Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Extinction

I have been catching up on a backlog of some journals our Biology teacher and photographer Bob Mize donates to the library after he has finished reading them. World Watch had a number of interesting articles about endangered animals facing extinction without us knowing it. The tiger has had a dramatic decrease in numbers across the species. Also a number of unusual animals are fading before we even get a chance to understand them. These include the saiga antelope and the slender loris. They are both on the watch list of an organization from the Zoological Society of London. Their website (http://www.edgeofexistence.org/) helps us to understand more about the 564 animals facing extinction. Go check it out. Some of the species I did not know even existed.

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