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World Extinct Birds

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Africa:

Elephant Bird 1700

Common Dodo 1680

Rodriguer Solitaire Mauritius Dove 1780

Reunion Solitaire Rhodesian Fool's Dove 1700

White Dodo White Fool's Dove 1770

Madagascar Serpent Eagle Madagascar Serpent Eagle 1950

Commerson's Scops Owl Mauritian Horned Osprey 1850

Rodrigaer Little Owl Mauritian Little Osprey 1850

Mauritian Red Tail Mauritian Red Rookery 1680

Leguat's Rail Mauritian Fieldfare 1700

Broad-Billed Parrot Broad-Billed Parrot 1650

Rodriguer Parrot Rhode Island Parrot 1800

Rodriguer Righ-Nedred Parakeet Ring-Necked Parrot 1880

Mascarene Parrot Isle of Man Parrot 1840

Seychelles ParakeetSeychelles Green Parrot 1881

Sao Thome GrosbeakSao Thome Waxbill 1900

Painted VultureFlorida Painted Vulture 1800

ReunionCrestedStarling Reunion Starling 1868

White ltascarcen Starling Mascarene Swallowbird 1840

Delalande'S Madagascar Concal Della's Island Cuckoo 1930<

Asia:

Columba Jouyi Silver-spotted Black Pigeon 1936

Arabian Ostrich Arabian Ostrich 1941

Forest Spotted Owlet Indian Spotted Forest Osprey 1914

Himalayan Mountain Quail Alpine Quail 1870

Pink?Headed Duck Pink Headed Duck 1924

Ryudyu King Fisher Ryukyu Kingfisher 1887

Jerdon's Double Banded Courser Double Collared Owlet 1900

Crested Sheld Duck Crested Shelduck 1964

Dieaeum Ouadriwlor Philippine Four-colored Flowerpecker 1906

America:

Passenger Pigeon Passenger Pigeon 1914

Eskimo Curlew Eskimo Spoonbill 1970

Guadalupe StorePetrel Guadalupe Sea Sparrow 1911

Quelili Windward Kara Hawk 1900

Painted Vulture Florida Painted Vulture 1800

Burrowing Owl Burrowing Osprey 1900

Carolina Parakeet Carolina Parrot 1914

Cuban Red Macaw Tricolored Goose Bulbul 1765

Yellow-Headed Macaw Yellow-Headed Thrasher Bulbul 1765

Green&Yellow Macaw Green-Yellow Goose Bulbul 1842

Dominican Macaw Dominican Goose Bulbul 1800

Labat's Conure Labat's Cone-tailed Parrot 1722

Puerto Rican Conure Puerto Rican Cone-tailed Parrot 1892

Martinique Amazon Martinique Green Cockatoo 1750

Guadeloupe Amazon Guadeloupe Green Cockatoo 1750

Culebra lsland Amazon Culebra Green Cockatoo 1899

Kittlitis Rail Keeled Rookie 1850

Jamaican Wood Rail Or Uniform Rajl Jamaican Pure-colored Rice Cockatoo 1881

Sand With Rail Hawaiian Sasquatch 1944

Laysan Rail Or Spottess Crake Hawaiian Greenfinch 1900

Kioea Sideburns Nectar Suckers 1850

Great Amakihi Hawaiian Greenfinch 1900

Alauwahios Hawaiian Pipetongue 1970

Oahu Akepa Scarlet Pipetongue 1900

Akioloas Long-billed Jawbreaker 1890

< p>temignathus Procerus hyperactive Iowan guide-jawed finch 1969

Nukupuns short-billed guide-osprey 1890

Hawaiian Finches Hawaiian island finches

Apapane white-rumped honeycreeper 1925

Laysan Millerbird Mill Reed Warbler 1894

Hawaiian Thrush Hawaiian Dark Thrush 1920

Saint kitt'S Puerto Rican Bullfinch Puerto Rican Gray Finch 1900

6uada Lupe Rufous-Sided Towhee Brown Wryneck?1900

Guadahpe Wren Guadalupe Heterodyne Wren 1892

West lndian Wren West Indies Heterodyne Wren 1971

Heath Hen New England Black Harp Chicken 1932

Labrador Duck Labrador Duck 1875

American lvory-Billed Woodpecker Ivory Woodpecker 1951

Imperial Woodpecker Imperial Woodpecker 1950

Guadahpe Flicker Guadalupe Flicker?1906

Jamaican Pauraque Lesser Para Nighthawk 1859

Quiscalus Palustris Mexican Mimic Octopus

Australia:

