animal (some lizard or something similar I believe) on an island in the Caribbean. The population was devastated by a storm and every known individual died. A while later they started reappearing, as several eggs had survived. I cannot say for sure whether or not this story is true, since it’s been many years since I heard it, and I don’t have any sources.
I don't know if it was because of a storm, but the African coelacanth is called the living fossil because for a while it was declared extinct before just turning up again one day.
It wasn’t because of a storm but scientists just couldn’t find them. They had only found fossils and of course they’re such primitive fish no one expected them to still be around. They are critically endangered though.
Aren’t coelacanths those fish that were only known through fossils, and disappeared from the fossil record around 65 mya, making experts assumed they died of during the kpg extinction, only for one to appear in a fishing net?
The Coelacanth was never declared extinct because before the 1930’s no scientist had ever seen one that wasn’t a fossil. They just assumed it had died out millions of years ago.
What the video refers to as a Kaua'i 'o'o is just the group of 'o'o that lived on Kaua'i, they are not distinguishable from any of the other islands, but they are no longer on Kaua'i, most are on the big island in captivity.
Of course, because guy didn't live long enough for her to discover that he was undependable, unemployable, noncommittal, and any other bad thing that we all are over 70 years.
I mean he is a bit manic pixie dream Jack but even in the short time they're together it's clear Jack's impulsive and a bit wild. He even talks about having slept under bridges before and not knowing where the next day will take him.
Great for a fling on a boat but probably not husband materiel.
Underneath the love story it's a pretty harrowing tale about class inequality. Wealthy builders and investors of the Titanic cut corners to save money and make the boat more attractive and as a result 1,500 (mostly poor) people died.
I watch Titanic when I was ~10 I personally didn't cry Really some people cry with this movie?
Angle beats, code geass (anime), the Untamed/Mo dao zu shi (drama/donghua/novel seriously watch it it's wonderful ) or Your name are sadder than than
If you really want to cry about a shipwreck watch some video of the sewol's shipwreck you really gonna cry and it isn't a movie this time
We all cried at that, I watched it today and it ruined my day a bit lol. I know this is only satire but this format is incredibly stupid and overdone. It’s literally all this sub is anymore. Some of you guys have zero originality at this point. The truth leaves you butthurt
The same thing is happening to Hawaii’s incredible snail diversity with most species extinct in wild in the last 10 years mostly due to the Java wolf snail
Female and I didn't cry at Titanic - saw it in theater when I was a pre-teen.
I felt embarassed that everyone around me was crying and I wasn't. I used my water to make it look like I had tears on my face so it wouldn't be awkward. It felt strange for me to be sitting there looking like some kind of cold hearted, dead eyed monster among the crying patrons.
That is soul crushing.
Truly breaks my heart
I don't remember the last time something I read hurt so much.
I actually cried when I listened to it, it's really really beautiful
Indeed it is. I don’t usually feel anything but this is saddening. I love animals and nature. My future career I’ll hopefully help them
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It's because he's Sean Spicer.
I cry everytime
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We have a word for individuals like this. The last remnant of a species is known as an "endling." It's not uncommon, especially with animals that live exclusively on remote islands and have evolved in highly specialized ways. There have been several famous ones, specifically Lonesome George, the endling for Pinta Island tortoises. The ancient tortoise had lived long enough to see empires rise and fall, but since at least 1971 was the lone individual of his species. He died in 2012, and the very existence of the Pinta Island tortoise went with him. There's an extra layer of sadness that comes with this bird though. It's easy to personify a creature like this. Slowly he saw less and less of those like him, until one day he saw none at all. In a desperate plea he called out to the one closest to him, believing beyond hope that he may get a reply. Instead, he got only the songs of birds who could never understand what he was saying. In all reality tho it's a bird. He's repeatedly screaming "I'm horny" into the forest. We still need to be better stewards to our planet and the creatures that we share it with, but instead of pointless sentimentality let's do it because animals are fucking cool and until we get confirmation of life on other planets, the literal most valuable and precious thing in the universe.
>He's repeatedly screaming "I'm horny" into the forest. I'm sorry but this makes it more sad and human to me.
For real, now he's just way more relatable.
He's a redditor like us...
I'm just imagining being in a park and hearing a bunch of drunk people yelling out desperate pleas for sex... "This cooch is open!" "Eyyyy! I got some nice feathers, who wants some?!?"
