Just a moment to appreciate the beauty and weirdness of nature. Tuataras are a holdover from a much older age of reptiles. How unusual they are in that context I don't know. Having a subcutaneous eye that no one ever sees seems pretty unique.
The zookeeper who addresses us does seem to have a nice gentle touch.
It's fascinating to see a creature that's essentially been around for a couple of hundred million years. It does resemble a lizard but I understand what the handler was saying about the basic differences. There have been far too many species native to Australia and New Zealand that have become extinct because of introduced predators. Let me know if you ever hear about a dodo that's been rediscovered - well, a pair would be better.
This afternoon Jer showed me an article that might interest you as well. It's called The Power Latent in a Countercultural Right by N.S. Lyons. The odd thing is that the counterculture always has more fun (ie, the Babylon Bee). The woke left has essentially painted itself into a corner and then erected a safety wall in front.
The truth of the animals' wisdom Is quite apparent today How many dodos do you know That aren't even put on display ~ Neil Innes
Australia and New Zealand both have rich and strange natural habitats. Australia is the largest trove of marsupials, which used to roam across Gondwanaland. New Zealand has an intense number of flightless birds in a small area. But then both of these ecological wonders are vulnerable to outside threats. The latter especially, for obvious reasons.
The left has long taken pride in having grand and pure theories. This is fine as long as you're on your little island trading them with other theoreticians. When the theories get enforced in society at large while simultaneously becoming more distanced from observable fact, more people will start noticing. That's part of what's behind the phenomena the author notices.
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It's fascinating to see a creature that's essentially been around for a couple of hundred million years. It does resemble a lizard but I understand what the handler was saying about the basic differences. There have been far too many species native to Australia and New Zealand that have become extinct because of introduced predators. Let me know if you ever hear about a dodo that's been rediscovered - well, a pair would be better.
This afternoon Jer showed me an article that might interest you as well. It's called The Power Latent in a Countercultural Right by N.S. Lyons. The odd thing is that the counterculture always has more fun (ie, the Babylon Bee). The woke left has essentially painted itself into a corner and then erected a safety wall in front.
The truth of the animals' wisdom
Is quite apparent today
How many dodos do you know
That aren't even put on display
~ Neil Innes
Australia and New Zealand both have rich and strange natural habitats. Australia is the largest trove of marsupials, which used to roam across Gondwanaland. New Zealand has an intense number of flightless birds in a small area. But then both of these ecological wonders are vulnerable to outside threats. The latter especially, for obvious reasons.
The left has long taken pride in having grand and pure theories. This is fine as long as you're on your little island trading them with other theoreticians. When the theories get enforced in society at large while simultaneously becoming more distanced from observable fact, more people will start noticing. That's part of what's behind the phenomena the author notices.
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