• marcos@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    “A new species discovered” means “hey, we noticed nobody ever catalogued that one!”

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      2 days ago

      Yeah! And, I don’t even necessarily mean to discount ignoring indigenous folks, which definitely can be a thing, but it really really does come down to sometimes folks just don’t write it down. I’ve seen a video (I wanna say a Smarter Everyday video) where they were in some South American jungle/rain forest or whatever and they very casually shine a light at a cloth to get moths to land on it, and they found like one or two new species.

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          20 hours ago

          Could be, that’s another channel I watch often. I might be getting some of Smarter Everyday’s other nature oriented videos confused because I don’t think Standup Maths does many.