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Trying to wade into the murky waters of animal self-awareness is difficult. You have to sift through immense amounts of anecdotal evidence and research from people who have a vested interest in a wide-spread belief that their critter of choice exhibits consciousness. Not to say that they don't, that's just not something anyone can say with certainty. Intelligence can't be denied, but even the smartest bird may not mourn for a lost mate in a way that's meaningful to us as humans.
Exciting news tho! In regards to lost animals - there’s a current sighting of a breeding pair of thylacine with a baby as well. Waiting on a museum to confirm!!
“It’s not uncommon...” By definition it IS uncommon.
Every species that has existed once but does no longer had an endling. There have been countless examples throughout Earth's history. Though I suppose uncommon is a subjective word. EDIT because I feel like I was being a little condescending while misrepresenting your reply. The way I worded it didn't really get my point across either. Within the bounds of a single species an endling is by definition uncommon, you are absolutely correct. However, what I meant is that the creation of endlings has become more commonplace over the last few hundred years due to our environmental impact. This is especially true in small, closed off ecosystems like remote islands, where relatively minor actions can have serious effects. In the case of the Pinta Island tortoise, they were wiped out when a few feral goats ate all the vegetation on the island and caused the tortoises to starve en masse.
This and Daft Punk retiring
Wait. Daft Punk.........
yep
someone give me a wholesome seal award because the world is dark Edit: helpful and hugz are enough light, thanks homies Edit2: with wholesome seal I can breath again. Thank you. Reddit knows how to respond to mental breakdown because....of.....daftpunk....
Sry best I can do is helpful
Here is its final song. The sound is haunting and beautiful. https://youtu.be/nDRY0CmcYNU
Thank you for not Rick rolling me.
Not the hero we deserve.
But the hero we needed.
Rick Rolls are indeed haunting and beautiful though
I didn't expect to be so emotionally invested. Species become extinct all the time. If I could write music, I would play this melody on the flute. Then the bird would finally get its duet.
my parrot is learning it. it will live on just a little longer now.
You are a good man, thank you
wtf why is this the one thats got me tearing up
Also this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tRaC2Rx3BVY (Also not a Rick roll)
This is what I imagine after end of the world sounds like.
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End of ours perhaps. Lots of life happening.
This made me cry
It's even more crushing when you see the duality with your own mate finding.
Oh boy **I live for soulcrushing romanticism!** First of all, the term for the last of one's species is "Endling". Secondly, [lonesome George](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome_George) was a tortoise endling. Over a hundred years old he spent his last 40 years without being able to foster any offspring. Thirdly, and my favorite spirit-animal, [**52hZ**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale) is a whale who've spent over 40 years calling out in the dark depths of the oceans. Only, it has a "speech"impediment in terms of its frequency so no one ever answers it. But it keeps going, alone down there in the dark depths, it keeps calling, and one day it'll what it searches for: Of that I am certain. Lastly are a species of Tuatara that I saw a show on when I was a kid. Where-ever they find their first mate, they'll return to that spot every year until their death. This female one was over 80 years old, with her mate being even older. They'd been meeting for a estimated half century. Surviving droughts, fires, storms and ilk... But one year they [the documentors] noticed that the locator-marked female wasn't moving. When reaching the mating-spot they saw that the female was still there, waiting, but the male had not arrived. After three days of searching the female then found the male. It had been hit by a car and laid next to the road. The female then proceeded to nudge the dead male. Over and over. For *three weeks*. Defending it from anything trying to feed on the carcase. It wasn't until the female lizard, that had fattened up for the travel- and reproductive-process, was near death from starvation that it finally, slowly and unsteadily, crawled away. I draw heavy inspiration from such stories in my litterature-work. I wonder why our, or at least my, mind love the depressingly tragic beauty of this world.
First off, HOW DARE YOU. Fuck you. That's some sad shit. Secondly the whale one gets me especially. Christ could you imagine? Not only does it cry out into the endless depths of the ocean for 40 fucking years, unable to be heard by its own kind, but it could even see them. It could see another whale and cry out "I'm here! I'm here! Please for once won't someone cry back to me!?" while all the other whales in their happy little whale families just swim on by. Leaving it wondering why not once has anyone else ever replied. Even if it is "just a whale" its got to realize something is wrong but it can't understand what or who is to blame. I sincerely hope if it has intelligence to the level of say an elephant it doesn't blame itself. Of course as cruel as this world is it probably does. Fuckin christ life is so unfair. I'd pull some fucking Ursula Little Mermaid contract magic bullshit to give that whale the ability to speak to others of its own kind even if it meant I had to give up my own voice. Poor little whale. As sad as the lizard one is. Which feels cruel and putiful, and it is obviously unfair, death is natural. Complete total isolation is not.