Moas 15 species of dingoes 1500-1850

Turnagra Cepensis New Zealand Thrush Goose 1963

Dwarf Emu Bonobo Emu 1850

Norfolk lsland Pigeon Norfolk Island Pigeon 1801

Laughing Owls Laughing Osprey 1900

Psephotus Pulcherrimus Paradise Parrot 1927

Norfolk lsland Kaka Kaka Pecked Lapwing 1851

Macquarle lsland Parakeet Macquarle Island Parakeet 1890

Modest Rail Lesser New Zealand Rangifer 1900

p>Dieffenbach's Rail Dull Seedling 1840

Chatham lsland Fernbird Chatham Fern Warbler 1895

Stephen lsland Wren New Zealand Heterodyne Wren 1894

Macquarie lsland Rail Macquarie Island Spotted Seedling 1880

Porphyrio Albus New Britain Purple Waterthrush 1834

New Zealand Bush Wren Bush Iowan 1965

New Zealand Quail New Zealand Quail 1868

Auckland lsland Merganser Yellow-billed Autumn Sandpiper 1910

Huia North Island Ptarmigan 1907

Chatham lsland Bellbird Chatham Nectar Sucking Bird 1906

Chatham Swan Chatham Swan 1690

Zosterops Strenua Tasman Embroidered Eye 1918

Oceanic and Island Eeyore:

Bonin Wood Pigeon Ogasawara Wood Pigeon 1900

Choiseul Crested Pigeon Solomon Coronet Dove 1910

Tanna Dove Tanna Island Dove 1800

Lord Howe lsland Pigeon Lord Howe Island Pigeon 1853

Great Auk Great Seasparrow 1844

Steller'S Spectacled Cormorant Bering Cormorant 1852

Bonin Night Keron Bonin Island Night Heron 1879

Tahitian Sandpiper Tahitian Sandpiper 1800

Comoro Scops Owl Cape Camorro Osprey 1890

Mauritian Barn Owl Isle of Man Barn Owl 1700

New Caledonian Lorikeet New Island Nectar Sucking Parakeet (date of extinction unknown)

Red-Fronted Parakeet Howe Island Red-fronted Parakeet 1869

Black-Fronted Parakeet Tahitian Black-headed Parakeet 1850

Nyctlcorax Megacephalus Big-headed Night Heron 1730

White Gallinule White Rice Cockatoo 1830

Wake lsland Rail Wake Island Rice Cockatoo 1945

Iwo Jima Rajl Iwo Jima Rice Cockatoo 1924

Fiji Barred- Wing Rail Spotted Wing Ranger 1965

Samoan Wood Rail Western Samoan Water Grouse 1873

Tahiti Rail Tahitian Ranger 1900

Tristan Gallimmle or lsland Hen Tristan Black Water Grouse 1890

Lord Howe lsland Vinous?Einted Black BirdLord Howe lsland Osprey (extinction date unknown)

Lord Howe lsland Fly CatcherLord Howe lsland Goose 1920

Lord Howe lsland White EyeLord Howe lsland Embroidered Eye 1923

Lord Howe lsland Fantail Howe lsland Fan-tailed Goose 1924

Kitt Litz's Thrush Keeler's Ground Thrush 1828

Bonin lsland Grosbeak Kasahara Waxbill 1828

Bay Thrush Bay Thrush 1780

Tonga Tabu Tahiti Flycatcher Tonga Goose 1800

Long Lowe lsland Starling Green-headed Glow Starling 1925

Mysterious Starllng Pacific Glow Starling 1780

Coues' Gadwall Red-bladed Duck 1874

Fuica Newtoni Mascarene Flap-winged Grouse 1863

Ptilinopus Mercierii Red-bristled Fruit Dove 1922

Alectroenas Nitidissima Isle of Man Blue Dove 1830

Alectroenas Rodericana Isle of Man Blue Dove 1670

Columba Versicoler Mottled Wood Dove 1889

Cyanoramphus Zealandicus Red-fronted Parrot 1844< /p>

Cyanoramphus Ulietahus Antipodean Green Parrot 1774

Lophospittscus Mauritianus Mauritian Parrot (extinction date unknown)

