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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA British Company Names a Wormlike Amphibian After President Trump
A British Company Names a Wormlike Amphibian After President Trump
In an auction, EnviroBuild paid $31,250 for the species naming rights. (Not everyone is happy about that.)
February 07, 2019 Jason Bittel
In December, the Rainforest Trust, a conservation nonprofit, auctioned off the naming rights for 12 species found in Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia. The newly discovered menagerie included a whiskery mouse, several gorgeous frogs, a number of delicate orchids, an adorable salamander, and a trap-jaw ant that can snap its mandibles closed so fast that the force flings the ant into the air and out of harms way. All impressive, but the species to nab the highest price tag of the day was not a fuzzy mammal or a fluorescent frog, but a caecilian.
More: https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/british-company-names-wormlike-amphibian-after-president-trump?utm_source=fb&fbclid=IwAR2piMc1-gCq1Q6qwhs4vqQ4QVd4TLOanKop3aH6txBYiYyfLlU241WnRSc
In an auction, EnviroBuild paid $31,250 for the species naming rights. (Not everyone is happy about that.)
February 07, 2019 Jason Bittel
The newly named Dermophis Donaldtrumpi
In December, the Rainforest Trust, a conservation nonprofit, auctioned off the naming rights for 12 species found in Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia. The newly discovered menagerie included a whiskery mouse, several gorgeous frogs, a number of delicate orchids, an adorable salamander, and a trap-jaw ant that can snap its mandibles closed so fast that the force flings the ant into the air and out of harms way. All impressive, but the species to nab the highest price tag of the day was not a fuzzy mammal or a fluorescent frog, but a caecilian.
More: https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/british-company-names-wormlike-amphibian-after-president-trump?utm_source=fb&fbclid=IwAR2piMc1-gCq1Q6qwhs4vqQ4QVd4TLOanKop3aH6txBYiYyfLlU241WnRSc
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A British Company Names a Wormlike Amphibian After President Trump (Original Post)
csziggy
Feb 2019
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Doreen
(11,686 posts)1. That is just cruel to the worm.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)2. But it is good that the money is going to preserve the habitat it lives in
Since the person it is named for will not do that!
Doreen
(11,686 posts)4. Yes, good point. I still feel sorry for the worm.
I hope it does not get beat up by other worms for its name.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)3. That's what I was going to say!
What did the worm do to deserve that?!?!?!
Doreen
(11,686 posts)5. The other sad thing is that the worm
looks better than trump.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)7. You can say that again! (about a million times!)
The worm is pretty cute, actually.
But, I have a fondness for all animals.
I don't know what kind of life form the Donald is....
Doreen
(11,686 posts)8. Yeah, the worm is cute.
I am strange because I think that bugs are cute. "Cute as a bug" works for me.
3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)9. After rain storms, I rescue worms from...
...driveways and sidewalks so they dont dry up and die when the sun comes out.
Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)6. Should not be Dermophis but Dotard.