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Some good news to cleanse your feed. The Blue Macaw (made famous by the movie Rio) has recentered the wild “defeating” extinction.

206 upvotes, 12 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Some good news to cleanse your feed. The Blue Macaw (made famous by the movie Rio) has recentered the wild “defeating” extinction."

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Anonymous 2w

From what I’ve learned ab manatees, stuff like this isn’t always good :( it makes people think great! they’re saved now our efforts can stop! …no 😐

Anonymous 2w

Maybe I’m dumb but I thought extinct meant there were no more left. Not a single one. Totally gone. And endangered was the word for if their number were dangerously low but not zero. So how can something come back after 2 decades of extinction? Genuinely asking, someone educate me lol

Anonymous 2w

So like idk if this is a stupid question but is it possible to combine eggs from one animal with sperm from another in the same family or genus in a Petri dish to keep it from extinction? Because if it’s possible wouldn’t that be a good way to bring animals like this back

Anonymous

#1 2w

They also don’t get the same protections anymore now that they’ve lost their endangered classification

Anonymous

#2 2w

Idk ab these guys specifically but ik in a lot of cases like black footed ferrets we thought they were extinct but we discovered some populations still existing and we able to start a breeding program and now they’re back from “extinction”

Anonymous

#2 2w

Not dumb!! There’s fully extinct and then there’s extinct in the wild. For a while, these guys only existed in captivity. Now there’s some out and about in the world :) here’s the full breakdown

Anonymous

#3 2w

Not a stupid question! The answer is kinda but not really. For example, horses and donkeys are separate animals but they can be bred to create mules. So if donkeys went extinct but we had some frozen sperm, we could theoretically impregnate a horse with it. But it wouldn’t bring back donkeys - it would create a mule. And mules are infertile bcos we’re not great at playing God

Anonymous

#3 2w

Then past that we currently don’t know how to successfully grow much of anything purely from a Petri dish - we’d need to implant it in something in an animal version of IVF, which would be extremely expensive and complicated and not super likely to work and potentially could be considered animal cruelty

Anonymous

#1 2w

They’re currently classified as vulnerable and decreasing, so they’ll probably get their endangered classification back soon. But yeah, conservation efforts tend to go to the most critical needs. So if one species is no longer endangered, we shift gears to helping a species that is still critically endangered. We don’t have unlimited funds so we have to triage. It’s unfortunate, but it’s also the most effective way to slow/stop extinctions

Anonymous

#4 2w

I’m learning so much from you bro 🙏🏼 Appreciate u 🧠

Anonymous

#4 2w

Ooooh ok! Thank you both #1 and #4!!

Anonymous

#6 2w

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Anonymous

#4 2w

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Anonymous

#6 2w

Omg pookie 🥰 I might hold you to that