Bisaya animals are hiding from scientists

Some French people “discovered” thousands of mollusks and crust-asians off the coast of Bohol. Too bad I wasn’t there though, I would’ve called 1st dibs on one of the urchins (tuyom) or sea cucumbers (bat) they may have “discovered” and named them after me. A few years ago, another group of balding scientists in their 70’s “discovered” a parrot that was already a pet in many homes on the island province of Camiguin.

If these scientists start finding fossil remains of pusit in my mom’s backyard and claim them to be “new discoveries” i’ll swim out there myself, pretend I was a new species, and then hijack their boats demanding free lanzones (lan-son-es). Sorry but to me, new species = new dishes. Uy lamia’! Photo of Loriculus camiguinensis by Thomas Arndt, courtesy of The Field Museum.