Necropsittacus Rodericanus Carrion Parrot 1731

Aplonis Pelzelni Dark Glow Starling 1935

Aplonis Corvina Koussaei Island Glow Starling 1828

Fregilupus Varius Reunion Starling 1862

Europe:

The Bald Ibis (Waid Rapp) The Bald Cuckoo (extinction date unknown)

Recently Extinct Beasts of the World

(Chinese-English)

Europe

Aurochs Proto-Bull 1627

European Wild Horse (Tarpan) European Wild Horse 1877

Caucasian Bison (Wisent) Caucasian Bison 1925

Portugese Ibex Portugese Northern Mountain Goat 1892

America

Eastern Bison Eastern Bison 1825

Oregon Bison Oregon Bison 1850

Eastern Wapiti (Elk) Eastern Horse Deer 1877

Merriam's Wapiti (Elk) May's Horse Deer 1906

Dawson's Caribou Dawson's Caribou (Canada) 1908

Greenland LTundra Reindeer Greenland caribou 1950

Badlands Bighorn Sheep Badlands Bighorn Sheep 1925

Long-Eared Minke Fox (extinction date unknown)

Sea Mink Maine Sea Weasel 1880

Mexican Silver Grizzly Mexican Grizzly Bear 1964

Arizona Jaguar Arizona Leopard 1905

Steller's Sea Cow Toothless Manatee 1767

Caribbean Monk SealCaribbean Monk Seal1952

Sewfoundland White WolfNewfoundland White Wolf1911

Trexas Grey WolfTexas Grey Wolf1920

Great Plains Lobo WolfWestern Grey Wolf 1926

New Mexican WolfNew Mexican Wolf 1920

Kenai WolfKenai Mountain Wolf 1915

Southern Rocky Mountain WolfSouthern Mountain Wolf 1915

Cascade Mountain Brown Wolf Cascade Brown Wolf 1950

Florida Black Wolf Florida Black Wolf 1917

Texas Red Wolf Texas Red Wolf 1970

Warraho or Antarctic Wolf Fukushima Hooded Wolf 1876

Africa

Blue-Buck Blue Horse Antelope 1799

Quagga Spotted Donkey 1883 (extinct in the wild 1860, extinct in Amsterdam 1883)

Burchell's Zebra White's Zebra 1910

Bubal Hartebeest North African Elk Antelope 1923

Cape Red Hartebeest Pied Elk Antelope 1940

Red Gazelle Angolan Red Antelope 1940

Atlas Bear Atlas Brown Bear 1870

Cape Lion West African Lion 1865

Barbary Lion North African Lion 1922

Asia

Shamanu or Japanese Wolf Japanese Bonobo Wolf 1905

Indian Cheetah Asiatic Cheetah 1948

Bali Tiger Bali Tiger 1937

Caspian Tiger 1980

Javan Tiger 1988

Chinese Turkestan Tiger 1916

Chinese Douc Langur Hainan White-rumped Lemur 1893

Taiwan Cloud LeopardTaiwan Clouded Leopard 1972

Chinese RhinoChinese Rhinoceros 1922

Przewalaski's HorsePrzewalski's Horse 1947

Saiga AntelopeSaiga Antelope 1950

Pere David Deer Elk 1900

Pygmy Hog Bonobo Hog (date of extinction unknown)

Schomburgk Deer Beard's Deer 1932

Syrian Wild Ass(0nger) Syrian Wild Ass 1930

Ramchaekan Bear Kamchatka Brown Bear 1920

Persian Fal'low Deer Persian Weasel Deer (date of extinction unknown)

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①Barbary Lion

The Barbary Lion, which had a body length of about three meters, was larger than the Barbary Lion that lives today. meters or so, about forty centimeters longer than the lions that live on Earth today. It weighs two hundred and thirty kilograms and was once the largest lion on earth. Kings and royals in Europe and Arabia likened the lion to a symbol of authority, but why were lions not seen at all in their territories?

