'Most people, including Australians, don’t know about most mammals in Australia,' says Jack Ashby, author of the new book Platypus Matters.
: In collection work, I’m sure more often than people realize, you find things hiding right under your nose.The problem is that we’ve got 2 million specimens that have been collected over 200 years, and computers have been around for 30 years. Decades of backlog, you know—any large museum has the same problem that you can imagine. But I think people are surprised you can’t actually come up with a list of everything in your collection.
Not only is it unfair because they are the best animals , but Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate of anywhere in the world, of all of the species that are going extinct since 1788. Of all the mammals that have gone extinct in the world since 1788 when Australia was invaded, 37% have happened in Australia. It’s more than anywhere in the world in one country. It’s lost 10% of its fauna, and much of what’s left is significantly diminished.I just don’t think it helps to call them weird.
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