underpants
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Jan-18-05 02:46 PM
Original message |
|
A Tarsier stares out from inside its cage at a captive breeding center in Loboc on Bohol island, in the central Philippines. Officials say the tiny tree-dwelling mammals, sometimes called the world's smallest monkeys, are in danger of extinction due to the disappearance of the country's forests.(AFP/Jay Directo) http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/050118/photos_sc_afp/050118043312_4gzsszxu_photo0&e=1&ncid=1756
|
Worst Username Ever
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Jan-18-05 03:03 PM
Response to Original message |
1. Holy cow it looks like an alien. Er, on too much coffee. |
Squeech
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Jan-18-05 03:06 PM
Response to Original message |
|
That's too cute.
Many of our closest relatives, the primates, live in habitats that are severely threatened. Orangutangs live in Sumatra (yeah, *that* Sumatra) and Borneo, gorillas in Rwanda, lemurs in Madacascar-- all places where desperate human populations are chopping down trees (if not each other) to try and eke out a homestead.
My cynical doppelganger would like to remind you that the wingers would be delighted if they all went extinct, so nobody ever again saw anything that might look like evidence for evolution.
|
kslib
(485 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Jan-18-05 03:12 PM
Response to Original message |
|
Not about the extinction, of course. I'm gonna have to do a little digging on these guys, they're pretty cool!
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Fri Apr 26th 2024, 09:30 PM
Response to Original message |