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"For a month the researchers had traversed slender mountain ridges, crossed and
re-crossed rivers that roared through canyons cloaked in tropical forest, and
endured bloodthirsty mosquitoes and leeches, all in search of something that
probably didn’t exist. They had just hours left for searching before they had
to leave Fergusson Island, off the east coast of Papua New Guinea. Expedition
co-leader Jordan Boersma reckoned their chance of success was less than 1
percent.
Winded from a climb, he plopped down on a lush hillside to catch his breath and
began looking through images on the camera traps he’d just collected, not
expecting to find anything. “Suddenly I was confronted with this image of what
at that time felt like a mythical creature,” says Boersma, a postdoctoral
researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. “It was, without exaggeration,
the most surreal moment of my life.”
The camera’s display was tiny, but there was no mistaking the creature it
showed: the Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon, a species that hasn’t been documented
by scientists since it was first described in 1882."
Via Doug Senko.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
