I noted that this monkey, discovered only three years ago, has an effort going to save it from extinction. What amazes me is that a three foot high freak'n monkey, of a completely new species was just found in the twenty first century. This is not some monkey that has a different colored tuft of hair and is a sub-species. This is not some tiny inch long shrew confined to soil containing ivory billed woodpecker guano. This is not some denizen of a country that has been constantly wracked by war like Vietnam or Afghanistan, keeping scientists out.
This is a big freaking monkey running around vast swaths of a peaceful, country that was owned by Britain for 100 years, and is one of the best governed in Africa, albeit socialist and thus an economic basket case.
In the obscure corners of the internet you can find cryptozoologists still hoping for a dinasaur valley, yeti's or bigfoot. (Weirdly, there are two movies out right now with the same star, one with Yeti's and the other with a lost dinasaur world-both starring Brendan Frasier!).
If in my son's lifetime (five years old) they are finding big freaking monkeys in Africa, I'm not betting against some Pleisaur hanging out somewhere in the depths and only breeding on some obscure pacific island. Which would be so cool.
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