NYTimes reports potentially exciting news this week. Someone has made a recording of what may be a Java Tiger, long thought to be extinct, on Java island in Indonesia. (The recording could also show a Java leopard, which is very rare, but not thought to be extinct.) It’s very exiting, but also a little terrifying: even as I read the article, I felt I could hear the sharpening of poachers’ knives. I trust I’m being too grim.
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The Bird That Isn’t the Blue Mot Mot
What’s a blue mot mot? I wish I could say it’s a bird, but it’s not: it’s my *mishearing* of a bird’s name from a guide who was trying to tell me about these phenomenally gorgeous — and, according to the guide, also phenomenally stupid — birds. “Look!” he said. “They don’t even know to fly away from the tourists!”