Last Leadbeater's possum dies in captivity

[DerbyCityNeps]

IM SO SAD! the little boogers are so cute! they look like my baby!
Last In Captivity
alex

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

oops could one of the mods move this to the general discussions? sorry i was in a rush

 

[endparenthesis]

I hope they archived some DNA.

 

[Drosera36]

Actually, the last possum in CAPTIVITY dies. It says there is about 1,000 left in the wild.

-Ben

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

didnt i say in captivity?

Quote[/b] ]Last Leadbeater's possum dies in captivity, OH NO!!!!!!

maby i should rephrase it...last Leadbeater's possum in captivity dies. sorry if it was confusing
alex

 

[adnedarn]

Moved. Now you owe me a D. capensis.....

 

[Seandew]

Not good news but he couldn't breed anyway.

I was actually up in their natural habitat yesterday- what's left of it.

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

Quote[/b] ]Moved. Now you owe me a D. capensis.....

haha

Quote[/b] ]Not good news but he couldn't breed anyway.
I was actually up in their natural habitat yesterday- what's left of it.

wow!
BTW it takes longer than you think to get an animal from the wild and into a zoo. you can just get and Leadbeater or two from the wild and *plop* put it in a zoo. they have to go through generations of acclimation.
alex

 

[Hans Breuer]

Hey, we're probably better off with it being extinct anyway. I mean, there's gotta be a REASON for that name, right?

Hans@visualizing an opossum on the prowl, beating smaller animals to a pulp with a chunk of lead...

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

actually the name comes from the person who discovered it....____ Leadbeater haha