The new TV show "Extinct or Alive" has apparently bagged its first big finding: that the Zanzibar leopard, presumed extinct, is still around. Here's a story with video clip. Host Forrest Galante thinks the small island leopard is what was filmed - a leopard imported from the African mainland would be bigger.
That puts "Extinct or Alive," in its first season, way ahead of "Finding Bigfoot' which taped 100 episodes without finding - well, anything. Every finding of a presumed-extinct species is a little bit of hope when we are living through Earth's sixth mass extinction. (Elizabeth Kolbert's superb book on the big picture of this ongoing catastrophe is here.)
Interesting, and I'm hopeful. Having said that, leopards are not born full sized.
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