Stephen Heard: There's actually some (mixed) evidence that critter names affect public interest in their conservation! There's definitely evidence that critter names affect media coverage (and thus public awareness).

There's actually some (mixed) evidence that critter names affect public interest in their conservation! There's definitely evidence that critter names affect media coverage (and thus public awareness).

scientists should forget all that stuff about taxonomy and population genetics and just focus on new species critter names as the primary pathway to conservation action

I do not oppose the dumbo octopus 🥰

As written about by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/whys...

www.scientificamerican.com/article/coul...

Could an Animal’s Name Save It from Extinction?www.scientificamerican.com Taxonomists name a new snail after the cement company that holds its fate

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social - so did naming the snail after the company mining the hillside it lives on work?!?!

To be continued…

Nice parallel to the Argos palm! (As written about my me🙂) scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2021/09/15/t...

Taxonomy as activismscientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com Once upon a time, the Latin names of species were always descriptive (and always in Latin, for that matter, which they needn’t be now.). That system didn’t work very well*, and in the mid-18th century...

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