You Know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!
The creature is so ancient, I bet it could tell you if dinosaurs were exterminated by a gigantic meteor or cosmic solar blast. The little monkey creature was probably around the night that Eve pointed out the red shiny thing in the tree. “Bad move,” the little monkey hissed as the world suddenly went to hell in a hand basket.
What makes me particularly sad, the fact that this creature has avoided detection since man began notating species. And as you undoubtedly know by now, Man loves to categorize stuff. Bugs and leaves and stars and ex wives; if it can be counted and studied and documented, scientists and anthropologists and biologists have done it.
Don’t you think if the Dianne Fosseys and Charles Leakeys of the world knew about this teeny tiny little monkey, they would have studied it? But they didn’t study it, because they didn’t know it existed. They didn’t know. Nobody knew.
Like a ghost in the evolutionary machine, the Tamarin has lived a quiet little non existent life for thousands of years. It was hiding in a tree or under a leaf. Basically minding its own tiny little business.
Then all of a sudden, BAM! Man and his big ass bull dozer rolls into the jungle and starts weed whacking the crap out of everything.
To the little monkey, the mechanized piece of steel rolled up to his monkey home burping toxic fumes and churning up dirt. The machine screamed angrily at him, then knocked down his tree house with a battering ram’s vengence.
If the monkey was crazier, he would have Flipped the bull dozer driver the bird. But the monkey is too small and too polite to flip anyone or anything the bird.
If it was a Gorilla, he’d crap in his hand and throw it at you. If it was a giraffe he’s spit a loogey on your head from 3 stories up. But Tamarin can’t spit. and when they poo, it’s so small, so delicate, you need a microscope to know if he really passed waste.
The sad irony to this whole twisted story is this. As man destroys the jungle, creatures that had never been known are being revealed. Before man barged in smoking his cigarettes, driving his earth movers and stomping on the flower garden of existence, creatures like this existed easily and without care.
But now….
The monkey’s jungle canopy is being stripped away, exposing the delicate species to the harsh uncertainty of the elements, and awkward stare of man.
The little monkey once lived in the darkness, now it needs Ray Bans and some Coppertone.
2) Madagascar Fish Eagle. Madagascar is known as the hottest hotspot, both because of its rich biodiversity, and because deforestation and other threats are destroying wildlife on the island. The Fish Eagle, found in highly limited numbers along the west coast, is no exception.
3) Black Rhino. The population of the black rhino declined by 90% over the last six decades, thanks chiefly to poaching. But since the mid 1990s — when fewer than 3,000 of the African rhino existed — the population has increased steadily, and now there are over 4,000.
4) Baiji Dolphin Also known as the Yangtze dolphin, and found in the river in China, the Baiji is the most endangered cetacean in the world. It may already be extinct.
My advice to humanity is sort of like my wife’s advice to me.