To me it's the Amsterdam Wigeon of Île Amsterdam. Somehow a very small bird finds itself on an extremely small island thousands of miles in the middle of the Indian Ocean, not to be found anywhere else, and out of the blue sailors show up and eat them all to death. Not only that, but there used to be groves on that island, which were burned away and replaced with grass for cattle grazing. It makes me sad what a number people do on the environment. There's no pictures of the animal and it's only known from bones.
Saddest extinction to you?
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Teriaaaaa!
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Dinosaurs
I want a pet stegosaurus.
I want a pet stegosaurus.
Yep, that and the yangtze river dolphin
The passenger pigeon. Once the most populated bird species on the planet, with flocks that would take hours to pas overhead, and a species numbering 3 to 5 billion. They were the literal definition of success within the animal kingdom, until humans came along.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon#Extinction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon#Extinction
diggmcbadass
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fake deep
StaffyManasse
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Polar bear.
I say fuck the people that are buying Tusks, etc and proliferating the market in the first place. It's all bad, but I hate the jackasses that find beauty in owning near extinct animal parts, or grinding it up into a soup because they can't get a boner. Fuck those idiots.
Tasmanian Tiger
Look how cute he is:
Look how Australian he is:
Hmm, he doesn't seem to be dripping white hot venom, so I would give him a 6/10 on the Australian stakes
Tasmanian Tiger
Look how Australian he is:
nothx
Tasmanian Tiger
Look how cute he is:
Look how Australian he is:
Scientists are trying to bring them back.
I hope they succeed.
I think we should kill it again if they do.
Horror movie shit.
Soon: sharks
We don't give a fuck about the sea
It's going to be so cool when the only thing that lives in the sea are jellyfish
Tasmanian Tiger
Look how cute he is:
Look how Australian he is:
Every couple of years there's someone that says they spotted one out in the wild. The thing is practically Australia's big foot at this point.
StaffyManasse
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So...all animals?
Also you are right about the unpopular part, I'm preeetty sure about that.
Personally it would have to be the Mammoth. It just looked so amazing and it's sad how it was one of the earliest animals we might have had a major impact in their eventual extinction.
Plus, where's the stinger?
Plus, where's the stinger?
block tower
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dinosaurs.
No. Not all animals are highly important to ecology. My hamburgers would still be fine without beluga whales, for example.
Shuggananas
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I'm going to cry when elephants are extinct
Such cool animals
Such cool animals
TacticalFox88
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If Humans ever make Tigers go extinct I will forever be upset.
lastplayed
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Haast's eagle. So close, yet so far.
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not gonna lie I got on this animal back in 1985-1996 and was convinced I wanted to grow up and be Williem Dafoe and find one.
Same thing with Poachers I once wrote a paper on how I was going to become the anti-poacher and hunt and kill poachers.
wild imagination -------> that way
Benzychenz
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Tasmanian Tiger
Look how cute he is:
Look how Australian he is:
Yeah this one for me. I hate when fairly unique animals go extinct.
Like, one breed of rhino or whatever sucks, but there's still other rhinos out there.
The dodo as well, such a cool bird.
The Aurochs. When you think of domestication and how ubiquitous cows, bulls, have been to humanity the world over and then think that we killed the wild ancestor from which they were domesticated and descended from forever, it's just sad.
Imagine if there were no more wolves and all we were left with were dogs that are only remotely like the wild ancestor that nature and evolution had created.
The other sad extinction I read about is probably the Steller's Sea Cow. Within 27 years of Europeans finding the animal, it was hunted to extinction because it was so big and slow moving, it was easily captured and hunted for its flesh, it's fat, it's meat etc. It's closest relative is probably the Dugong now, but it was the largest mammal outside of whales. Just sad.
MaddenNFL64
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Ya, pretty damn unpopular, but thanks for sharing.
Why doesn't it have feathers?
way more
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So logical and rational. You are surely the one known as "The Fedora wearer," that my people speak of.
Soon: sharks
We don't give a fuck about the sea
?? link?
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