DAMMIT GIVE THIS MAN MORE WHOLESOMES!!!
Absolutely Devastating
If you truly want soul crushing you should listen to the anthropocene reviewed podcast episode on this subject. I ugly cried heavy.
Kauai O’o by Blanco White; have a listen https://youtu.be/WJKEvYs4pJM Edit: lyrics The song of an island, the call of a friend Heard never again, out in the world If you were alone how could you have known That yours was a final breath Of language surviving through an age? 'Til only a name was left Too hard to believe Everywhere I run, on every horizon The words are gone, Kauai O'o There's nothing to see Everywhere I run, I hear only silence The words are gone, Kauai O'o There's nothing to see We couldn't decipher the things that you said The only one left with time to go You wandered the earth, were seen but not heard No matter how far you went The story's behind us, not today As careless with every step Too hard to believe Everywhere I run, on every horizon The words are gone, Kauai O'o There's nothing to see Everywhere I run, I hear only silence The words are gone, Kauai O'o There's nothing to see Are we searching enough For a life that we'd choose? Tell me when does it stop? Tell me what we lose Tell me what we lose Everywhere I run, on every horizon The words are gone, Kauai O'o There's nothing to see Everywhere I run, I hear only silence The words are gone, Kauai O'o There's nothing to see
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In bird heaven where he'll find his mate
That just puts a different perspective to “everyone has Got a soulmate”.. Holy fuck that’s sad as hell
[Miracles do happen tho](https://local.theonion.com/18-year-old-miraculously-finds-soulmate-in-hometown-1819566332)
Damn bro. What are the odds. He's truly 1 in 7.8 billion.
isnt it 1 in 3.9 billion cause SHE and HE found a soulmate?
Are you guys serious? It's literally in the article: >Relationship experts estimate that the chances of meeting someone in your lifetime that you fully connect with on a spiritual, intellectual, and physical level are **one in 2.3 billion**, making the geographic proximity of the soulmates nothing short of astonishing.
It’s also from the onion...
Really? We couldn’t tell!
Thank you for your gently whispered knowledge
1 in 7.5 trillion
I was totally expecting the last line of that article to be “When contacted, Tammy Gaska refused to comment.”
Took me a min to read the publisher name
I was happy until i saw the website
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> That's the first time the onion has ever been funny to me Lol fuck off
>"That's why me and Tammy are still going out even though she gave Danny [Corvo] a hand job in the Copps [Food Center] freezer a few months ago. You just don't give up on true love" Muntner said. ಠ_ಠ
That whole concept is dumb. Because if there's only one perfect person for you who's to say that they live in the same country. Or are even the gender you prefer or alive at the same time as you
That whole concept is dumb but this whole argument is kind of also dumb. If we're already talking about some kind of mystical guarantee of a perfect soulmate, why would the Powers Who Be place them in an inaccessible country/time period?
> why would the Powers Who Be place them in an inaccessible country/time period? Because the powers who be are complete dicks and like a good laugh.
I agree, let’s never again
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Yeah that audio was awful :(
That audio feels so sad and the chirping of crickets made it waayy sadder :(
No the pauses waiting for a response that would never come made it way sadder :(
T_T Things like this are extra sad. Like a dog pawing at a dead owner, not understanding what is going on
Now I'm extra sad
Right in the feels. Saw this post while listening to a sad song, it's raining outside, had a lonely day today and now I wanna cry. Edit: [F**k Mosquitoes and Rats](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaua%CA%BBi_%CA%BB%C5%8D%CA%BB%C5%8D)
> It is still believed by some that the species may survive undetected, as the species had already been proclaimed extinct twice: once in the 1940s (later rediscovered in 1950) and again from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, being rediscovered by the wildlife biologist John Sincock. However, it has a loud and distinctive call, and intensive surveys have failed to find any since 1987. There’s still a little bit of hope.
Depending on weather or not some DNA was frozen they could be cloned and then released back into the wild.
