Experts Fear Extinction for Thousands of Bullshit Species
Useless animals clogging up earth, stealing resources from man
ALTON ONUS
An anonymous nature freak makes a big fuss over one of the last remaining Sumatran drooling rhinos in existence
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The Bornean junk monkey, Stevensons’ slug, Malaysian sitting bird and the world’s largest species of blind sea trout are in grave danger of extinction, the World Conservation Union warned an assemblage of world leaders on Tuesday to the sound of one tiny violin playing sarcastically. Also among the newly-threatened species nobody has ever heard of are the shovelnosed arctic frog, the smoke weasel, the Andean left-handed dolphin and the three-toed nervous elephant of lower Peru.
All are among 13,279 varieties critically endangered and possibly-imaginary animal, plant and water life precious to bleeding-heart liberals the world over. Many are new to this year’s edition of the group’s list, a yearly “wake-up call to the world” that unless serious changes are made to environmental policy, the earth’s biodiversity might one day shrink to comprehensible levels.
This year’s list, like all that came before it, has drawn a collective boo-hoo from the planet’s human inhabitants.
“Excuse me, but what has the Columbian rice shrew ever done for me or my family?” questioned an indignant Don Cloyd from Williamsburg, Virginia. “My uncle lost a logging job because of some stupid owl that didn’t want to live at a box at the zoo or something, so sorry if that ruined it for all the other creatures out there, but I still say animals that don’t taste good can kiss my ass.”
Various world leaders questioned about the organization’s list issued similar mock-sincere statements, vowing to halt all future economic progress in order to make the world safe for such hilariously improbable creatures as the Chilean trouser trout and the loud Spanish jackass.
Over 762 animals have gone extinct worldwide since various governments and the NRA began keeping records in the 1600’s. Among the beautiful creatures the earth will never again know are the Tittleosen snot sloth, the North American windshield sparrow and the sickly cave bear of Nepal.
Perhaps the most stirring symbol for lost species is the majestic dodo, a once-useless bird that wobbled off into the history books in the early 17th century when Dutch sailors visiting islands in the Indian Ocean discovered the birds, whose strange compulsion to hop into cooking pots and offer themselves up for soups and other entrees led quickly to their extinction.
According to the WCU, thousands more creatures will join these ranks shortly if steps are not taken to slow the destruction of their native habitats in industrialized and developing nations. Saddest of all may be the possible fate of the Scottish brownie hound, once numbering in the thousands but now thought to be down to the last one and a half specimens in existence. Even that shocking number is sinking fast as scientists are unsure of how long you can keep half a dog alive in a cooler full of ice.
In delivering the study to world leaders, WCU Director General Achim Steiner also pointed out the success of recent efforts to save formerly endangered species such as Arabian oryx and the white rhino, news which inspired several unimpressed heads of state to mouth the word “super” while mimicking the jerk-off motion with their hands.
the commune news is personally responsible for eradicating three species of roadside badgers, but if nature didn’t see fit to outfit them with reflective pelts we don’t see fit to mourn their fender-denting passing. Ted Ted is officially considered an endangered species whenever he wanders into a lesbian bar, a dangerous clash of habitats conservation experts are working hard around the clock to prevent.
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