El Geco, the “lost” small lizard and discovered 34 years after South Africa
propagandaResearchers who were left by helicopters in an unacceptable cannon from South Africa They say they discovered Type of Salamansa (Little reptiles from the “Phylodactylidae” family have not been seen for more than 30 years He believed he became extinctOr perhaps it was not present.
TRUST, endangered wildlife organization, said on Wednesday that two researchers have found Copy from Geco – a sex of the hells belonging to the Geconids family- a plane from the Blaid Rondafille River. It was first identified in the same cannon in Mabumallanga Province, In northeastern South AfricaIn 1991, but it was not seen again.
The lizard was surrounded by mystery during the following three decadesDid it extinguish or sample of males in the beginning that was actually youthful of another type of male, as some suggested?
Researchers Darren Petersen and John Davis returned to the same place last month, determined to find Blaid Rondville and they solved. Memorization puzzle Which angered Petersen.
What are the “missing” species?
El Geco De Blyde Rondavel I did not attend for more than 10 yearsSo it was considered “missing” species. The International Federation for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is the authority in threatened species, is classified as a type of insufficient data, which means that it was not known enough to see if Extinguish.
“It bothers me to have a type in which there is not enough data.”Petersen says. “I have always loved the types that others will not study because they are more difficult to find or dark.” Petersen said the investigation trip was wrapped for two years, after at least six requests to get permission to go.
Leave them at the top of the most symbolic rocky rocky in the gun, with The slopes with a height of more than 100 meters They could not climb easily and as he believed that Gecos was more likely. It was exactly The same bump as Salamanqueas was found in 1991.
Pietersen and Davies only Three days of camping In the protrusion to find salamanqueas, which ranges between 8 and 9 centimeters when it is fully developed. “And when we got it, we were ecstasy, if not anything else.”Petersen said. He said that they saw between 20 and 30 copies and seized seven copies and photographing them, giving the world a vision of lost intelligence for three decades.
The fifth animal has been discovered in recent years
According to the TRST Landy Life Foundation, the data collected, including tissue samples, will confirm this It is a different type. This is the fifth animal that has been re -discovered in recent years.
In 2021 it was discovered The mole that lives in sand dunes This has not been seen more than 80 years ago, and in the past four years a butterfly has been found again, lizard And the frog, the types lost by the owners of conservation decades ago. They all explain how much It remains to learn about the biological diversity of the worldHe said the confidence of the endangered wildlife.
