Day 161: What Did Batman Say To Robin... About Saving the Dodo Bird

Holy endangered species Batman!

What would you do if you saw an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?

I'm going to begin answering this question with two questions:

1. Do you know what Bennett's seaweed looks like?

2. Do you know what a Dodo Bird looks like?

My guess is that you answered the first question with something along the lines of, "Bennett's seaweed probably looks like regular seaweed" or "Huh?" I also think you probably answered the second question with, "Of course! It's an extinct bird made up of miscellaneous foul parts because it's the platypus of birds!"

Both Bennett's seaweed and the Dodo bird are extinct. But unless you're a botanist or in the Save the Seaweed club, you've probably never heard of Bennett's seaweed nor knew it was extinct.

But it's common knowledge that the Dodo Bird is extinct, which is the same thing that could happen to today's endangered tigers and my beloved polar bears. I won't stand for my darling Arctic killers joining the Dodo in history books instead of zoos or the Arctic ice.

So what would I do if I saw a polar bear eating running buffalo clover? After I was done wondering why a vegetarian polar bear was in Ohio, I'd let him eat it. I'd desperately miss the polar bear but not the jogging bison... eh whatever it's called.