The
heaviest losses are taking place
in five regions, according to a new report sponsored by the National Geographic
Society and the
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages: Oklahoma and the southwestern U.S., central South America, eastern Siberia, northern Australia and the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
Read previous Zoologger columns: How weakness makes the crayfish stronger, The
heaviest animal
in the air, Ancient air - breathing, triple - jawed fish, Horror fly returns from the dead, Even parasitic worms have a divided
society, Shrimp plays chicken with its sex change, Death by world's longest animal,
Live birth, evolving before our eyes, Sympathy for the piranha, The world's most fecund vertebrate.