This Hawaiian island's 'freakosystems'

[Rob Tucker]

From the BBC...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250...-by-humans
"O'ahu's mountainous terrain – a filming location that has evoked heroic, untrammelled wildernesses in the Jurassic Park and King Kong films – is shaped "at every level" by human action, says Jef Vizentin-Bugoni, a Brazilian ecologist at Universidade Federal de Pelota who researched the island's birds with Tarwater. He recalls having his expectations upturned when he arrived on the island in 2017, eager to see Hawaii's famous honeycreepers, a set of brightly coloured native bird species that exist nowhere else in the world. Instead, he was first confronted with an unfamiliar flurry of red and white feathers, which turned out to be a red-whiskered bulbul, a bird whose native range spans from India to Southern China. "

[Durian Fiend]

That's a clever and descriptive new word. Thanks for sharing the article. Our ecosystems sure can change rapidly and dramatically.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Yes, good article.  I enjoyed the detail that it was the researcher‘s daughter who came up with the term freakosystem, for native wild areas replaced with nonnatives.  I wonder what she would call Waikiki or downtown Honolulu which replaces indigenous birds and trees with buildings and highways?

[kalianna]

Yuckosystem?

[Wao nahele wahine]

Yuckosystem?

Or replace that 'Y' with an 'F'.