Arthur Little
9th January 2016, 18:21
Oh no :NoNo: ... not ANOTHER 'Google Doodle! :cwm24: ... so what does this one represent?
Here, then, is the link to an incredible story behind a search that spanned several decades before it finally came to a head in 1975 with the discovery - by a team of Canadian zoologist volunteers -
of the winter habitat of a rare species ... known as the Monarch Butterfly.
Distinguishable by its predominantly orange wingspan surrounded by black trimming with white polka-dot features, it attaches itself to oyamel trees in the Eastern Mexican Sierra Madre Mountains.
www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/12090770/What-is-the-Mountain-of-Butterflies-Google-Doodle-tribute-to-41st-anniversary-of-the-great-monarch-butterfly-discovery.html ... see it here.
Whilst :iagree: it may not arouse the same degree of curiosity and/or excitement as David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef exploration - currently being televised on early Sunday evenings - I'm confident
it'll appeal to those of you who are interested in the naturalist world. :smile:
Hence the reason for computer screens displaying this Google-Doodle. Today marks the anniversary of an IMPORTANT discovery ... 41 years ago! :wink:
Here, then, is the link to an incredible story behind a search that spanned several decades before it finally came to a head in 1975 with the discovery - by a team of Canadian zoologist volunteers -
of the winter habitat of a rare species ... known as the Monarch Butterfly.
Distinguishable by its predominantly orange wingspan surrounded by black trimming with white polka-dot features, it attaches itself to oyamel trees in the Eastern Mexican Sierra Madre Mountains.
www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/12090770/What-is-the-Mountain-of-Butterflies-Google-Doodle-tribute-to-41st-anniversary-of-the-great-monarch-butterfly-discovery.html ... see it here.
Whilst :iagree: it may not arouse the same degree of curiosity and/or excitement as David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef exploration - currently being televised on early Sunday evenings - I'm confident
it'll appeal to those of you who are interested in the naturalist world. :smile:
Hence the reason for computer screens displaying this Google-Doodle. Today marks the anniversary of an IMPORTANT discovery ... 41 years ago! :wink: