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Jan. 29th, 2010 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerSometime back I ran across a mention of the disease that's afflicting Tasmanian devils. It mentioned a connection to thylacines (I guess that they both survived in Tasmania after going extinct on the mainland of Australia).
Well, The John Muir Trust, a UK conservation organization I'm a member of, sent me an email asking me to vote for them in a poll to determine who gets a big Euro conservation grant. I was looking up the other organizations to see what they're like, and read this piece on Ennerdale Water in Cumbria (which looks like a beautiful place to go walking!)
And it's home to the legend of the Girt Dog of Ennerdale.
Which, apparently, people now think may have been a thylacine that escaped after being imported from Australia.
The world (or at least Wikipedia) is a wonderfully weird place.
Well, The John Muir Trust, a UK conservation organization I'm a member of, sent me an email asking me to vote for them in a poll to determine who gets a big Euro conservation grant. I was looking up the other organizations to see what they're like, and read this piece on Ennerdale Water in Cumbria (which looks like a beautiful place to go walking!)
And it's home to the legend of the Girt Dog of Ennerdale.
Which, apparently, people now think may have been a thylacine that escaped after being imported from Australia.
The world (or at least Wikipedia) is a wonderfully weird place.