We have to travel to the southern part of Africa's Great Sahara Desert to see the Barbary Lion, the king of the forest. Nowadays, gory scenes of humans fighting lions can only be seen in fictional movie images. Because, on the one hand, in European human culture, people see the lion as a symbol of courage and nobility, and on the other hand, human beings expel lions from their own circle of life to show the immense power of human forces.

The European lion became extinct in the second century A.D., and the South African Kebab lion disappeared from the earth forever in 1865. Later in the twentieth century, the Barbary lion, known as the king of lions, was again in danger of extinction. These tragedies go back a long way to the days of ancient Rome.

A long time ago, the mighty Romans conquered all kinds of civilizations elsewhere, and at the same time, they also conquered the Barbary lions. The people in the other countries conquered by the Romans were forced to become Roman slaves. The lions were also transported to the Great Colosseum, which could hold 250,000 spectators, for entertainment.

Sometimes, the lions were arranged to fight with gladiators; sometimes, they were picked on by Christians, and some Roman emperors had six hundred lions captured and transported to Rome in order to hold a grand parade commemorating their victory in the war. At the time of the fall of the Roman Empire, the Barbary lion was no longer to be seen in most of North Africa. It was not the Romans, let alone the Barbary lions, who controlled North Africa, but the desert. Overgrazing by domestic animals was the main reason for this. Wherever there was even a little bit of green cover, people would drive large numbers of domestic animals to this place, and even the lions were driven away, and the situation continued in this vicious circle until it became a vast desert.

The last stand of the Barbary lion was the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. In 1922, the last Barbary lion was brought down by a human shotgun.

This was the largest lion on earth with a full body length of three meters and a long mane that extended to the upper part of its back.

②Japanese Wolf

The Japanese wolf was once a species of wolf that lived throughout the northern hemisphere. With a shoulder height of thirty-five centimeters and a body length of one meter, it is the smallest and rarest type of wolf in the world. They used to live in the mountains and forests of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. In Western countries, wolves are regarded as demons that attack livestock. In Japan, however, it is regarded as the guardian of crops, chasing deer and bears that have trampled on the fields.

The Ainu have named the wolf "the god who howls in the distance. During the long winter nights in the northern part of the country, the wolf's howl evokes a certain belief in the people.

There is always a fear of wolves in any part of the world, and there is always a chance that a wolf, of any kind, will attack a human being under normal circumstances.

Humans gradually expanded their sphere of influence, even into the realm of wolves, so in order to keep their territory, wolves became the enemy of humans.

In Japan, there are many folk tales about wolves. In one of these stories, it is told that a blind man who went out to sell his art accidentally got lost in the mountains. Later, he was able to return to his village only by relying on a wolf to lead the way.

Nowadays, in some mountainous areas, there are still shrines where wolves are worshipped.

The wolf came to be regarded as a vicious animal after it attacked valuable livestock or horses in Japan. Sometimes feared and hunted, sometimes honored and worshipped, the wolf became so much a part of Japan's nature and culture that the Ainu didn't kill them even with poisoned arrows. What really drove them to extinction was the mass hunting for furs by humans after the Meiji period, and the popularization of rifles. Of course, the biggest reason was that humans encroached on the wolves in order to expand their sphere of influence, so the wolves began to attack domestic animals, and people tried to hunt them, and the government even encouraged people to hunt wolves by offering bonuses, and it is estimated that the Egyptian wolf living in Hokkaido became extinct in about 1900.

Japanese wolves were not lucky enough to survive either. With the policy of enriching the country and strengthening the army advocated at that time, industrialization, urbanization, and the distemper brought about by the importation of some Western dogs, a series of problems forced the Japanese wolves into a desperate situation. The survival of the Japanese wolf is incompatible with civilization and enlightenment.

In 1907, the 38th year of the Meiji era, a wolf was captured in Washikaguchi, Yoshino-gun, Nara Prefecture, which was recognized as the last Japanese wolf.

After that, the phrase "I saw a Japanese wolf" happened several times. There are still many people who believe that a small number of Japanese wolves still live in the mountains and forests of Japan.

