Modern extinctions
Katzenklavier
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We humans have been responsible for more extinctions than any other species. Here are just a few.
The passenger pigeon once numbered i the billions and flew in flocks hundreds of miles long. After the Europeans came to America they were hunted to extinction in 300 years, sold as slave meat.
The dodo was fearless of humans and flightless. This led to it's extinction in 1681.
The bali tiger was the smallest of all the tigers, until they were hunted to extinction in 1937.
The elephant bird was hunted to extinction in the 17th century, mainly because it was slow, huge, flightless and tasty.
The golden toad was last seen in 1989. Deforestation killed it off.
The thylacine went extinct in 1932 due to unregulated hunting and trapping.
The quagga went extinct in 1883.
The blue anole is critically endangered, and will likely go extinct soon.
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I know right? I don't live where they do, but if I did I would certainly breed them, provided I could find them.
Keep in mind this is a different species, but I assume a similar role applies to the blue anole. Source.
On that note, I recently learned Georgia has one of the highest concentrations of salamanders and newts in the US. Seriously, there is so much rare and amazing shit around all of us it's uncanny.
http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/salamanders/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement
Pretty interesting, lol.
Think of a completly different lineage of animal, their only common ansestors with mamals being 125 million years old.
With the thylacine, how it developed to be so much like a dog, because dogs were absent from its environment there was a neich for it to enter and as it did, it became a marsupial dog.
The eastern cougar or mountain lion was declared extinct Thursday. Source
Last March there were several mountain lion sightings in a town near me. I'm also calling bs.