#Pyrenean Ibex

[claspings]

haunted by the first event in the year 2000 wikipedia timeline being an extinction

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Animal of the Day!

Pyrenean Ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica)

(Photo in Public Domain)

Extinction Date- 2000

Habitat- Pyrenees Mountains

Size (Weight/Length)- 65 kg; 115 cm

Diet- Grasses

Cool Facts- The Pyrenean ibex, or the bucardo, was a subspecies of the Iberian ibex. These ibex were experts in their mountain homes. Specially adapted hooves let them cling to a nearly sheer cliff face. They lived in small groups but females tended to form separate herds from the males outside of the mating season. Hunting pressure by humans and resource pressure by livestock forced the Pyrenean ibex into a tiny population in the Ordesa National Park. On January 6, 2000, the last Pyrenean ibex named Celia was found dead under a fallen tree. At least… until 2003. The Pyrenean ibex was the first species to become unextinct for the span of about ten minutes when a cloned ibex was born. She passed away due to lung defects and another attempt has not occurred due to ethical concerns and conservation efforts turning towards the remaining Iberian ibex subspecies. 

Rating- 13/10 (Saving endangered species should be focused on before bringing back extinct ones.)

[fox-teeth]

Did you know that we once kinda, sorta, almost lived the dream of using cloning to bring extinct animals back to life?

Read all about it in my upcoming comic “The Second Extinction of the Pyrenean Ibex” by backing the Failure to Launch anthology project from Iron Circus Comics--now in its final 48 hours!

[violetsandshrikes]

“Celia” and her narrative have become a product of the chapter in the ungulate’s life where she is as an endling, a clone, and then the world’s only double extinction. In this story, Celia is unlucky, tragic, lost, alone, la última of her kind. (An endling of this trope is very strong in David Quammen’s The Song of the Dodo, where he asks the readers to imagine the last, lonely, little old lady dodo bird at the end of her species.) In this sort of telling, an endling like Celia draws heavily in popular imagination and prevention to what environmental scholar Ursula Heise calls a “gender fiction” involving “elegiac tropes of the bereaved mother and wife, as well as that of the elderly lady with health problems.” It’s much more tragic, it invokes so much more pathos, for the story of an endling to be told as a sad old lady ibex who died, alone, without family to mourn her.

“Laña,” on the other hand, was the name and persona that people in Torla had ascribed to the bucardo in her life and memorialized after her death. The bucardo museum was founded in April 2013, admist a whirlwind of discussion about possibly trying to clone Celia- that is, Laña- again. The museum, which successfully fought to curate Laña’s taxidermied remains, was emphatic in its commitment to the last bucardo being remembered in situ. That she should be “home” and visible to the community. “Being here, in Torla, meant that the bucardo could find new meanings outside of the realm of technoscience,” Searle notes. “Laña lives on.”

- Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene, by Lydia Pyne

[writerbeemedina]

Today is the 20th anniversary of Celia, the last Pyrenean Ibex’s clone’s birth and death. It died of lung complications after just seven minutes. It was the only species to go extinct TWICE in history.

Gone but not forgotten. 💔

Art by yours truly!

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[andycmarshall]

Cold Hard Art

I’ve ventured into new but somehow familiar territory with my latest works—abstract ai assisted wallpaper artworks featuring the extinct Pyrenean Ibex. This time, my beloved Hypno Bat isn’t as deeply hidden within the patterns of the wallpaper. Instead, I’ve been experimenting with tinting the wallpaper in subtle shades, creating a more prominent yet still mysterious presence. In these new…

[orca-in-disguise]

Critter fact #98:

The pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica), a subspecies of iberian ibex, went extinct twice. First in 2000, when the last of its subspecies died. It was then cloned in 2003, but the clone died quickly, marking the second extinction of this subspecies

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i need to research when certain animals went extinct for the headworld but uhghhghhh