3 North American seal

The North American seal has a body length of more than two meters and weighs 160 kilograms. It has a gentle temperament and moves slowly, and even if it sees a person, it will not turn its head and run away.

Explorer Christopher Columbus came to the United States after a long and arduous journey, he found the American seal, because of its barking and wolf similarity, so, Columbus called it "the wolf of the sea". Since then, the fate of the seal has changed. Not only Columbus, all to the United States as the goal of conquest of the Europeans as soon as the American continent on the first animal to see is this "wolf in the sea", seals at the time, by many people as a symbol of the new world is about to go to prosperity.

Like sea donkeys, seals like to live in packs. They used to feed on fish. In the long, long ago. People in the Americas were fed on seal meat. Even so, the number of seals has not declined as a result.

Thousands of seals live in the Bahamas, as well as in the islands of the American Sea, and along the coasts of Mexico and Belorida. They are very agile when fishing in the sea, while in contrast, they are slow on shore. This alone is the seal's weakness.

In 1675, the British explorer William Dampier's account of his explorations also detailed that some Spaniards in a boat, single-handedly holding a stick, approached the seals step by step, and they were not even aware of what was going to happen, but stayed steadily in place.

Even the British, who lived in Jamaica, took advantage of the wave of hunting that was going on and hunted seals in large numbers.

The following clip documents the hunting of Tadago seals in the northern part of Canada in the early twentieth century.

Each year, seals leave the sea temporarily when they have their young. This is the perfect time for people to hunt seals. Instead of chasing the adults, people aim their guns at the newborn pups with their snow-white fur.

But the seals are not hunted for their fur.

Seal blubber becomes oil when heated. It acts in the same way as whale blubber and can be used to light a lamp.

In the days when seafaring was prevalent in Europe, discovering a seal colony was as exciting as striking an oil well. Whether it was a seal hunt or a whale hunt, it was as if one of the oil wells of the day had been tapped. Later on, other people who make a living from mining ride the wave of heat, and it's really the same thing. However, using oil as an example, the resource is not inexhaustible.

The seals that were lucky enough to survive had a hard time hiding until the twentieth century came along, but all that awaited them were more advanced shotguns. It became increasingly difficult to see seals. The last seal was seen in 1952.

The same species, the Chichucaí seal, is also facing extinction. Recently, however, the number of Hawaiian seals has increased as people have become more aware of wildlife conservation.

In short, the number of animals, whether increasing or decreasing, depends on human beings themselves!

④Traveling Pigeon

The traveling pigeon. On the surface it looks very similar to an ordinary pigeon. However, its back is gray and seems to be a little bluish, while the color of its chest is bright red. That is why it looks so splendid and colorful. It is different from ordinary pigeons in that its call is high and loud. Another characteristic of it is that it is so numerous that it is the most numerous bird on earth.

The huge procession of traveling pigeons flies over the forests of North America with a loud and discordant cry. At this time of year, the birds block out the sunlight and the ground is dark. The image, if called a flock of birds, might as well have been appropriately called a tornado.

Sometimes the flocks are 15 kilometers long and up to two kilometers wide. Odipo once said he witnessed a flock that numbered 200 million birds.

The traveling pigeon, a symbol of American prosperity.

It wasn't just the sheer number of birds that changed their fortunes, but also the fact that they are delicious to eat.

For those early settlers in America, all the resources in the land were abundant and inexhaustible.

The horizon stretched infinitely, the land to be reclaimed was endless, and territories that could not be found on a map were instantly transformed into bustling streets. There were new means of transportation across the expanse of land. At this time, the symbol of nature was the traveling pigeon.

Even with a few swings of a stick into the sky, several birds could be knocked out. This used to be all true. Of course, killing hundreds or even thousands of traveling pigeons with a shotgun was even less of a problem.

Then, millions of traveling pigeons were sent by train to the big cities every day. Until 1860, with the great clearing of forests and the widespread hunting, no one noticed that the number of travelling pigeons was gradually decreasing. In hunting competitions, a hunter would shoot down tens of thousands of traveling pigeons. By about 1880. Flocks of traveling pigeons could only be seen in Michigan. Even though everyone was aware of the situation, Michigan hunters still supplied three million traveling doves to the market each year!

