The British company EnviroBuild have named a new species of amphibians in honor of Donald trump, comparing the behaviour of amphibious with the position of President of the United States in relation to climate change on the planet. For the right to name an animal found in Panama, Dermophis donaldtrumpi the company paid at auction for $25 thousand.
«Finding the similarities between the amazing, but a hitherto unknown creature and the leader of the free world, we were not able to resist the purchase of [the] law,» said CNN Aidan bell, co-founder of EnviroBuild, specializing in environmentally friendly building materials.
According to the statement EnviroBuild, the newly discovered animal is ceciliam — legless amphibians, which is usedonmost of life spent underground. About 60 million years ago amphibian lost his limbs and now resembles a huge worm, but it has tentacles to help it find prey.
Dermophis donaldtrumpi.
New amphibian species named after the person elected by US people as president. https://t.co/PSCf5R7CZF pic.twitter.com/NpNG3Ogc9S
— Tibor Hartel (@harteltibor) December 18, 2018
«Because demorphis donaldtrumpi is an amphibian, it is particularly vulnerable to climate change and therefore at risk to die as a direct result of climate policies of its namesake,» reads the statement Bella.
The American leader has long been known for its skepticism on climate change.
«Global warming is a universal and very expensive hoax,» wrote Donald trump on Twitter in 2013, and his position, it seems not much has changed since then as he became President.
Becoming the head of the White house, trump said the US withdrawal from the Paris agreement on climate and erased climate change from the list national threats.
Leading scientists agree that climate change is caused primarily by human activities, but the President of the United States continues to doubt that the increase in temperature on Earth is responsible Homo sapiens.
«I do not deny climate change, but [temperatures] could return,» he said in an interview — without any argument.
Worm-like species named «Dermophis donaldtrumpi» after Trump’s climate policies https://t.co/kgmiSa66YB pic.twitter.com/O0BrCyuLN4
— Zoe Tabary (@zoetabary) December 18, 2018
Dermophis donaldtrumpi is not the first animal named after trump. In 2017, the biologist Azrikam Nazari, studying the collection of the Museum of entomology Bogart at the University of California, discovered the butterfly. According to the scientist, the unique color of the head of the butterfly reminded him of the President of the United States, so he called it a Lepidoptera Neopalpa donaldtrumpi. And in 2016, the name of the 45th President received a fossil species of sea urchins Tetragramma donaldtrumpi.
By the way, such «achievements» can boast not only the current us leader. In honor of his predecessor, Barack Obama, was named the 14 newly-discovered inhabitants of the planet Earth.
