Rare owl that disappeared for 125 years reappears in Malaysia, with orange eyes, meaning the environment has changed?

The nature of the earth is full of vitality all the time. Hundreds of animals are thriving and people are one of them. Especially in spring, a variety of animals roam around in the dense jungle, snakes, geckos, ants, rabbits, wild boars. , earthworms, sparrows, mosquitoes, etc., so lively.

However, scientific research has found that the total number of animal species on the earth has been on a downward trend. Almost every year, a variety of animals have gone extinct without receiving attention, especially those large species that eat a lot. If there is no legal protection, I am afraid that Long gone without a trace, tigers, elephants, rhinos and more.

The number of species is getting smaller and smaller, and finally it is completely invisible, and it has not appeared for many years. By convention, it is considered to be extinct, but there are exceptions. Some species disappear for a long time and then reappear again. Appeared, there is an animal in Malaysia that disappeared for more than a century, and now it is reappearing.

In 1892, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, an ornithologist at the British Museum in London, described a rare owl from Borneo: about 4 ounces, up to 9 inches, and not very large , but looks fierce, with a curved brow and black stripes on his chest.

The most striking feature of this rare owl is the orange iris, which looks very beautiful. Sharp also named the owl after a local celebrity, James Brooke, to know Brooke In the mid-19th century, it ruled most of Borneo.

Unexpectedly, this rare owl has not been found in Borneo since then, and despite Richard Bowdler Sharp's efforts to find it and to study it in depth again, these ultimately All became a bubble, which also became one of the regrets that Richard Bowdler Sharp brought into the coffin.

Not seen for more than a century, the rare owl is considered by scientists to be completely extinct, but a new scientific report this year states that researchers confirmed that they had found the rare owl again in 2016, and took high-definition photos of the location. is in the forest of Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia.

From the photo, the owl looks fierce, with big, round eyes and an orange iris. According to the photographer, the owl first flew out of the dense dark corner, then landed, and then flew away, but it didn't take long for it to fly back.

What does it mean? environment has changed

As we all know, owl is a kind of bird animal with strong survival ability and strong hunting ability. If its number is getting smaller and smaller, it means that the earth's environment has changed. There are two aspects to the change. First, habitat The area of ​​forests is decreasing. Second, the climate and environment of the earth are changing.

It is understood that the decline of the rare owl in Borneo is due to the loss of bird habitat caused by deforestation, climate change and palm oil development on Borneo's Kinabalu Mountains. Although scientists can find the rare owl again, it does not mean that its population has recovered, it may just be found by chance.

Various scientific data have confirmed that the earth's environment is developing in a bad direction. For example, the impact of the greenhouse effect is becoming more and more obvious, the melting rate of glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic is getting faster and faster, and microplastic pollution is becoming more and more common. Not only Microplastics have been found in areas where humans often live, tens of thousands of meters of deep ocean trenches, and Mount Everest, which is more than 8,000 meters high.

Multiple animals reappear after being declared extinct

Guam in the Pacific Ocean originally had a non-flying native bird "Guam Orbit", which numbered as many as 70,000. It could make a loud chirping sound and live here carefree. Due to the abundant food on the island, they did not need to fly to find them. Food, over time, their wings degenerated, they lost the ability to fly, and they practiced the stunt of running fast on land.

But by the beginning of the 20th century, the United States frequently visited the island and brought terrifying brown tree snakes to the island. Even if the Guam rail could run again, it would not be able to escape the predation of the sinister and venomous palm tree snake. Within a few years, the Guam rail was caught The snake was eaten up. In 1987, scientists saw the Guam Orbit for the last time and never saw it again, and the Guam Orbit was declared extinct.

But in 2020, people discovered the Guam rail again in Guam. It turned out that the United States implemented the Guam Ecological Environment Restoration Plan in 2010, introduced the Guam rail from other islands many times, and killed the Guam palm snake, and the Guam rail finally appeared again. in front of people's eyes.

The Somali Senji rat used to live on the Somali Peninsula in eastern Africa, with a long trunk, so some people call it the elephant shrew. Since the 20th century, the number of elephant shrew has been decreasing. After 1968, people have never seen the elephant shrew. It is thought to be extinct and will not reappear.

But in 2020, experts once again discovered a rat like a shrew in the jungles of Djibouti and Ethiopia in Africa. At first they thought it was a new species, but it was finally confirmed to be an elephant shrew. This shows that the elephant shrew is not really extinct. It also exists in other areas, and it will not be long before it will recover.