Thursday, February 09, 2012

A Woolly Mammoth Should Be Easier to Find

Remember back in 1999 when word was that the Ivory Billed Woodpecker had been spotted deep in the swampy woods of Louisiana, and then again word was it had been spotted deep in the swampy woods of Arkansas in 2005?  These sightings were legitimate enough for The Cornell Lab of Orthinology to launch expeditions into these swampy woods in search of the fabled Lord God Bird, to no avail.  The sightings were also legitimate enough that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service developed a Ivory Billed Woodpecker Recovery Plan, once again to no avail.

Don Hendershot, writing for the Smoky Mountain News, has kept his eye on the Ivory Billed Woodpecker story’s ups and downs, and sums up the hoopala regarding the Lord God Bird in a story titled Slip-sliding away, which ends with a hearty Woody Woodpecker laugh.

Allegedly extinct animals can turn up alive and well, and I was guardedly hopeful that the Ivory Billed would turn up alive and well, and I thought of this when I read this story, ‘Woolly mammoth’ spotted in Siberia, which comes complete with the standard grainy photo and 24 seconds of shaky and grainy video allegedly showing a Woolly Mammoth mid-stream in Siberia.

Expeditions will be mounted, I’m certain, to search for such a creature wandering the wastes of Siberia, and a Woolly Mammoth, if they are still alive and holding out, should, one would think, be easier to find than a Ivory Billed Woodpecker, I mean they won’t be hold up in the hollow of an old tree, though the search could be as futile as the proverbial needle in a haystack.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/09 at 08:25 AM
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