An Interview to Note with Mr. Drew Arellano

The AHA show of GMA channel 7 shot for their June 19 episode all about the animals discovered by Jose Rizal while he was exiled in Dapitan.  The show is hosted by Mr. Drew Arellano with a puppet named Andoy and it will be aired on Sunday 9:30 a.m.

     I was asked what were those specimens discovered by Rizal and if those were still in existence today.  The three specimens are rhachoporus rizali (a frog), draco rizali (a flying lizard) and apogonia rizali (a beetle).  Only the beetle is not included in our collections. These discoveries were actually send by Rizal to his scientist friends in Europe and were significantly named after him.