Fish are doing it for themselves

We humans like to think we’re extremely important and responsible. We wring our hands in guilt over driving animals to extinction, feeling that it’s only with our intervention that said animals can ever make a comeback, and survive in this tricky and challenging world. How will they manage without our interference? How will they cope? Just fine apparently. The endangered desert pupfish has been pushed to the brink of dying out by habitat destruction, and is facing an uncertain future. However, it seems that some of these fish have beaten the odds, and found themselves a shiny new habitat - man-made ponds, designed to study the steady pollution of an inland body of water called the Salton Sea. The ponds are designed to study the effect of the pollution in this pond on the local seabirds, but are now acting as a sanctuary for the fish. This is made all the more impressive by the fact that the only way the fish could have got into the pond is by swimming along a 1.5 mile long pipe. Resourceful little creatures, we should really give them more credit!