Word: cahow
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...Wingate also reports a bright spot amid the goo. The Bermuda cahow, a rare marine bird supposedly doomed by pesticides flushed into the ocean, is apparently staging a comeback. This year the world's last 24 pairs of cahows have produced twelve healthy chicks. A likely reason, Wingate thinks, might be that the rising tide of floating tar is at least temporarily absorbing the harmful pesticides...
Popular Science Monthly: "The Story of Cahow," by Professor A. E. Verrill '62; "The Evolution of the Human Intellect," by Professor E. L. Thorndike '96; "The Origin of Sex in Plants," by Dr. Bradley Moore Davis...