What Animal Puts Their Head In The Sand

Amphibian that buries head in sand named later Donald Trump

Composite image showing the Dermophis donaldtrumpi with photoshopped hair, and US President Donald Trump — Prototype caption,
EnviroBuild, the visitor which successfully bid to name the fauna, added the president's distinctive hair to an image of it

United states of america presidents tend to receive their off-white share of honours, but Donald Trump may want to ignore his latest one.

A newly discovered amphibian that buries its head in the sand has been named after him, apparently in response to his comments near climate change.

The Dermophis donaldtrumpi, which was discovered in Panama, was named by the head of a company that had bid $25,000 (£xix,800) at auction for the privilege.

The company said it wanted to raise awareness nigh climate change.

"[Dermophis donaldtrumpi] is particularly susceptible to the impacts of climate change and is therefore in danger of becoming extinct equally a straight outcome of its namesake's climate policies," said EnviroBuild co-founder Aidan Bong in a statement.

Image source, Abel Batista / Rainforest Trust Britain

The money raised from auctioning the naming rights went to the Rainforest Trust charity

The minor, blind, creature is a type of caecilian that primarily lives surreptitious, and Mr Bell drew an unflattering comparison betwixt its behaviour and Mr Trump's.

"Burrowing [his] head underground helps Donald Trump when fugitive scientific consensus on anthropomorphic climate alter," he wrote.

Image source, Dr. Vazrick Nazari

Neopalpa donaldtrumpi was named after the president final year

The amphibian is not the first beast to be named after Donald Trump.

Terminal year, Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, was discovered by biologist Vazrick Nazari in a collection of moths from the Museum of Entomology, at the University of California. The scientist said the moth's unique head colouring reminded him of the president.

Other presidential animals

Barack Obama boasts the championship of beingness the most commemorated of all The states presidents in scientific names, with 14 different species named after him.

These include a trapdoor spider from California (Aptostichus barackobamai) and a small coral fish from his native state of Hawaii (Tosanoides obama). The fish has a small dot on the dorsal fin which reminded researchers of Mr Obama's presidential entrada logo.

George Due west Bush and his vice-president Dick Cheney have also been honoured as slime mould beetles (Agathidium bushi and Agathidium cheneyi respectively). Researchers Kelly Miller and Quentin Wheeler were quick to express, though, that the animals they were named after had zip to exercise with their views of the pair.

The globe's leading scientists concur that climate change is primarily human-induced.

But Mr Trump, whose administration has pursued a pro-fossil fuels agenda, has defendant those scientists of having a "political agenda" and cast uncertainty on whether humans were responsible for the Earth'southward rise temperatures.

"I don't know that it'south manmade," he said in an interview with CBS's threescore Minutes in Oct. "I'm not denying climate change merely [temperatures] could very well become back," he added, without offering bear witness.

Last month, Mr Trump questioned a written report by his own government that constitute climate change would toll the U.s.a. hundreds of billions of dollars annually and harm health.

"I don't believe it," he told reporters at the time.

Afterwards taking function he appear that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement, which commits countries to keeping a limit on ascent global temperatures.

He justified this decision past asserting that he had been elected to serve the citizens of Pittsburgh and non Paris and the deal disadvantaged US businesses and workers.