100 Years Ago Today
100 years ago today, Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon, was found dead in her aviary at the Cincinnati Zoo. 😥
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CORRECTION! The news is about 8 years off. Martha died on Sept. 1st 1914. I copied an old memory post.
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Like the Tazzy Tiger. But I think Tazzy Tigers still wander the land. Harder to locate being that they're in the bush and not out in the open/sky.
As for the flying rat. No big loss. I'm sure plenty more's gone extinct since then. A few years ago there folks yapping about the Mexican Panda Dolphins being like 50 (or was it 15?) left. That was pre-covid. Just looked the Vaquita are estimated to be 8 left. At this they will be too inbred to save the species (I think). Like the California Condors (re-started from 20 to 500-ish) too stupid to be allowed to inbreed.
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Very sad that we exterminated a species. We almost did it to the buffalo.
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Eventually we'll come very close to exterminating ourselves. We're way over due for another world war. The next one should put us close to killing everything but a few will survive and have to start all over again. I'm stock piling record player needles. They're going to be hard to come by. 😀
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Interesting species. Like many things we thought there were so many we could kill hundreds of thousands and they would still always be there. Turns out there had to be hundreds of thousands to keep the population going. Then there were none. Yosh you leave me almost speechless pal. Almost.
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