The news story about the blindcat living in a Texas cave is super fascinating.
I would just like to point out from the perspective of the fish that was recently fishnapped near the border that any man-made political boundaries on the surface are not recognized by the fish in the subterranean realm. In fact, these fishes ancestors ( assuming they lived in exact cave ) for the era 1823 were clearly not yet Mexican, but instead Spanish Catfish. The catfish in this cave were only Mexican from 1824 to 1848. One could argue that since the land was originally stolen that the fishes Mexican heritage was also stolen. However, since the victims of the stolen land signed the land over to the the alleged thieves and even accepted compensation afterward, it seems to mean the fish became legal adoptees or property of the U.S. in 1848. It should also be pointed out that prior to the year 1535, the fish were definitely not yet Spanish Blindcats. Meaning for probably 1,000 years the manmade political boundary on the surface was controlled by native Coahuiltecan Indians, whose real name we will never know. But surely the blindcats existed in the subterranean realm long before hominid species such as homo sapiens arrived on the continent. Right ? I guess it is interesting to think the blindcats have been evolving in that cave for a million years. In summary, I do not know what the heck I am talking about. David Locklear dlocklea...@gmail.com
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