This is why the announcement earlier this month that ZSL's London Zoo had succeeded in rearing the first ever captive Lake Oku clawed frog tadpoles and juveniles is so important.
These are primarily hacks who clawed their way on stage at some point and are now biding their time in minor-media purgatory with the hope that they'll be able to fake-controversy themselves into relevance once more.
The party's internal polling showed crossover – the point at which the Conservatives overtook Labour – occurred in the wake of the party conferences in October, but then Labour clawed itself back into the lead in the first few weeks of the short campaign, possibly by offering reassurance on the deficit and immigration.
But the Lake Oku clawed frog has twelve sets, which is a high number even for chromosome abundant organisms like plants.
The EDGE currently lists the Lake Oku clawed frog (Xenopus longipes) as number 35 out of some 7,000 amphibian species in terms of its evolutionary distinctness (or how far they are separated from other species on the tree of life) and its proximity to extinction.
That moment paved the way for a tense tie-break, won by Berdych after he stubbornly clawed back a 3-0 deficit, and the turnaround seemed to energise the powerful Czech, who raced to a 3-1 lead in the fourth set.
He once watched seven Lake Oku clawed frogs tear apart a praying mantis that had been unlucky enough to fall into the lake.
Port clawed back the margin in the fourth quarter but ultimately left their charge too late.
The last results from the Guardian/ICM polls before the election add to signs of a last-minute move in Labour's direction after the Tories clawed back ground in the second half of the campaign.
The Lake Oku clawed frog is "[one] of the most genetically unusual creatures in the world," said Carly Waterman, the Programme Manager for the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) EDGE group.
For now, the Lake Oku clawed frog is one of the lucky ones, surviving both in the wild and behind glass.