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in England – Vincent Lunardi // A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains – Gideon Algernon Mantell, James Parkinson, Edmund Tyrell Artis // Potorous Platyops – John Gould // Thylacinus Cynocephalus, Juvenile – Joseph Wolf // Choeropus Castanotis – John Gould // Hippotragus Leucophaeus – Joseph Smit, Joseph Wolf // Hapalotis Albipipes – John Gould // Pyrenean Ibex – Richard Lydekker, Joseph Wolf // Eastern Elk – John James Audubon // Royigerygone Insularis – Gregory Macalister Matthews, Henrik Grönvold // Sceloglaux Albifacies – John Gerrard Keulemans // Leporillus Apicalis – John Gould // Columba Migratoria – John James Audubon, J. T. Bowen // Moho Apicalis – John Gerrard Keulmans // ...Familiar Place – Lucy Dacus

for @artists-ache 💙🌹 📖

[ultrainfinitepit]

Ooo for the palette challenge, how about Cupids Arrow 💘 or Spiked Punch🍹?

Pyrenean Ibex + Livingstone's Fruit Bat Angel, in Cupid's Arrow

Angel of Extinction redraw, in Spiked Punch

Bonus colorway and a comparison to the original Angel of Extinction

[fox-teeth]

Yay my comp copies of Failure to Launch from Iron Circus Comics are here!

Doing “The Second Extinction of the Pyrenean Ibex” for this anthology was an art bucket list project in many ways and I’m very excited to see it get out into the world!

I’ll be selling copies at Flame Con in August, if you’re in attendance come check it out—the rainbow holographic cover looks so cool in person. Or find it in your local bookstore or library later this month!

[contremineur]

There are many ways to understand the word lost, my love. When you were born, the last Pyrenean ibex, a tawny female named Celia, had not yet lived to see the view from Torla overlooking Monte Perdido, but her great- grandsire stood on the cliffs of Ordesa, positioned on hoof-tips dainty as dimes, and he shook his impregnable skull, a coffer of brass and nobility crowned with bayonets, as though in defiance of all who dwelt in the highlands from Catalonia to Aquitaine. Their kind is vanished now. Forever lost. Perdido. And when you dressed in a Girl Guide’s uniform of Persian blue on Tuesday nights, my love, in the long-lost basement of Grace United Church, to play indoor baseball and make believe that faerie magic could make you rich or important or happy, pods of baiji dolphins still swam in a river you’d never heard of and would not think about until years later, when together we would learn from the evening news that the baiji were lost, at last, from the Yangtze, and in their place there came a universal emptiness. There are many ways to understand the word lost, but it does not help to imagine a secret place where lost things go. When last I held you in my arms, my love, the West African black rhinoceros was still magnificent and still alive, but now the gentleness of your breath on my bare neck is as lost as the dusty, confident snort of that once breath-taking beast. Great strength is no protection, and neither is love. We are born, and our births are lost. We can’t go back to them. Each embrace ends with an ending. When we become, what we once thought we’d be is lost. We keep becoming.

Paul Vermeersch, Lost things

from here – thank you, poet-locker (lost since December 2015)

[stringsnwires]

Did you know that the Pyrenean ibex is the only animal with two extinction dates? 2000 and 2003.

I ain't ever heard'a those things in my time neither. What gives?

[endofherwildsideau]

Extinct Tribe

Extinction Alphas:

Chief Fang the Extinction Alpha

Princess Star the Dire Wolf Alpha

Manny the Mammoth Alpha

Sid the Ground Sloth Alpha

Pocahontas the Tasmanian Tiger Alpha

Themba the Quagga Alpha

Darby the Irish Elk Alpha

Spencer the Pyrenean Ibex Alpha

Due the Falkland Islands Wolf Alpha

Guards:

Diego the Smilodon

Arturo the Cave Bear

Citizens:

???

Companion Pet:

Malachi the Passenger Pigeon

Polly the Pet Dodo

Al the Great Auk

Spirit Animal/Silbling:

Fiadh the Carolina Parakeet

Min the Baiji

Gael the Giant Aurochs