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American ornithologist Christopher Philardi is probably not even suggested that his decision to make a stuffed bird from a rare bird, which over the past century only two experts have seen, will cause a huge wave of protests from world scientists, advocates animals and ordinary Internet users. According to the bewildered American, he receives in the mail even anonymous ambulance threats reprisals.
Filardi was fortunate enough to catch in the Solomon Islands in Melanesia is an incredibly rare bird that he immediately killed with aim to study its anatomy and make it a stuffed animal, later replenished the collection of the museum. In early October, an ornithologist working at the New York Museum of Natural History, along with several his colleagues flew to the island of Guadalcanal. The purpose of this expedition was the search for the rarest and almost mythical birds that were described by naturalists in the early twenties of the last century based on aboriginal finds. For this, the Americans placed in snare forest.
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Christopher is extremely lucky – he fell into his trap almost a mythical inhabitant of the island – a mustachioed salmon from kingfisher family. Over the past hundred years, zoologists have met her only twice: in 1920 and 1952. In this case, both times in the eye the specialists came across females, but no one had seen males since from time immemorial. Filardi was doubly lucky because the individual he caught was just a male. American did some photographs of the rarest bird, then killed him, studied the structure of internal organs and made of a dead bird scarecrow. Christopher’s colleagues did not object, although probably It would be worthwhile, as the museum management blabbed about it act of his employee, and the world community has failed Philardi claims and criticism.
Representatives of PETA Standing for Ethics the treatment of humans with animals, compared the act of an ornithologist with crime of the American poacher Walter Palmer who in This July, in Zimbabwe, he shot dead lion Cecil, who was the main attraction of the local national park Hwange. Many international scientists have reported that bird study it was possible without harming her, and such an act is unacceptable for a scientist.
Pressure from colleagues and the public forced Philardi publish an article in which he justifies his actions interests of science. According to the American, in the Solomon Islands about a thousand baleen alcynia inhabit, and the killing of one individual is unlikely will become critical for the population of these rare birds.
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Birds Islands
