There is a mysterious lake in the UNITED Kingdom called Loch Ness, because there are often legends of water monsters here, attracting a large number of tourists.
In this lake, people often report cases of seeing water monsters, which also makes the monster known as "Nisi" more and more mysterious, but the protagonist we are going to talk about today is not this water monster, but another story. The protagonist of this story is also an animal, which is now as mysterious as "Nisi", and people often have reports of witnessing this animal, but the "mystery" of this animal carries human crimes and a kind of irony that cannot be described in words.
The animal's name is the ivory-billed woodpecker, and they now have the same "honor" as Nisi, a mysterious animal...
In 2005, magazines and newspapers reported reports of bird sightings from the river beach lowlands of Arkansas, usa, claiming to have witnessed ivory woodpeckers and taking photos and videos. Some senior scientists who have studied birds for decades have been in tears when they heard the news, looking at the blurry photos and unable to speak with excitement.
Because through these pictures and videos, people see a bird in the video that looks a lot like an ivory woodpecker. In this emotional moment, they obviously can't suppress their feelings, so they will shed tears.
However, some experts have found that these images do not prove that the protagonist of the video and photos is really an ivory woodpecker, because the "Loch Ness Monster scam" can be staged again, and many people think that the picture may only show "garden elves riding the Loch Ness Monster".
Most newspapers and magazines retained opinions, which also made the ivory woodpecker look even more confused. Why have people been searching for this species, and what makes this animal so "mysterious" and hot as Loch Ness?
The ivory-billed woodpecker is a large woodpecker, second only to mexico's emperor woodpecker, this woodpecker is beautiful in color, black and white, this woodpecker can reach half a meter long, if they fall on the trees in search of bugs, it will be a spectacular sight.
This creature was very common on the American continent in the 18th century, and later white people came to the American continent and they were devastated. Although their habitat was not destroyed, their populations gradually began to die out due to the brutal hunting of Europeans. The last report of an ivory woodpecker was recorded in 1944 after the eyeing report of the famous bird painter Don Eckelbury, which was defined by scientists as an "extinct species." "
For the next sixty or seventy years, there were reports of bird sightings, so it makes perfect sense to say that the ivory woodpecker is one of the birds.
Slaughtered by humans, and then the descendants of these people try to find their sins to compensate for, although not quite the same as the story of Nissi, but always the result is similar, but the story of the former is full of blood and irony.
Although "Nisi" in birds is often reported as a sighting, the vast majority of ornithologists insist that the bird is extinct. Due to the demise of a newly recent species, nature will cause some "complications" in humans, and humans will instinctively look for them and think of some similar species as such birds. Animals such as the North American black woodpecker, which resemble ivory woodpeckers, also live in the Americas, which is one of the reasons why many ornithologists define the so-called "witness proof" as untrue.
Not only that, some ornithologists believe that because the ivory woodpecker is very large, so when they stand on the stump to search for insects, they will leave a hole that is "huge" relative to other woodpeckers, this trace is very easy to distinguish, unfortunately people have not seen this hole for decades, so many sightings are likely to be people's mistakes or some news media trying to find heat.
Even so, there is a group of people who insist that this woodpecker exists, because many people believe that the world is full of "mysteries" and that perhaps a few lucky ones have escaped human hunting and are still living. These people cast a mysterious layer on the ivory woodpecker, but in some ways, this theory is difficult to hold.
The number of a species has plummeted, who has the power to make the countdown to extinction suddenly stop, and the last few individuals can survive? And what can the individuals who survive be able to avoid inbreeding and allow the entire race to continue?
And where are these ivory woodpeckers hiding for so many years that people haven't caught them? What efforts have they made to keep them from being discovered? Nature is not a benevolent savior who can give a species a pause button when it is about to disappear, and then give the poor ivory woodpecker a "brake."
In fact, no matter what hope people have preserved, the ivory woodpecker is indeed extinct, if scientific and rigorous, what is left about the ivory-billed woodpecker? We can say responsibly that in addition to the taxidermy birds made in newspapers, there are also some old black and white blurred photos.
There's even an old nitric acid film film that was burned down at Cornell University in the 1960s due to its extremely flammable nature, and of course, in addition to that, we can find some recordings of the real calls of ivory woodpeckers, a "relic" left by a beautiful creature, and it's hard to find much of value. Don't let any animal become "Nisi.".
In the Cuban region, there are still some reports of sightings of ivory woodpeckers, but most of these reports stay on videos or photos, and through these blurry videos and photos, we can't tell whether the bird in the photo is "genuine" or not. Now the ivory woodpecker has become a Glorious Niss lake monster, and every eyewitness report can cause an uproar, and even a company with an economic crisis only needs to make up a report to hit the ivory woodpecker, which may turn this month's income into a profit.
A bird that once lived happily in the Americas has become an unattainable lake monster, what lessons should we learn in the process? Perhaps by the time we realize that a species needs to be protected, it is too late for these fragile beings.
In fact, it's not just ivory woodpeckers, there are many animals that are about to embark on the road of "counterattack". The four-colored, once widely distributed in the Philippine Archipelago, but now they have less than 140 in the wild, and according to scientists, the number of black longbowks in Australia may already be less than 100.
The beautiful South Island eared crow, which was once endemic to New Zealand, has a beautiful yellow "fleshy hanging", this bird has not had any accurate eyewitness report from 1967 to the present, it is as mysterious as the Loch Ness Monster, a species can generally be regarded as extinct if there is no eyewitness report for 50 years, this bird we have not seen them for 53 years, they may have left us forever and gone to sing with God.
Eyewitness reports of one species after another have become as precious as the Loch Ness Monster, and behind this preciousness there are bloody stories after bloody stories in which we should learn the lesson that the cost of animal extinction is immeasurable. The consequences of the extinction of a species are difficult to predict accurately.
Biological relationships in ecosystems are very complex, and the sudden disappearance of one species may affect other organisms. Many of today's medicines are extracted directly from plants and animals.
The first antibiotic in human history, penicillin, was extracted from mold. Some of the current potent anti-cancer drugs are derived from an endangered Caribbean sponge. Other plants and animals must also harbor undiscovered chemical mysteries. For many, the biggest reason to protect wild animals is not that their presence makes the planet beautiful? The wild can no longer hear the sound of insects, and the roar of beasts can no longer be found in the mountains and forests, so is such a planet still a beautiful and moving planet?
Historically, every century there has been an extinction of a species. Today, as many as 20 to 40 species are extinct on Earth every day! When we think about it, this number is very scary.
Don't let any animal become a "Loch Ness Monster", don't let the "eyewitness report" of any animal become so "golden".
Please stop fantasizing about the Loch Ness Monster, no creature will be spared without stopping the destruction.