Indiana Jones helps link tiger threat to global poverty

Susan SmithJun 12th, 2008 - 09:16:02

Wonder if in say, ten thousand years, someone will care so much for a lost species that they undertake a study to find out what happened to this animal and why = and if they are good archaeologists, honest, researching the details and many layers of the issue and they have a few sentences they'd love to tell us - their ancestors would it sound something like this, 'And while we have deeply researched all the major causes of the Tiger's extinction, we still find it odd that the journals of pre-adolescent females of this time are often found to share the same drawings of these animals with the grade school children. No one else in the society at the time but one actor - Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford said in one minute what it has taken us all this time to find an answer to. Side note: He is famous for the Indiana Jones series of movies at the turn of the century wherein he plays an archaeologist. We have also found a cashe of notebooks from that period that have images of Tigers on them as well as jewlery. And, digging deeper into history by a jump of 5000 years, we see a group called the Ancient Egyptians who also were making statues and jewlery of animals that were, to them, important and kept on special preserves. Seems those living in the beginning of the year 2000 were so unconcerned with the flesh and bone of the true animals that they had a necklace made and were satisfied to imagine that they had once upon a time shared the planet with the animals drawn on their paper notebooks.

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