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Dinner-2 : Endangered Species-0
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Lunch
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Howie Severino (GMA News) was doing a documentary on endangered birds called Bye Bye Birdie. Amazingly, they found and filmed a female Turnix worcesteri, the first such pictures/vid of a living specimen in history!
Thought to have been extinct, little known information on record, globally isolated only to Luzon….. it was sold the next day for ten pesos to a man for a meal of wild bird meat.
... and then there were only 40 left... again
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Another local item; this one closer to my interests. Number 41 of only 40 previously seen rare Megamouth Sharks was discovered in the Philippines, caught and later eaten. One of the rarest fishes in the world with only 40 others recorded to have been encountered, the World Wildlife Fund said it was 1,100-pound, 13-foot , caught March 30 off Burias island in the central Philippines. It was taken to nearby Donsol in Sorsogon province, where it was butchered and eaten, said Gregg Yan, who took pictures and tried to dissuade the fishermen from eating it. (endangered species be-damned apparently)
The fish was tagged “Megamouth 41″ — the 41st megamouth recorded in the world — by the Florida Museum of Natural History ….. then it was lunch
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I love how they just eat them after they find some of the rarest shit on the planet. You just have to laugh.
Apr 23, 2009 at 3:30 AM