By virtue of their scarcity many of our most endangered creatures are poorly understood. After all, it is pretty hard to learn about something if it is not readily accessible and available to study. The marsupial mole is a great example. On the flip-side some organisms are just so damn ubiquitous that nobody cares to understand them at all. It is a common paradigm in ecology: common is boring. Take the seagull for example: who would want to study that?
So there are very good reasons why we don't know everything about everything. But there are some things that are neither common nor rare,neither approachable or inaccessible, not secretive or extraverted and we don't know as much as we should know about them. That is because some creatures are just so damn complex that we have little or no hope of ever understanding what makes them tick.
One such creature is the Mining Site Environmental Advisor. This is an organism that, after reaching sexual maturity, actually consciously chooses to endure a further three years of intellectual maturation and enlightenment before it intentionally immerses itself among a cohort of aggressors and antagonists where it will spend the rest of it's professional life occupying the lowliest niche in mine site ecosystem no matter how good it is at what it does.
In short, what we have here is an existential organism of moderate to high intelligence that chooses to put itself in harms way. This is completely counter intuitive and amounts to no less than 'flipping the bird' at Darwinism. How can the fittest survive if it throws it self directly in the path of an oncoming bus.
Over the coming blogs we are going to explore this anomalous creature in much detail and try and find out how this species manages to persist against all possible anthropological exigences.
