How appropriate! The other day, I happened to be experimenting with a free AI tool by plugging in only the common and scientific names from an old book titled “The Class Mammalia” courtesy of the Biodiversity Library: for example, “Spotted Opossum” was a quoll (and came out looking like a normal Virginia opossum), “Long-nosed Pouched Badger” was a bandicoot (and came out looking like a European badger), “Cape Ant-Eater” was an aardvark (and came out looking like a lizard, an amphibian, and a South American anteater), etc. I find it quite hard to imagine that the extensive digital repositories of zoological media we have now in the Information Age will just disappear, and if so, how our current codes of biological nomenclature (as your video uses the current scientific names) would even stick around. Definitely a very fascinating idea for a video. P.S. I am reminded that the so-called “Common Grackle” is now actually a Near Threatened species in steep decline!
It is fictional and unlikely scenario for sure, I was just interested by the elephant example, and so wanted to use that to discuss extinction today. The use of scientific names is so that when I changed to common name you could still figure out what I was talking about.
How appropriate! The other day, I happened to be experimenting with a free AI tool by plugging in only the common and scientific names from an old book titled “The Class Mammalia” courtesy of the Biodiversity Library: for example, “Spotted Opossum” was a quoll (and came out looking like a normal Virginia opossum), “Long-nosed Pouched Badger” was a bandicoot (and came out looking like a European badger), “Cape Ant-Eater” was an aardvark (and came out looking like a lizard, an amphibian, and a South American anteater), etc.
I find it quite hard to imagine that the extensive digital repositories of zoological media we have now in the Information Age will just disappear, and if so, how our current codes of biological nomenclature (as your video uses the current scientific names) would even stick around.
Definitely a very fascinating idea for a video.
P.S. I am reminded that the so-called “Common Grackle” is now actually a Near Threatened species in steep decline!
It is fictional and unlikely scenario for sure, I was just interested by the elephant example, and so wanted to use that to discuss extinction today. The use of scientific names is so that when I changed to common name you could still figure out what I was talking about.
How much is the AI cost to draw