caffeine writes:
If it makes you feel any better, nobody treated the northern population as a distinct species prior to a few years ago, while the southern population is a conservation success story. From being presumed extinct in the late nineteenth century there are now more 20,000 of them - the most populous of living rhino species.
We used to hear that a certain species was "extinct in Canada". No word on whether or not it was extinct three feet away in the US.
An honest discussion is more of a peer review than a pep rally. My toughest critics here are the people who agree with me. -- ringo