NATURE | Life in Death Valley | Devil's Hole Pupfish | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/life-in-death-valley/introduction/5071/ Biologists are on a mission to save Death Valley's most precious treasure -- the tiny Devil's Hole Pupfish, featured in NATURE's Life in Death Valley airing on Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 8 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

Life in Death Valley captures the simmering cauldron of Death Valley, the hottest, driest place in the US, epic in its beauty but punishing in its brutal extremes. In a scorched landscape marked by endless miles of salt flats, molten rock canyons, and lunar craters, survival is a miracle in itself. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/life-in-death-valley/introduction/5071/

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[idDeltaQDelta]

If they don't know how deep it is, how do they know there's not like a million of those fish further down?

[shortpotato26]

Stop diving down there...?

[Meerkatmatt2]

@Snurremegrundt I have heard that scientists have made two of sort of back up ponds each with pup fish in them in case if the hole evaporates enough to the point of cutting them off from their only food supply, algae growing on one wall near the surface in the light.

[xXLiamisawesomeXx]

@idDeltaQDelta Fish can only live so deep

[Snurremegrundt]

Why don't they just take a few individuals, put them in an aquarium and make them breed? Then they can put most of the offspring back in the hole, while keeping some of them, so they can continue to breed them. Who wouldn't like to have some pupfish in their own aquarium? And if they do vanish from Death Valley, at least they will continue to live in people's home or a zoo.

[footodor1]

@AgentFlea the population of these fish have started to go down more suddenly in the past few years so these people arent really saving these fish from extinction but from the impacts humans have made on their survival, the same thing but a different outlook on it

[tm45]

@AgentFlea Not when you consider the fact that we caused the numbers to decrease.... it's our duty to repait the damage we caused

[xDaMiWORLDx]

I had a pet Pupfish but my Goldfish ate it, sorry if they go extinct

[jartigas59]

@idDeltaQDelta Because the food is only found at the surface on a flat rock

[danchimviet1]

stop diving down there and leave those fish alone.

[thelostprologue]

@tle041 for real!