• ChanchoManco@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    If it was already known to locals was it really discovered in 2007? Wouldn’t that be more like categorized or registered?

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      2 months ago

      “Undiscovered species” are almost always known of by locals. What it really means is that no scientist ever bothered asking the locals to show them the animals they knew about.