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- Saintlink, on 10/12/2007, -7/+117Rabbits that didn't breed like mad? What kind of rabbits are these? Sad.
- decksnfx, on 10/12/2007, -21/+126:'(
- derby, on 10/12/2007, -3/+77rabbits not breeding ... not a good sign
- dallen, on 10/12/2007, -38/+104I don't feel diminished yet. How long is this supposed to take?
- gab00n, on 10/12/2007, -4/+52Why didn't they take some of its sperm and freeze it?
- pintong, on 10/12/2007, -10/+51This is seriously 5 minutes from my house. I want to see the two remaining females before they're gone, if they're viewable to the public.
- Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -15/+54Because something unique and irreplaceable has just disappeared from the universe? Apart from that - no big deal
- Bigcat1021, on 10/12/2007, -6/+41"The only species I care about is the human species, of the female type."
I'm betting that "the female type" could care less about you. - mentor, on 10/12/2007, -6/+37Sad... But isn't this a breed rather than a species...?
- pfister_, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Some biologists are slapping their foreheads right now.
- Xinareiaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26they probably did, if you read the article it says that they attempted to impregnate the 2 females.
- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27That didn't stop the dinosaurs on Jurassic Park.
- goat77, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24"There's no real distinction. Those are loose terms without a real scientific definition."
Although breed may not be very specific, "species" is. Taxonomy has Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, SPECIES (and all the sub-categories). - slash101, on 10/12/2007, -8/+26If you don't care don't post.
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -14/+32Be careful not to create a wererabbit.
— Wallace - goatrandy, on 10/12/2007, -13/+31I don't know about you Vigo, but I've been feeling diminshed for MONTHs now. :)
Seriously though, extinction is always terrible even from a purely selfish human-centric point of view. These little bunnies DNA could have held the cure to some rare, or not so rare, disease. Now they're gone, and we may never completely understand them biologically to see if they had anything to teach us.
Also, now who will Avon test their products on? College kids? :) - johnnybravoh, on 10/12/2007, -11/+28douchebag.
- sho222, on 10/12/2007, -15/+32Evolution 1, Bunnies 0
- sert, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22if you didnt read this article it would not affect you at all...
no I'm not e-thugging, just being realistic. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19It's a sign that their species' time was up.
- katina, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20Damn lesbian rabbits! Look what you've done!
- Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20CLONE THEM :p
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -16/+30man 1298417541027521, Nature 0
- johnnybravoh, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22That little rabbit should have chewed off his foot for luck. Then he might have gotten laid.
- bugsy187, on 10/12/2007, -26/+39Hey guys, thanks for the ignorant "tough" guy comments, thanks for rationalizing mass extinction so you can feel better, and, most of all, thanks for making this all about you.
- szelij, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I hope they saved its DNA. Regardless of what we cant do now, we most certainly could in the future.
- anarchocap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13http://digg.com/science/Colombian_Frog_Believed_Extinct_Found_Alive
Thought this was ironic - Firemeboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16"Biologists captured 16 rabbits in a remote area of Douglas County in 2001" There's your first problem. Maybe they don't like an audience when they breed.
- Enitime, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15"i understand the humor... but... have to say... you're wrong. humans have caused more species to become extinct than any of the mass extinctions."
Well that's just horrifyingly ignorant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event - SystemError, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18they have 2 females left "Lolo and Bryn" or Righty and Lefty
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11This is not a species, it is a sub-species. Also, since none are living in the wild, the consequences would be the same on the environment as if they had died out. If we aren't seeing major animal die-offs from lost food sources, they probably won't be missed. They would probably be replaced by another population.
In California they had some type of spotted owl that existed only in one small area of the state. All the environmentalists went ballistic about it. Then everyone found out an identical spotted owl existed in other places, but was just called by the regional name in each location.
The trick with this stuff is not to get carried away with this on a microscopic scale. If it were the last male rabbit of any type, that would be a pity. Even if it were a major sub-species group, that too would be a shame. But this is like the last male Jones or Smith dying in Yell county Arkansas. Not really that big a deal. - D4V1S, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16uhh, why don't they just clone the male and one of the females a few hundred times, and then set them free to breed like bunnies?
- Enitime, on 10/12/2007, -10/+20"Sad... But isn't this a breed rather than a species...?"
There's no real distinction. Those are loose terms without a real scientific definition. - srodolff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Hmmm......Am I the first to say that the male died in captivity? What makes them think they are not still in the wild?
- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Um, if they caught 16 in 2001 then all this story says is that the last male in captivity died. What is so sad about that? Do they really think they caught them all?
- Odalisque, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10why would you want the "lucky foot" of a rabbit that let its species die out???
- patjamas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10They had trouble getting rabbits to breed? Blows my whole perspective on rabbits.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I wouldn't be proud if I were the last dude on earth and couldn't, uh... repopulate the species.
- goatrandy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Slashdot, April 1.
You had to be there. :) - tecknoplasma, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15If you're a crazy religous person - that's kind of how humans started is it not?
- johnnybravoh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9yeah - maybe they shouldn't have used the steel jawed traps to catch the little bunnies.
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9wtg biologists. what did they do? put them in a cage and forget about them for six months?
- EPeters, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13This is only sad if they are dying out as a result of human interference. Otherwise, it's just natural selection. And yes, the two ARE mutually exclusive.
- beatmix01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Just because us humans cannot 'find' anymore doesnt mean that they are gone. Mother nature has a strange way of screwing with human comprehension.
- xocomil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Everyone knows that a live rabbit's foot is not lucky. It is not until the rabbit has experienced some unfortunate ending that all the bad luck in the foot is used up. After that event, the foot then becomes a fountain of infinite good luck. That my friend, is why you only see the feet of dead rabbits carried around as good luck charms. Well, that and the fact that it is difficult to get a whole rabbit into your pocket (they bite and scratch you know).
- analogAI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7it's probably because that last rabbit's standards were too high...
- Alphabet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7animals are only fit to adapt if the environment is slowly changing. If I throw you into the polar ice caps, I doubt you'll survive.
Same thing for animals if you destroy their habitat. Evolution takes time. It doesn't happen in a 20 year period(unless the animal you're talking about has a small life cycle like insects and bacteria/fungi) - UsernameTaken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Conservationists go too far sometimes. I understand that we should make everything possible to preserve ecosystems where species find their natural habitat, but applying extreme and unnatural preservation efforts to species that simply refuse to breed in captivity doesn't make a lot of sense.
Besides, it is not a rare occurrence that some believed to be extinct species pops up in some unexplored habitat, where they found a way to reproduce and thrive, away from the careful watch of concerned scientists. - cwoolf34, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Dibs on the Rabbit's foot!
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