The last wild traveling dove was shot down in 1900.

In 1909, only the last three of the once overwhelming number of traveling pigeons were left, and they were fed at the New Sinatra Zoo.

What we now know is that there were a certain number of travelling pigeons, and when their numbers dwindled, it was impossible to get them back to their original numbers!

From the days when the traveling pigeon was all over the place to today, just fifty years later, we don't hear its loud cooing anymore.

The last traveled pigeon at the zoo was a female, named Martha. Martha died on September 1, 1914, the day she died. On the day of her death, all the news stations in the United States reported the death.

5 Polynesian Snail

The Polynesian snail is a small snail. From ten centimeters to twenty centimeters, they are divided into more than 10,000 species, and their habitat is on various small islands in the South Pacific.

Each island in the South Pacific is like each star, both animals and plants, evolved alone. This is one of the reasons for their great variety.

Seven species of snails, each with their own distinctive characteristics, survive on a small island called Morea in the French territory of Sauciète.

"Why did they evolve into different species in the same environment?" Joan Guericke, an American nature researcher, came to the small island of Moorea in 1870 with this question in mind.

This was the period when the British biologist Darwin published his Theory of Evolution, and he was subjected to a variety of attacks on him by Bible-believing people.

Curic studied in detail these seven species of snails surviving on the small island of Moorea and found that the differences in their species had nothing to do with the environment or natural elimination. Instead, genetic variation was the main cause. When he made this statement, it angered people who believed in Darwinian evolution.

In nineteen ninety-six, another nature researcher, Cu Lumpkin, came up with the opposite doctrine to that of Curiek. And he traveled to the small island of Moorea. He spent fifty years there studying different kinds of snails, making detailed records and reasoning about what evolutionary course they would take in the future. For future scholars, these records are powerful evidence.

However, his theory was ultimately not recognized because of one snail. The islands of Sossiento are inhabited by the French. The French are notorious for their love of snails. The most flavorful snails to eat are the large African snails. When African snails were imported, they occasionally escaped, and because there were no natural predators, the escaped snails multiplied at a rapid rate. In 1970, the island of Moorea was invaded by the African snail much later than other islands. Moreover, the African snails reproduced so fast that one family had as many as two wheelbarrows of snails in their yard. So it is not possible not to do something about it. In 1977, people imported a snail-eating snail from Florida, USA. However, this carnivorous snail all but avoided the African snail and instead set its sights on the Polynesian snail. By 1988, the Polynesian snail, without a hint of precaution, had finally disappeared completely. The very few Polynesian snails on the small island of Moorea were protected by the local zoo. But there are only five of seven species, and the other two are extinct.

6 Batchelor's savanna zebra

The Batchelor's savanna zebra has been described as one of the most beautiful of the savanna zebra subspecies, and it is this beauty that has caused them to suffer misfortune.

The zebras that live in Africa are divided into three species. The zebra that lives in the dry savannah is called the Guraibi zebra; the zebra that lives in the mountains is called the mountain zebra; and the most abundant is the savannah zebra, which is widely distributed in the eastern savannah.

In 1817, one of the subspecies of savannah zebra was brought back to England by the English traveler Batchelor. Batchelor's savannah zebra used to live in the grasslands at the southernmost mouth of Africa. In terms of classification, the zebra is very similar to a donkey, the savanna zebra has four long legs and looks closer to a horse.

The Batchelor's savannah zebra is one of the most graceful of the zebra family.

Standing with their heads held high, they can be seen to have strong, robust bone structure and small, horse-like ears. The male zebras are one and a half meters tall at the shoulder and two and a half meters long.

They are also as lively as British thoroughbred racehorses.

They have black and white stripes on their bodies, sometimes giving the impression that they are black on white, sometimes giving the impression that they are white on black. The trio of savannah zebras combined with bovines and opossums creates a defense alliance. With the eyes of the opossum, the ears of the zebra, and the nose of the takin, if any one of these three animals draws on the characteristics of all three, it is truly invincible!

However, they are defenseless against the uplifted shotgun of man, and the Boers have hunted savannah zebras in great numbers, distributing the meat to their entourage from Africa, and making bags out of the skins of the zebras.

