We should be so ashamed... (1 Viewer)

[cheryl]

...extinct. This is a sad sad day. And me just after seeing Funghi in Dingle at the weekend.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061214-dolphin-extinct.html

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

speak for yourself - i had nothing to do with this

 

[La La]

yeah man - i mean humans are pricks and all but it was the chinese who polluted their own river and fucked up its natural ecosystem. this is very sad news but.

we get pink dolphins out here, and the state of teh water ion some areas, i reckon it wont be long before they die out too.

 

[cheryl]

speak for yourself - i had nothing to do with this

yeah, no need to worry about it. you're off the hook

 

[ratmonkey]

yeah man - i mean humans are pricks and all but it was the chinese who polluted their own river and fucked up its natural ecosystem.

To enable their industry to make cheap crap to sell to us.

 

[La La]

To enable their industry to make cheap crap to sell to us.

hmmmmmm.

anyway i have to correct myself, i didnt see the next page of teh story - apparently it wasnt just pollution that killed them off. but still. poor sods, their sonar systems were going wobbly cos of all the ships

 

[cheryl]

yeah man - i mean humans are pricks and all but it was the chinese who polluted their own river and fucked up its natural ecosystem. this is very sad news but.

we get pink dolphins out here, and the state of teh water ion some areas, i reckon it wont be long before they die out too.

i don't think it matters who's to blame. the fact is, this animal is gone.

 

[Squiggle]

Has anyone here read "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine? It's an amazingly chilling book, and yet entertaining too. Highly recommend it.

Anyway, they went in search of the Yangtze River Dolphin as part of their travels.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Has anyone here read "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine? It's an amazingly chilling book, and yet entertaining too. Highly recommend it.

Anyway, they went in search of the Yangtze River Dolphin as part of their travels.

Yeah frightening book.

 

[Hector Grey]

natural selection, dudes.

 

[oh shit]

if anything this just goes to show that we won't allow dolphins to stand in the way of progress. when are they gonna learn?

 

[magicbastarder]

this should make up for it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6935146.stm

 

[egg_]

Here's an interesting story about the effect of top-level predators on an ecosystem (wolves in Yellowstone park)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031029064909.htm

 

[oh shit]

can you summarise it?

i read an article about discarded pet pythons growing to enormous sizes and killing everything in the florida everglades. pretty impressive.

 

[La La]

can you summarise it?

i read an article about discarded pet pythons growing to enormous sizes and killing everything in the florida everglades. pretty impressive.

there are some good darwin award stories about pet pythons getting hungry and havign their humans for dinner

 

[egg_]

Re-introduction of wolves has caused a big recovery of plant species (aspens and cottonwoods) that were in serious decline, which was having the knock-on effect of bad river erosion (because the plants weren't stabilising the riverbanks) ... the reason for it (they think) is elk are now afraid to browse in exposed places like riverbanks for fear of being attacked

 

[oh shit]

i always knew wolves were cool

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

"quit eroding that topsoil arghrgrgrghh"

 

[therealjohnny]

i always knew wolves were cool

 

[frona]

It's very sad news indeed. And that picture's not helping Johnny.