Scientists said on Tuesday they had found a "Lost World" in an Indonesian mountain jungle, home to dozens of exotic new species of birds, butterflies, frogs and plants
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Wildlife species have their own habitats. Some are bound to travel (or be spread by humans -- invasive species), and some end up highly specializing into their environment over the course of millions of years.
There will be an insect species that will feed on a single species of orchids that can only grow in one place in the rainforest, or maybe there is a palm tree that ..simply doesn't get to get up and move if there are any changes in the environment, so it adapts to it and loses its ability to live in any other conditions. The frogs that they found live in those lakes and have no motive to get out and travel through millions of acres to reach other parts of the jungle.
This particular case was of a patch of the jungle that no one ever goes to. The overabundance of resources outside of it never prompted any natives to risk going into the depths. So, while some of the species could have been driven to near extinction outside of the area, some had their sanctuary inside.
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There will be an insect species that will feed on a single species of orchids that can only grow in one place in the rainforest, or maybe there is a palm tree that ..simply doesn't get to get up and move if there are any changes in the environment, so it adapts to it and loses its ability to live in any other conditions. The frogs that they found live in those lakes and have no motive to get out and travel through millions of acres to reach other parts of the jungle.
This particular case was of a patch of the jungle that no one ever goes to. The overabundance of resources outside of it never prompted any natives to risk going into the depths. So, while some of the species could have been driven to near extinction outside of the area, some had their sanctuary inside.
This is FASCINATING.
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