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I really want your opinion (this has nothing to do with art)
15 years ago
If you found an extinct animal somewhere and you were the only one to find/know about it at the time, what would you do?
Would you take it to the nearest laboratory for testing?
Would you take blurry photos of it to get interest going in the hunt for the animal but otherwise leave it in it's habitat?
Would you take it home and keep it from being found?
Would you kill it, stuff it, and sell it to the highest bidder?
I honestly don't know what I'd do. I wouldn't want the animal poked and prodded, I'd want it to have the best life possible, but I'd want DNA and studies done on the animal for the sake of science. I wouldn't want cloning done due to the issues that the science of cloning currently has.
Side note: "The Great Auk" would make an awesome name for a guerrilla street artist.
Would you take it to the nearest laboratory for testing?
Would you take blurry photos of it to get interest going in the hunt for the animal but otherwise leave it in it's habitat?
Would you take it home and keep it from being found?
Would you kill it, stuff it, and sell it to the highest bidder?
I honestly don't know what I'd do. I wouldn't want the animal poked and prodded, I'd want it to have the best life possible, but I'd want DNA and studies done on the animal for the sake of science. I wouldn't want cloning done due to the issues that the science of cloning currently has.
Side note: "The Great Auk" would make an awesome name for a guerrilla street artist.
And zoos....They just aren't the same. Nature preserve? Yeah, I could get behind that :) Lot more space, lot more freedom, but also a watchful eye.
I could imagine you trying to chase/herd a Thylacine around an abandoned parking lot or something to capture the little bugger :P
*chases thylacine around with grabby paws* GIT IN MAH PRESERVE!
Some of the extinct animals we *could* do the same thing with as far as taking genetic material from mummified/pickled specimines and sequencing a code for them. I know there is some preserved tissue (and maybe mummified?) quagga preserved as well as entire frozen preserved mammoths that could/are being sequenced.
*goes off to draw Holly McGrabbyhands*
Would you take blurry photos of it to get interest going in the hunt for the animal but otherwise leave it in it's habitat? You would have to be a prolific idiot to do the Blurred cliche and I would hope someone would kill you for it. Being the age it is now there is no excuse for having screwed up photos. If you can prove something that is supposedly extinct is alive, then you should be smart enough to make sure that it remains known so you don't have some nutjob come around blowing their loads of lead into something that is very precious.
Would you take it home and keep it from being found? If I could manage taking it into my care, I may consider keeping it a secret if I know that I can handle it. We're talking about a creature of unknown origins and uncertain of what it is, so it does make it hard to tell if I could. If I cant do it on my own, I would at least try to seek the aid of someone that I know would keep their mouth shut and is more knowledgeable than I in caring for animals.
Would you kill it, stuff it, and sell it to the highest bidder? I would be tempted to do that to the idiot that would think it would be a good idea to commit Taxidermy
Thanks for the input :) The blurry photos comment was a joke more than anything else.