Readers of PNG know that US Person is a fan of Sir David Attenborough, the well-know naturalist and narrator of BBC's excellent nature programs. But he did not know that Attenborough also has the honor of an animal namesake. The long-beaked echinda of New Guinea (Zaglossus attenborougi) is named after him. But the species had not been seen in sixty years in its home of the Cyclops Mountains, that is until a trail camera captured video of one om the last day of a four week expedition led by an Oxford University scientist. James Kempton retrieve the image from the last memory card of eighty cameras scattered about the forest. He was elated at the discovery, since the shy, burrowing creature is notoriously difficult to find in the wild. His team survived an earthquake, malaria and even a leech attached to an eyeball!
