Astro Hacker News - Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting

technothrasher |next [-]

My buddy is on a quest to be the first to photograph all forty species of wild cats. He's at 38 of 40 (I'm at 7, so I don't think I've got any chance of winning.) He's trying to finish up within the next six months or so, and is currently down in Chile trying to get a güiña. He recently told me, though, that his victory may be short lived, as a group of scientists reviewing cat species are likely about to break some of the small cats up into additional separate species and he'll have to get those too.

asdff |root |parent |next [-]

Sounds like he has to front run the upcoming species demarcations.

bbor |root |parent |previous [-]

That is simultaneously so heartwarming and so silly. Please sit him down and have a long, serious talk about cladistics!

The kids are learning about it earlier and earlier these days, you know — it’s better that he heard that species don’t exist from you.

technothrasher |root |parent [-]

Oh, trust me, he knows its meaningless in the end. It's really an excuse to spend his life engaged with and promoting conservation of the wild cats he loves.

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Related "Photo Ark – An effort to document every species living in zoos and sanctuaries (nationalgeographic.org)" 23.apr.2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22953622 9 comments

mallory854 |next |previous [-]

This is my favorite type of news! Animals are the absolute best and I love learning about new ones we've discovered.

ChrisMarshallNY |next |previous [-]

This guy is awesome. My wife got almost every one of his tabletop books.

nemo |next |previous [-]

Good luck with the beetles, man.

Joel_Mckay |root |parent [-]

At least they didn't choose ants and termites. =3

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