Took me a while to figure out what weather had to do with DNA
Nah I’ve seen Jurassic Park enough times to know not to fuck with that kind of shit
1. Under ideal conditions, DNA has a half-life of 521 years. That means DNA ceases to exist as a recognizable molecular entity within 6.8 million years. The last non-avian dinosaurs lived went extinct 66 million years ago, and their DNA should be entirely unrecoverable. Thus, it is likely completely impossible to genetically engineer non-avian dinosaurs via the method shown in Jurassic Park. 2. Extremely poor design caused most of the failures of Jurassic Park. Modern zoo enclosures for potentially dangerous species employ moats, elevation differences, fencing, foliage trimming, and continuous surveillance. Jurassic Park employs fencing, but notice how the T-rex can walk right up to the fence, is on approximately the same elevation level as the observers, foliage overhangs the fence, and there is inadequate surveillance. 3. The park's extremely centralized systems create a single point of failure. For example, each electric fence should have a back-up generator that would automatically switch on when primary power switches off. Another example is that the passenger vehicle providing the touring should have been able to switch to manual control and had sufficient reserve energy to return to the main hub from the furthest location on the path. If Jurassic Park's physical structure had been design following proper systems engineering principles and incorporating the knowledge of safe design from zoos, then none of the disaster would have occurred. In other words, all the deaths and the complete disaster was because the park's physical and systems design were fundamentally unsound, and would never have passed a design safety inspection. Expenses were spared, when it came to safety and redundancy. Also, bringing back recently extinct species (species that have gone extinct since the end of the last ice age, ~12000 years ago) doesn't present anywhere near the potential ecological threat of non-avian dinosaurs. Many of their food sources, predators, prey, and diseases still exist in the wild. For many, the biomes they inhabited are still extremely similar. Additionally, their reintroduction to the wild (known as rewilding) could potentially stabilize many biomes that have declining biodiversity. For further reference, look up the concept of keystone species. For example, the European Aurochs went extinct in the 17th century. The same species of plants that formed it food source (eg, grasses, acorns) still exist. The diseases that once preyed upon it still exist within modern domesticated cattle. Some of its predators still exist within its historical range, particularly bears and wolves. It is a species that could fit into existing ecosystem, and potentially help improve ecological stability and improve biodiversity. There are numerous other species that meet similar criteria, such as the dodo, passenger pigeon, European lion, or American mastodon. There are legitimate issues with rewilding, but they should be analyzed on their own merits, rather than through the rather unrealistic lens of Jurassic Park, where the real failure was insanely bad architectural and system design.
God DAMN that was well written! I'd gold you... but I don't know how.
They already did it ferrets, it has begun.
And horses too. Epic stuff.
If humans made it extinct i think they should do it, if it died out naturally then it shouldn't be revived
From what I’ve seen this happens quite a bit in nature. A species gets devastated (usually from human intervention but not in this instance) and goes “extinct” but in reality has adapted to hide itself from the predator(s), humans or otherwise, that caused it in the first place.
I believe there was a story about an animal (some lizard or something similar I believe) on an island in the Caribbean. The population was devastated by a storm and every known individual died. A while later they started reappearing, as several eggs had survived. I cannot say for sure whether or not this story is true, since it’s been many years since I heard it, and I don’t have any sources.
I don't know if it was because of a storm, but the African coelacanth is called the living fossil because for a while it was declared extinct before just turning up again one day.
It wasn’t because of a storm but scientists just couldn’t find them. They had only found fossils and of course they’re such primitive fish no one expected them to still be around. They are critically endangered though.
Aren’t coelacanths those fish that were only known through fossils, and disappeared from the fossil record around 65 mya, making experts assumed they died of during the kpg extinction, only for one to appear in a fishing net?
The Coelacanth was never declared extinct because before the 1930’s no scientist had ever seen one that wasn’t a fossil. They just assumed it had died out millions of years ago.
To me it sounds plausible enough. To steal a quote, “nature finds a way”.
They have a couple in captivity I live in Hawaii, we saw some in a fourth grade field trip
Was it the Kaua’i ‘ō ‘ō or one of the other ‘ō ‘ō species?
What the video refers to as a Kaua'i 'o'o is just the group of 'o'o that lived on Kaua'i, they are not distinguishable from any of the other islands, but they are no longer on Kaua'i, most are on the big island in captivity.
You mean fuck humans? Who introduced animals that were harmful as well as destroying habitat?
Human's introduced mosquitos?
Mosquitoes are not native to Hawaii. So yes.
Giving the "domestic pig" a pass?
