Harriet - Kunkuru Charles Darwin

Shahararrun ba kawai mutane ba ne, har ma dabbobi. Kunkuru Giwa Harietta (wasu majiyoyin suna kiranta Henrietta) ta sami sunanta ta hanyar rayuwa mai tsawo. Sannan kuma da cewa shahararren masanin kimiyya kuma masanin halitta Charles Darwin ne ya kawo shi Burtaniya.

Rayuwar Harriet

An haifi wannan dabba mai rarrafe a daya daga cikin tsibirin Galapagos. A cikin 1835, Charles Darwin da kansa ya kawo shi da wasu mutane biyu na nau'in iri ɗaya zuwa Burtaniya. A lokacin, kunkuru sun yi girman faranti. An ba su shekaru biyar ko shida. Wannan sanannen kunkuru, wanda za a tattauna daga baya, an sa masa suna Harry, saboda sun dauke ta a matsayin namiji.

Duk da haka, a cikin 1841, an kai dukkan mutane uku zuwa Ostiraliya, inda aka gano su a cikin lambun shuka na birni a Brisbane. Dabbobi masu rarrafe sun rayu a wurin har tsawon shekaru 111.

Bayan rufe Lambunan Botanic na Brisbane, an sake fitar da dabbobi masu rarrafe zuwa wani yanki na kiyaye gabar teku a Ostiraliya. Wannan ya faru a cikin 1952.

Kuma bayan shekaru 8, kunkuru Charles Darwin ya hadu da darektan gidan Zoo na Hawaii a ajiyar. Kuma a sa'an nan aka bayyana cewa Harry ba ko da Harry, amma Henrietta.

Ba da daɗewa ba bayan wannan, Henrietta ta ƙaura zuwa Zoo na Australiya. Ba a iya samun biyu daga cikin danginsa a cikin ajiyar ba.

Shin wannan Harriet din da Darwin da kansa ya kawo?

A nan ne ra'ayoyin suka bambanta. Takardun kunkuru Darwin Harietta sun ɓace cikin aminci a cikin shekaru ashirin. Mutanen da babban masanin kimiyya da kansa ya ba da kunkuru (kuma wannan shine, na tuna, a cikin 1835!), Sun riga sun tafi wata duniya kuma ba su da damar tabbatar da wani abu.

Koyaya, tambayar shekarun giant dabbobi masu rarrafe sun damu da yawa. Saboda haka, a cikin 1992, duk da haka, an gudanar da nazarin kwayoyin halitta na Harriet. Sakamakon ya kasance mai ban mamaki!

Ya tabbatar da cewa:

• An haifi Harrietta a tsibirin Galapagos;
• tana da shekaru akalla 162.

Amma! A tsibirin da wakilan sassan da Harriet ke zaune, Darwin bai taɓa kasancewa ba.

Don haka akwai rudani da yawa a cikin wannan labarin:

• idan wani kunkuru ne, yaya aka yi a gidan namun daji;
• idan wannan kyauta ce daga Darwin, to a ina ya same ta;
• idan da gaske masanin kimiyyar ya sami Harriet inda ya kasance, ta yaya ta kasance a wannan tsibirin.

Ranar haihuwa ta ƙarshe na ɗan ɗari ɗari

Bayan nazarin DNA, sun yanke shawarar ɗaukar 1930 a matsayin farkon shekarun Harriet. Har ma sun ƙididdige kimanin ranar haihuwarta - ba shi da amfani ga irin wannan mashahurin ya kasance ba tare da ranar haihuwa ba. Henrietta cikin farin ciki ta ci wani kek ɗin ruwan hoda da aka yi da furannin hibiscus don girmama ranar haihuwarta ta 175.

A wannan lokacin, hanta mai tsayi ya girma kadan: daga kunkuru mai girman faranti, ta juya zuwa wani kato na gaske wanda bai wuce teburin cin abinci zagaye ba. Kuma Harrietta ta fara auna cibiya ɗaya da rabi.

Duk da kyakkyawar kulawar ma'aikatan gidan zoo da kuma son baƙi, an yanke rayuwar kunkuru mai tsayi a shekara mai zuwa. Ta mutu a ranar 23 ga Yuni, 2006. Likitan dabbobi na gidan dabbobi John Hanger ya gano mai rarrafe da ciwon zuciya.

Wannan magana tana nufin idan ba don cutar ba, kunkuru giwa zai iya rayuwa fiye da shekaru 175. Amma shekarun nawa daidai? Ba mu san wannan ba tukuna.