{"id":17433,"date":"2020-03-10T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/?p=17433"},"modified":"2020-03-10T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T22:51:00","slug":"the-curse-of-the-labrador-duck-an-ornithologists-obsessive-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/science\/ornithology\/the-curse-of-the-labrador-duck-an-ornithologists-obsessive-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Kletba labradorsk\u00e9 kachny: posedl\u00e1 v\u011bdeck\u00e1 v\u00fdprava ornitologa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Z\u00e1hadn\u00e1 labradorsk\u00e1 kachna: posedl\u00e1 v\u011bdeck\u00e1 v\u00fdprava ornitologa<\/h2>\n\n

Vyhynul\u00e1 labradorsk\u00e1 kachna<\/h2>\n\n

Labradorsk\u00e1 kachna (Camptorhynchus labradorius) je vyhynul\u00fd druh, kter\u00fd upoutal ornitologa Glenna Chiltona. P\u0159esto\u017ee pt\u00e1k nem\u00e1 \u017e\u00e1dnou mimo\u0159\u00e1dnou viz\u00e1\u017e, Chilton se vydal na \u201eposedlou v\u00fdpravu” nav\u0161t\u00edvit ka\u017ed\u00fd zb\u00fdvaj\u00edc\u00ed exempl\u00e1\u0159 tohoto tajemn\u00e9ho ope\u0159ence. O sv\u00e9m putov\u00e1n\u00ed napsal knihu \u201eKletba labradorsk\u00e9 kachny: m\u00e1 posedl\u00e1 cesta za vyhuben\u00edm.\u201c<\/p>\n\n

Malba labradorsk\u00e9 kachny od Johna J. Audubona<\/h2>\n\n

Audubonova malba labradorsk\u00e9 kachny, tehdy zn\u00e1m\u00e9 jako kachna strakat\u00e1, zachycuje samici a samce na svahu s v\u00fdhledem na mo\u0159e. Samcova neobvykl\u00e1 p\u00f3za si vyslou\u017eila z\u00e1porn\u00e9 recenze, zat\u00edmco samice stoj\u00ed pobl\u00ed\u017e a tv\u00e1\u0159\u00ed se pobaven\u011b.<\/p>\n\n

Exempl\u00e1\u0159e labradorsk\u00e9 kachny: cesta kolem sv\u011bta<\/h2>\n\n

Po cel\u00e9m sv\u011bt\u011b je zn\u00e1mo jen 55 exempl\u00e1\u0159\u016f labradorsk\u00e9 kachny, kter\u00e9 jsou roztrou\u0161eny po Severn\u00ed Americe a Evrop\u011b. Chilton podnikl rozs\u00e1hl\u00e9 cesty r\u016fzn\u00fdmi dopravn\u00edmi prost\u0159edky, aby je v\u0161echny vid\u011bl a zm\u011b\u0159il. Jeho v\u00fdprava ho zavedla do muze\u00ed velk\u00fdch i mal\u00fdch, mimo jin\u00e9 do smithsonovsk\u00e9ho N\u00e1rodn\u00edho muzea p\u0159\u00edrodn\u00ed historie, kde jsou uchov\u00e1v\u00e1ny \u010dty\u0159i exempl\u00e1\u0159e.<\/p>\n\n

Taxidermie a recenze muze\u00ed<\/h2>\n\n

Chiltonovy popisy expon\u00e1t\u016f poskytuj\u00ed vhled do technik vycp\u00e1v\u00e1n\u00ed zv\u00ed\u0159at. Tak\u00e9 nab\u00edz\u00ed z\u00e1bavn\u00e9 recenze muze\u00ed a kur\u00e1tor\u016f, se kter\u00fdmi se setkal. Smithsonovsk\u00e9 N\u00e1rodn\u00ed muzeum p\u0159\u00edrodn\u00ed historie z\u00edskalo jeho souhlas, i kdy\u017e jsou tamn\u00ed exempl\u00e1\u0159e kachen trochu o\u0161unt\u011bl\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n

Cesta za kachnou \u010d\u00edslo 55: \u0161estilet\u00e9 putov\u00e1n\u00ed<\/h2>\n\n

P\u00e1tr\u00e1n\u00ed po posledn\u00edm, tedy 55. exempl\u00e1\u0159i labradorsk\u00e9 kachny, bylo t\u00e9m\u011b\u0159 fantastick\u00e9. Trvalo \u0161est let a pod\u00edlel se na n\u011bm i \u0161ejk Sa\u00fad z Kataru. Chilton je p\u0159esv\u011bd\u010den, \u017ee identifikoval v\u0161echny existuj\u00edc\u00ed exempl\u00e1\u0159e, a vypsal odm\u011bnu 10 000 dolar\u016f za jak\u00e9koli nov\u00e9 objevy.<\/p>\n\n

Stopy po ztracen\u00fdch exempl\u00e1\u0159\u00edch<\/h2>\n\n

Zaj\u00edmav\u00e9 stopy nazna\u010duj\u00ed, \u017ee by mohly existovat i dal\u0161\u00ed exempl\u00e1\u0159e labradorsk\u00e9 kachny. Jeden byl \u00fadajn\u011b ukraden z Americk\u00e9ho p\u0159\u00edrodov\u011bdn\u00e9ho muzea p\u0159ed n\u011bkolika desetilet\u00edmi. Dal\u0161\u00ed se mohl nach\u00e1zet v Brooklynsk\u00e9m muzeu a\u017e do roku 1935. Chilton netrp\u011bliv\u011b o\u010dek\u00e1v\u00e1 jak\u00e9koli informace o jejich osudu.<\/p>\n\n

Kletba labradorsk\u00e9 kachny<\/h2>\n\n

Chiltonova kniha je v\u00edc ne\u017e jen p\u00e1tr\u00e1n\u00ed po vyhynul\u00fdch pt\u00e1c\u00edch. Je to mix v\u011bdy, cestopisu a osobn\u00edch historek, kter\u00e9 nab\u00edzej\u00ed pohled do sv\u011bta ornitologie a z\u00e1hadn\u00e9 povahy vyhynut\u00ed. P\u0159esto\u017ee kachna nen\u00ed \u017e\u00e1dn\u00fd krasavec, Chiltonova v\u00e1\u0161e\u0148 pro jeho t\u00e9ma z knihy p\u0159\u00edmo \u010di\u0161\u00ed, co\u017e z n\u00ed d\u011bl\u00e1 poutav\u00e9 \u010dten\u00ed pro kohokoli, kdo se zaj\u00edm\u00e1 o p\u0159\u00edrodn\u00ed historii, v\u00fdzkum a tajemstv\u00ed minulosti.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Z\u00e1hadn\u00e1 labradorsk\u00e1 kachna: posedl\u00e1 v\u011bdeck\u00e1 v\u00fdprava ornitologa Vyhynul\u00e1 labradorsk\u00e1 kachna Labradorsk\u00e1 kachna (Camptorhynchus labradorius) je vyhynul\u00fd druh, kter\u00fd upoutal ornitologa Glenna Chiltona. P\u0159esto\u017ee pt\u00e1k nem\u00e1 \u017e\u00e1dnou mimo\u0159\u00e1dnou viz\u00e1\u017e, Chilton se…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2335],"tags":[4369,22920,22919,584,141,6415],"class_list":["post-17433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ornithology","tag-audubon","tag-travelogue","tag-labrador-duck","tag-ornithology","tag-natural-history","tag-extinct-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17434,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions\/17434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}