• ilmagico@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    The last of Uganda’s wild rhinos was killed in the early 1980s; the translocated animals come from a breeding program set up at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary in 2005.

    They were “extinct” in Uganda, not everywhere.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      It’s mildly annoying that the media doesn’t seem to know the word “extirpated.”

      • Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip
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        19 days ago

        I mean, even if they know it very few other people do so it wouldn’t really be a helpful headline that informs the public what the article is about…

        I appreciate you teaching me a new word though :)

      • oortjunk@sh.itjust.works
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        19 days ago

        I feel the same way about words like leucocholy, but I’m forplaint with the ugsome trend of rising of anti-intellectualism in our world today and no longer see the appeal of logomachies.