Visual Sensibility

No more female tiger for Hobbes? Ugh, sad truth is sad.

According to ScienceDaily, a species of lizard is now extinct from the Hawaiian Islands, making it the latest native vertebrate species to become extirpated from this tropical archipelago. 

Small animals like this skink are prone to what Fisher and Ineich call “cryptic extinction” — when a species is easily confused with similar species that their extinction can go unnoticed for decades.

Read the rest of article here.

Professor Djoko is one of Indonesia’s renowned dedicated herpetologists and also zoologists and I bet he has known about this, or even the symtomps of its extinction. I will have his class on Wednesday and I hope he’s not sad.

mothernaturenetwork:

‘Stem cell zoo’ could save endangered species from extinction
Scientists have produced the first stem cells from endangered species, a breakthrough that could save animals from the brink of extinction.

‘Cell culture’ has become a hot topic among third year Biology students of ITB recently. Our professors are kindly giving us homeworks related to the future project about it (will have to presentate them this Thursday!). Wish us luck!