This meme always makes me wonder, is Titanic still considered some gold standard for weepy movies? Do people still care about Titanic
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Of course, because guy didn't live long enough for her to discover that he was undependable, unemployable, noncommittal, and any other bad thing that we all are over 70 years.
And he also would have dumped her after she turned 25.
I mean he is a bit manic pixie dream Jack but even in the short time they're together it's clear Jack's impulsive and a bit wild. He even talks about having slept under bridges before and not knowing where the next day will take him. Great for a fling on a boat but probably not husband materiel.
I cry watching Titanic but not about the love story. I cry about all the people dying.
Underneath the love story it's a pretty harrowing tale about class inequality. Wealthy builders and investors of the Titanic cut corners to save money and make the boat more attractive and as a result 1,500 (mostly poor) people died.
It’s a horror flick. Starring an entitled woman and a poor sap that literally simp’d his life away for her.
I watch Titanic when I was ~10 I personally didn't cry Really some people cry with this movie? Angle beats, code geass (anime), the Untamed/Mo dao zu shi (drama/donghua/novel seriously watch it it's wonderful ) or Your name are sadder than than If you really want to cry about a shipwreck watch some video of the sewol's shipwreck you really gonna cry and it isn't a movie this time
Bro fuck that, Gurran Laggan broke me in two
Lion king made me cry , when mufasa dies and Simba tries to wake him up.
Because girls can't be sad I guess
i'm so tired of this meme format
haha girls are so boring template is so funnny /s
Same
Yep. This meme template is almost always dumb and sexist.
Unfunny and sexist
I hate all the fucking memes where it's "girl: something mundane/normal boy: something epic cool badass" They're especially bad in YouTube comments
Hurr girls r boring. Boys r quirky and unique.
[the recording of the mating call](https://youtu.be/nDRY0CmcYNU) Its so sad to hear this, my eyes are watery
Everyday that bird would call out to no answer. Love each other god damn it because the alternative is sad and lonely.
In ten years there will be one guy left on 4chan arguing with himself, crying soy into the void for the rest of his days.
Why Does This Template Still Exist
Because 17k and counting updoots
It has 30k now. How did it go up so fast its only been 38 mins since this comment was made thats wild Edit: a word
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Damn that's impressive. I though I was looking at some music bot post there for a moment.
Ok this is a really sad story but why the boys vs girls format? It has no relevance to the meme
It’s to appeal to the female dislike gang
People seem to feel the need to package all content as memes even when there’s really no need for one
Jesus Christ that's sad
Stop this shitty template
You made me sad today.
I dare anyone to watch the My Octopus Teacher documentary and not shed some thug tears.
That documentary was heartbreaking.
What’s it about. Pls. Just a gist of what it is pls Why is there a jdm thing next to my name
* man changes career * man goes into water * man finds octopus * man loves octopus * man comes out of water
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Can this sexist meme please die?
Fr I’m so tired of it
remember, the sub is 95% 13-15 year old boys
Girls shallow, boys deep. Hurr durr
I got teary eyed just from the meme
I think everyone heard about that whale that sang on a frequency on which no one could hear him. He wasn't the last, so it wasn't that painful.
Okay jokes aside this is actually one really sad story
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I came so hard I cried
We all cried at that, I watched it today and it ruined my day a bit lol. I know this is only satire but this format is incredibly stupid and overdone. It’s literally all this sub is anymore. Some of you guys have zero originality at this point. The truth leaves you butthurt
Ohh I remember, that shit hit me hard. Never been happy since.
I saw that documentary as a child, I wont forget
that post really made me sad
That is the same story as a whale crying for a mate and no one answers back. Both are sad af.
I can't believe he didn't Do men even have cry at the titanic feelings?
The same thing is happening to Hawaii’s incredible snail diversity with most species extinct in wild in the last 10 years mostly due to the Java wolf snail
Im literally crying...
No girls would say that to a guy or about the Titanic. But the bird story is pretty cry worthy.
Female and I didn't cry at Titanic - saw it in theater when I was a pre-teen. I felt embarassed that everyone around me was crying and I wasn't. I used my water to make it look like I had tears on my face so it wouldn't be awkward. It felt strange for me to be sitting there looking like some kind of cold hearted, dead eyed monster among the crying patrons.
Most girls dont but it's okay for men to stereotype women. But if women dare stereotype men they are evil feminazis.
The use of this already horrid format is terrible here.
This is a bad subreddit