Reading the non-fictionalized story of her life and death in Rwanda, Dian Fossey, who died 40 years ago today, comes off as a racist in many ways, in addition to generally being clueless about anything of sociology or social psychology that might have helped her deal with the locals in her research
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Sharks on the mountaintops? Well, if they're undersea mountain "constellations," you bet. Seamounts support high oceanic biodiversity in general, so that's where the sharks head.
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Rhinos in the Arctic tens of millions of years ago do more than show the mobility, and evolutionary mobility, of mammals.
They also show the possible future of climate change. Unfortunately, that wasn't discussed. The reality is that, if we hit 5°C by the end of this century, you'll have rhinos wanting to move into Europe and northern Asia out of Africa and southern Asia, at least. Of course, due to human population and larger habitat destruction, that won't be easy. Nonetheless, NPR had an opportunity to talk here.
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