In 1830, it became fashionable to keep wild animals as pets, and the Batchelor's savannah zebra was a favorite.

Unfortunately for these zebras, their skins are so easy to work with, and their colors and textures so beautiful, that there is a wide market for them in the blink of an eye.

It was easier to make money hunting zebras than running a farm. By 1850, newer tanning techniques had been mastered, and the business of zebra leather products became even more popular.

The hunting of zebras began in 1840, and despite protests from a handful of conservationists, the rampant hunting continued for three decades.

By 1870, the large herds of Batchelor's savannah zebra had gradually disappeared from view. Only small herds of zebras dotted the grasslands, along with local landowners, who occasionally kept a few, and the very few that survived in zoos.

The last Batchelor's savannah zebra died in 1910 in a London zoo. The savannah of his homeland had not been seen since childhood.

The Dosso forest reindeer

The extinction of this small and delicate reindeer was due to human curiosity.

"Whether or not such a small reindeer existed" became a subject of debate among zoologists, and it was this debate that drove the Dosso forest reindeer to its point of no return.

The Dosso forest caribou, which lives in the continental U.S., is a type of reindeer that is so small that it may have survived a long, long time ago under extraordinary environmental conditions.

Much of the Kwai Fjord Lodges, located on the Canadian side of the Pacific Ocean, are wetlands. It is surrounded by thick stands of coniferous trees. Humidity is high there. However, caribou are an animal that lives in dry land, so why do they live here? Scholars then wondered.

The Dosso forest reindeer are small in appearance, standing 80 centimeters tall at the shoulder, less than a meter and 40 inches long, and weighing between 100 and 130 kilograms, less than half the weight of other reindeer species. They look like ordinary reindeer, with a mane under their necks and large hooves. These small reindeer are very few in number, and the breeding population never increases.

On the shores of the island were once inhabited by local people. They lived off the resource-rich sea and never ventured into the island's interior. That is, until Europeans invaded this sacred island.

The European hunters set up traps in the interior of the island for the furs, and rewarded the inhabitants. Thus, the tiny reindeer were finally introduced to the world.

G.M. Dosso, the British colonial surveyor, made his first report in 1878.

In 1880, a trader named Makanji put up a bounty and donated part of the skull and antlers of a male reindeer captured in a trap by a resident to the National Museum. In 1990, the Dosso forest reindeer was recognized as a new species and given a Latin scientific name.

However, the decision set off a very large debate among scholars at the time. They argued that the reindeer was not a new species.

In 1901, a missionary who lived on the island went into the interior of the island with five residents. However, they saw only reindeer tracks, but no caribou. Six years later, although the survey continued, the caribou never showed up.

Finally, on November 1, 1908, the two hunters found two male and one female caribou, as well as a baby caribou. Although the hunters shot the caribou down one by one, the other caribou did not react, and in the end, only one baby caribou remained.

The Dosso Forest caribou were discovered by humans and quickly became extinct, leaving the baby caribou all alone.

8 The Pocket Wolf

This is a marvelous animal that is hard to describe. Judging from its head and teeth, it is a wolf. However, its body has stripes like a tiger. It can run on four legs like a hyena. It can also jump and walk on its hind legs like a small kangaroo, which is a marsupial like the kangaroo. This animal has the characteristics of other animals, but it has something special. It has been called the Tasmanian wolf, the zebra wolf, and the Tasmanian tiger, among other things.

The pouched wolf lives in sparsely wooded areas or on grasslands. However, when settlers come to the land where they live, they hide in the deep forests. This carnivorous marsupial is 1.5 to 1.8 meters long from head to tail. Shoulder height is sixty centimeters. The stomach has a pouch like a kangaroo to hold the baby kangaroos. There are twelve to twenty stripes on the back. The bones of the jaws are divided into two segments like a snake, and they will bite the head of a hound with a click. At night they move alone, often hunting out for kangaroos, wallabies, or flightless birds. It is not a fast runner, but it will pursue its prey until it is exhausted. Often they end their prey's life with a bite to the head.

Since the arrival of settlers in Tasmania, the survival of the pouched wolf has been in crisis.

The large number of