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January 24, 2016
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
concluded these are the only ones on Ball's Pyramid, the last ones. They live there, and, as best we know, nowhere else. How they got there is a mystery. Maybe they hitchhiked on birds, or traveled with fishermen, and how they survived for so long on just a single patch of plants, nobody knows either. The important thing, the scientists thought, was to get a few of these insects protected and into a breeding program. : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 24, 2016 7:03 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Note to do-gooder, meddling scientists: Leave them alone. They done fine until you came along. Just leave them alone.
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at January 25, 2016 7:49 AM
"The important thing, the scientists thought, was to get a few of these insects protected and into a breeding program."
Why, in God's name, would anyone want to do that?
Posted by: Darkwater at January 25, 2016 8:14 AM
That's just fine. Some species that has no natural predators, let's breed 'em up and turn 'em loose.
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.
You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BCE – 8 BCE)
See? even this guy knew what's what.
Posted by: chasmatic at January 25, 2016 8:16 AM
Darkwater
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Why, in God's name, would anyone want to do that?"
1. If you believe in God, because he created them.
2. If you don't believe in God, because the DNA may contain some uniquely valuable genes.
Posted by: bilejones at January 27, 2016 5:07 PM