@marisa This reminds me very strongly of the video footage of the last thylacene; pacing in a cage, unable to hear or smell any of its kind as they'd been wiped out, made extinct. Breaks my heart so bad every time.

https://youtu.be/o79vefZC-aQ?si=g0eEpTjuVfPYrkjQ

@peha @catdad @marisa

Urusula K Le Guin's father was an anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1911 he met and sheltered/studied/befriended/worked with the last living member of the Yahi-Yana native people of the area, Ishi.

'Ishi, which means "man" in the Yana language, is an adopted name. The anthropologist Alfred Kroeber gave him this name because in the Yahi culture, tradition demanded that he not speak his own name until formally introduced by another Yahi. When asked his name, he said: "I have none, because there were no people to name me"'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi