The Last Confirmed Sightings of Four Extinct Animals
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- Whenever an animal is declared to be extinct, it becomes in the eyes of many an elusive legend. And instantly, anything that remains of it, such as the last known photos , become haunting reminders of the enteral doom the animals face. However, sometimes people forget that the declaration of an animals extinction, doesn't mean its gone for good just yet as reflected by confirmed sightings of dying species that have occurred after they were deemed officially extinct.
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"Perhaps it was looking for a mate not understanding that it may have been the very last of its kind"
This almost brought me to tears.
this state even has a name: its sometimes reffered to as a endling. and this one might not even be the saddest one: there was a frog in a zoo that was the last known member of its species and said frog even stopped calling after some time as if he knew that he was the last.
@@Irobert1115HD my heart hurts reading things like that.
@@UsDiYoNayes, agree, very distressing
CRINGE post.
What was even worse was that so many people who found the last of these creatures still killed them without hesitation - what cruel people :(
I still don't get why humans didn't try domesticating and farming dodos. They seem perfect for that.
Their meat was apparently disgusting
@@henry-thepizzaeater-morgan704 but people loved their feathers for their hats, and sailors seemed to rely heavily on them. Just seems like a massive missed opportunity (and I want 20 as pets this is totally biased I love them so much)
Unfortunately, the ignorant people who first discovered them didn't think of that and decided to kill them all in just a few decades instead. It usually take a lot longer than that to domesticate a species.
their fat was also apparently really good.
plus, they're related to pigeons, like, extremely closely, so they probably cood.. coud? the purr type noise pigeons make.
imagine a chomky cat/dog sized pigeon to cuddle with! following you along on walks, we could have dodo parks, it could've been great.
cooed
I think the saddest part is how they get forgoten. Every time a movie makes a film based on older times they always missed on how many animals used to roam back then. Urochs in medieval Europe, bears in Africa, pigeon flocks covering the skies of North America... None of them appear in those stories.
They are bringing back the passenger pigeon, A bird that lived in north America in there billions so mabey we will se them roam our sky's once more.
@@crystalhull1677 I am not very optimistic about its chances. Farmers haven't taken kindly to the recovery of wolf populations. They will blame it for all their problems.
Pigeon flocks in the skies of north America? Well then they were introduced by Europeans. Cities still have flocks of pigeons that can darken the sky
There used to be crazy wildlife out there... Grizzly bears all the way to South america.. Jaguars to Colorado... wolves all over northern erurope. Mountain lions all over the northeast...
I think so too tbh it’s not the fact that the animals are gone forever it’s that so many different species are now extinct and a lot of us will never even remember us no one creature will ever remember them again after the such is the way of the world thousands of creatures have gone extinct since too since life has started on earth even before humans showed up crazy to think species have come and gone before humans even got a chance to look at them 😔
That last photograph of the lion illicits such a profound feeling of melancholy. The solitary creature in the barren environment, the dark, silhouetted figure contrasted with the reflective, bright background.
Even sadder when you consider that they are social animals.
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Alright Mark Twain
@@Matthew-rc1xt Alright Andrew tate looking ass 💀
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Imagine being the kind of fool who continues to hunt something while knowing that they're about to disappear.
Tell that to the indigenous tribes
Did they know though?
The zoo in 1936 requested another thylacine and only then knew there were no replacements.
Imagine writing a $tμp¡d comment such as this one.
@@mhdfrb9971most indigenous tribes understood that excessive hunting was dumb. Remember that these are people that hunted only for if not mostly out of necessity
@@kev1593 what if they hunted endangered animal?
@@mhdfrb9971they became endangered due to the advent of gunpowder and accessories, making it impossible for a species to sustain. Do you think spears, bowls and arrows, or knives can decimate a species like gunpowder? The species would have got time to recover. But man started hunting for sport, for luxuries and for trophies, how can any species withstand such an onslaught? Extinctions would normally follow. That's what we are witnessing now, sadly
I don't know why but the steller's seacow and great auk really break my heart and they're kind off opposite stories. The seacow was a unique an niche creature that got immediately destroyed by humans when we found it. The auk lived together with humans for millenia, but we suddenly decided to kill them for pillows. Just think about that.
WE SUCK! And that's about it.. we should change our habits and start developing back Earth as it was before.
This will be an unpopular opinion, but if you’re a bird, and you (d)evolve to become flightless, it’s kind of a little bit your fault if you go extinct.
Dodos/Auks: “The humans are killing us!”
Other birds: “Then fly away, you dumb fucks.”
Dodos/Auks: “Er…yeah, about that…”
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@@TPRM1 humans are invasive to that island. They did not evolve to have flight because before humans there was no need.
Evolution is a slow process, so by the time they would be able to re-evolve flight, if at all, they would already be long extinct.
Who is this "we"?
@@TPRM1 this is an exceptionally terrible take
10:17 Jesus Christ they STRANGLED them? That’s horrific
Hearing That just shot through my heart. 😢
Birds breathe differently than mammals. Just compress the chest and hold it.
That's how a wounded duck is dispatched humanely
If they were capturing them as specimens, this would damage them less than shooting them.
Humans were savages in the day. Killing was nothing more than a happy game to them. Disgusting.
@@philgiglio7922I’m not sure that I would agree that suffocation is a ‘humane’ death.
I don’t understand why they wanted their species gone.
My grandfather, who was born in the 1800s, told me about seeing flocks of passenger pigeons. People assumed there would always be a Ton of them. 😢
They were very common back then, legitimately you would see them in every tree based on what past researcher says. Unfortunately with massive deforestation and habitat loss they are all gone
There used to be flocks of them so big that they would darken the skies.
Did a 200 year old person write this comment
did you mean great grandfather??
@@Abd_El-Hamid my grandfather was born in 1891. I was born 70 years later. You don’t have to be 200😀. I might feel like it some days though! Passenger pigeons didn’t go extinct until 1914. And they were hunted to extinction. It wasn’t deforestation. People would shoot flocks of them for sport.
I had never heard about that sighting of Steller's sea cow from the 1960's. That is fascinating. 😮
ive heard off an isolated community on an island report seeing them. inn Russia/sibera
I hope it was true. These are one of my favourite (supposedly) extinct animals.
@@carlkermode899 same, i really hope there are still some of them around even if noone will ever see them
It's one of these ghost stories. After all, people are seeing Woolly Mammoths, and I'm not one to call anyone else a liar. Places might have memories, and they possibly display them in color 3D from time to time.
@@DanielLLevy forrest galante, said in season 3 for extinct or alive he was going to look for the stellar sea cow at a island in that area from local reports of it.
This is such a heartbreaking video. All of it. I feel so awful for the slaughtered animals, but so much more so for those poor last survivors. These are all group and family oriented animals. It breaks my heart to think about them wandering, lonely, their instincts leaving them unfulfilled but not knowing why, not understanding why they’re alone, why their lost, always wondering where their flock or pack or pride is… God, people are cruel.
Yes We Are
Nature is cruel. and we are beings of simple desire to indulge in that nature.
@@richardnoah2922 nature is cruel, yes, but we are beings who are conscious and aware of what we’re doing- before, during, and after doing it.
@@UsDiYoNaand now, we live in the darkest age
One day the last humans will feel the same… and then our species will disappear in the sand of time
It’s really sad how docile creatures were slaughtered for being peaceful. Imagine seeing a creature, harmless, magical, I would imagine it would be an amazing experience. I can’t imagine my first thought would be to kill it.
I could if I was starving and had limited food sources. We have a luxury our ancestors didn’t. It’s different with cases where species were hunted for objects or sport though
The most dramatic and sad fate of animal extinction is Passenger Pigeon.
Started from around 5 billion when Europeans started to hunt them in 1800s then went extinct in 1914.
Humans only need a few decades to decimate them from 5 billion to ZERO.
Lies !!! Don't accuse others, it's United Statians not Europeans who shot passenger pigeon it was a known american pastime !! False accusation is defamation and can lead you to jail.
United statians are not Europeans. How hypocrite !!!
And just because they were flying over human cities...which is what _all_ birds do.
Yes those damn Europeans were so destructive
seems like Europeans creatures are the problem and not humans
Yes, and the last known passenger pigeon died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Just like Harambe did.
It’s unfortunate that these animals are no longer with us. At least we can learn from these losses and protect the animals that we still have.
It's not unfortunate at all. It's very deliberate. And no again. Industrial people are much too insane and stupid to learn from their own mistakes. They fail miserably at protecting other species still and they always will.
No one cares any more, all the cool animals are extinct
@@forestdwellerresearch6593 yeah very much so.
Lol there are poachers and trophy hunters hunting animals to extinction
A lot of animals will soon be extinct and gone
Good luck with your hoped keeping species alive
Protect the animals we still have?
You know how many people you'll have to kill to do that?
To further muddle things, Barbary lions are genetically identical to extant Asiatic Lions, and their big manes are a result of the colder temperature of where they lived. Any lion living in climates colder than Sub-Saharan Africa can grow big manes.
There’s been a fair amount of breeding involving captive Barbary lions. They may not be “pure” Barbary lions at this point but as you say they’re genetically identical to other sub-species of lions and many of their traits have been preserved. And unlike other hybrids (ligers, for instance), hybridized Barbary lions are just as fertile as any other lion since they’ve got the same number of chromosomes.
I’m gunna blame the Romans for this one.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116I blame the Romans for many extinctions
@@Togepyy don’t forget the Iberians. They’ve helped. Let’s not even mention south east Asia O_o
@@Togepyy orangutans used to be all over south east Asia, did you know? Now, they exist on 1 island. Borneo. That’s it.
Save my big orange cousins, please 🙏
People often wonder why there are no penguin in the North. But the thing is, The great auk WERE the penguin of the North.
People were more familiar with great auk in the past. So when penguin were discovered they thought this new species were related to great auk because of their appearances. So penguins were named them after the great auk's scientific name "Pinguinus".
It's a shame that human were the one that cause the extinction of this "penguin of the north".
As the only flightless marine bird of the northern hemisphere, we truly have lost a great treasure. The great auks must-have been an extremely important part of the north Atlantic ecosystem for millions of years.
Pinguinus immpennis
Well, it’s really not surprising that no one knows about them. If you made an entire species go extinct, would you want that to be known?
As an autistic person with a speacial interest in penguins, it's a shame that the only penguin bird from Ireland went extinct, the part where he said the killers showed no emotion when it was strangled made me more angry than a badger with raibes.
@@TommyRoulston123You don’t need to qualify your statements with your autistic credentials. If you removed that whole part about being autistic, what you’re interested in, etc, your statement would hold equal value. I’m not sure why so many people feel the need to qualify their comments with “as a *insert non verifiable or only loosely related personal descriptor here*, I…” Please, just stop. Speak your opinion. No need to qualify or pander for sympathy points.
Absolutely tragic. The two Icelandic men who killed the last known pair of great auks should go down in history as two very evil people. I wonder how much serious genetic testing has been done on the supposed Barbary lions in captivity and if there is any will in their former range to reintroduce them?
I get why you may think that the 2 men should be considered evil. But we cannot look into the past and place our own current moral framework upon it. We have a much better understanding of ecosystems and how they function. The men were likely just trying to hunt something for food. They may have been hungry.... But not evil.
@@thomaslove6494 From what I have read about these men, they killed this pair of great auks for the most cynical of motives - to sell as specimens, not for food. This strongly suggests that they knew the species was almost gone and were profiting from its scarcity. As fishermen, they were more than able to provide for themselves from the sea without hastening the demise of this remarkable bird. There is, in addition, a great deal of cruelty involved in the exploitation of the great auk, even by the standards of the time. Great auks were even burned alive as fuel due to their fat content. It is, I believe, a mistake to forgive humanity its crimes against nature on the surmise that people once thought differently about their relationship with said nature.
@@peterashby-saracen3681 ahh... Yes those details do make a difference... I didn't realize they knew what they were doing...
@@peterashby-saracen3681 believe me , humans are going to pay for their karma dearly. COVID was just the start .
@@peterashby-saracen3681 it is the abrahamic mindset which thinks nature is subservient to humans.
It's crazy how large they were. Also i HATE that if any ancient animal had "Tame" or unaggressive, curiosity behavior towards humans.. Then we just went "oh look how stupid they are? Let's kill them all" *Then if an animal was defensive we went" oh look how dangerous they are? Let's kill them all" *it's so frustrating because imagine how BORING a world would be with just Humans and hardly any to no Animals? Gawd, that would be such an utter nightmare. I hope we can all agree to focus on improving the health of our biodiversity on our planet and stop sterilizing our environment into this dystopian "only humans allowed" type of dysfunctional environment
It's called needing to kill to eat and live another day.
@@basileusbasil4041 you say that but most animals aren't even being eaten, just hunted for sport, birds are hunted for sport but it was also illegal, rhinos and elephants are hunted for their tusks
@@Tomas-qk5fy Not the ones in this video.
Hey now, the dodo, for example, seemed to have become extinct moreso because rats ate their eggs than humans killing them.
Besides, humans are but a dot in the history of life. Biodiversity will increase again once we're gone or we stop destroying the environment, even though it would take a few million years to fully bounce back.
@@userequaltoNull the ones in this video experienced over hunting, yeah most probably got eaten, but others got hunted for sport when Europeans came
For a lot of these animals, especially the sea going ones, they could easily still be out there in small numbers
Unlikely, but we can hope...
Great auks nested on islands in the North Atlantic. Every rock too small for people to actually live on gets visited by ornithologists quite regularly because actual real living sea birds nest on them. No one has seen any sign of a great auk for 180 years. It is extinct.
The Steller's sea cow is intriguing. The Russian coast is poorly explored and not heavily populated. It is just barely possible that the 1960's sighting was real and that an isolated population survived somewhere.
Rebuilding their numbers, waiting for REVENGE. 😈
@@KenS1267never say never but I I agree poor little guys are extinct
That's not really how it works. "Lost worlds" are extremely rare are generally they are full of endemic species that evolved to become endemic, on the long term. While theoreticaly refugia from human pressure could exist, in practice a lot of species wouldn't have the time to adapt, and humans went to a lot of places on this planet, especially isolated islands.
It's not unlikely that we discover tropical bird or small mammal species in some remote mountain jungles, or even relatively big species of whales living in deep waters. But animals living in relatively shallow waters? Never happened.
Stellar Sea Cow ---> I saw something like this off the beach in Sechelt BC Canada. It was ~1993.
12 people saw it very close up, 12 feet. It swam under us as we stood on a warf. It was as long as an Orca but much fatter around the middle. .. It had a pattern of spots on it's smooth finless back. .. I know all the animals in the Ocean around here and this was unknown.
Everybody else was stunned and had no idea what it was.
Wow!
This video made me cry. It is just so sad how much many animals went extinct due to our intervention. The death of a species feels normal when it is done by nature, but never feels normal when it is caused by us.
Crying? FFS, GET A GRIP
@@deletebilderberg Your opinion I suppose. Not like that comment you made can change how I emotionally feel about extinction.
@@deletebilderbergoi fck off the dodo was iconic
It's almost ironic that you've just provided a _perfect_ example of refusing to consider the perspective of others, @@deletebilderberg.
@@TarbosaurusBaatarbut we’re also the only ones who can staunch the bleeding. We can still treasure the animals we have now.
I am surprised that no one has, at least officially, followed up that possible Stellar Sea Cow sighting.
Do we know that though? Not like USSR/KGB would've been forthcoming about such a thing, to Western media.
@@user-ep4lv4fw9o That is why I said "officially". It is hard to say what may have been done unofficially. The USSR was not the most honest country in the world. It still would be worth checking out now.
A massive whale thing is not something easy to miss
@@user-ep4lv4fw9owhy would they want to keep giant sea cows secret
@@thebongoman627Exactly, that's what bothers me about most conspiracy theories. Governments of all times have tried to cover up stuff like military operations and experimental technology, but se cows? If anything, wouldn't an extinct species coming back to life be a huge boon to the tourist industry, reaserchers and the country's image in general?
Well... this broke my heart
Me too. Humans are the worst.
All Europeans and Americans
Let's hope for the best machines will punish humanity for the sins they have done back then....
@@i_asked_for real, don’t forget modern day Chinese and African poachers
i feel so bad for dodos especially, they were so nice to humans and were killed so quickly😢
It’s sad that so many wonderful creatures went extinct.
It's important to remember that over 99% of all organisms to have ever lived on Earth are extinct. The evolutionary process is relentless.
As kids we are afraid of monsters under our beds, as adults we realise humans are the actual monsters.
Supposedly, man has only explored a small fraction of the world’s oceans. Let’s hope it stays that way. Where humans go, death and destruction often follow.
yeah it might be best if we dont know whats down there but it might be good that we know whats down there because we might be harming it in some way
Never realized how big stellar's sea cows were. Would have been awesome to see!
Their appearance is quite stellar
They were absolutely huge. Roughly the size of a killer whale, give or take.
@@grahamstrouse1165 Thinking about it that way, the poor things were already pressured by orcas hunting them. Then we came along and...."Sustainable hunting? What's that?"
They were the largest non-whale mammals of their time. Truly gigantic.@@grahamstrouse1165
Funny how many people write Steller the wrong way. That would be like writing Woshington instead of Washington. His name was Georg Wilhelm Steller/Stöller
It never ceases to amaze me that upon the discovery of something new & potentially great, the best reaction humans tend to have is to destroy it. Just sad 😮💨😭🥀
It's a part of the cycle of destruction we have wrought upon this world. Once we have consumed every expendable resource, we move to the next planet and begin again. We are worse than a plague of locusts...unless we wake up but that requires understanding that we aren't the center of all creation and thus aren't entitled to take and keep on taking.
The extinction of the Dodo explains why we as humans deserve everything we get with the way the world is in ecological mess. It is inexplicable to me how often our specious often destroys creatures and places based on greed, ego, and hell for "sport".
What shocks me the most is the treatment of the great Auk. I wouldn't mind, but you would figure these people would have caught on that their choices in professions were dwindling as they hunted with great abandon.
I just don't understand the point
Same is still happening today to other animals, especially fish.
The money. The money are sweet, the money are good. The money is the reason behind these things. The money can be a monster sometimes. A monster many people bow to.
Profit > life.
Humans are trash.
The more rare a species the more money they will get by hunting it.
I know it's not a sighting since it's not actually seen, but surely last sounds also count. On that note the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō is famous for a video of the last member of it's species, a male, singing in a forest all alone.
That is heartbreaking.
That counts because when they recorded it the humans saw the bird.
It’s like he’s trying to find something in an empty infinite void, so sad.
This is a heartbreaking video. All of it. I feel so awful for the slaughtered animals, but so much more so for those poor last survivors. These are all group and family oriented animals. It breaks my heart to think about them wandering, lonely, their instincts leaving them unfulfilled but not knowing why, not understanding why they’re alone, why their lost, always wondering where their flock or pack or pride is… God, people are cruel.
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we are the 'covid' of the planet...
@@marktwaine9344 worse than covid
Luckily we have a deeper understanding today then we did then. Humans are not always to blame, climate, predators, extinction events and evolution taking a wrong path are also reasons. If it wasn't for humans saving the pandas they would also be extinct today. Best thing we can do is just have natural habitat untouched by humans which we seems to have today. Unfortunately poachers still exist.
@@Jakuri93 Humans are garbage.
I watch these videos all the time, knowing that I’ll be saddened and disgusted at the end.
Much slaughter of all the earths animals has always come down to money.
The love of which is truly the root of all evil.
You almost got it my friend. The money system currently in use for the last century is evil it's a floating system where money printing is not kept in check by limited natural resources such as gold. Therefore greed and interest of a minority in control of currency puts no limit on how much money they can print which is ten used to finance never ending expansion over the natural kingdom and evil.
God have mercy on us all. Money steals the humanity from the people. 😢
@@StoryGirl17 I don't know how old you are, but you must understand that money is in controlled by a small group of nefarious malfeasant people who privately run the central banks.
@@ericastier1646 That's true. But what I'm saying is that an obbsesive love for money can destroy a person's humanity, because it makes them want to obtain that money at all costs.
@@StoryGirl17 obsession with money is caused by an erosion and unavailability of natural pursuits in life due to a society that forces people into a work, eat, sleep mold imposed by bankers which are a parasite layer of society and big corporations that profit only few people.
Very interesting, I love the idea of Stellar Sea cows possible being still around.
Forrest Gelante thinks they could still be alive. And I have to believe him since he found so many "extinct" species.
Gallante does good work, but he also tends to exaggerate and sensationalize. I’ll believe it when I see it
@@mattgehringer8554 true but it's necessary to spread the word.
So perhaps other scientists will go look there.
@@GibbonLord
What he does has nothing to do with finding extinct species. He disturbs species that may or may not be extinct (and often live in refugia where scientists decide not to go, to give a chance to potentially recovering species), sometimes making up evidence. Don't believe anything he claims.
Yea, it lives in harmony with Big foot and the woolly mammoth. They get together and play the wii every Sunday.
'Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things, everything degenerates in the hands of man.' ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Indeed💯
Notice WHICH men's hands these things degenerated in.
Great video!
The passenger pigeon I think is one of the saddest.
You’re confused with carrier pigeon. Passenger pigeons weren’t used for that. Different species.
You're mistaken. The last known passenger pigeon died in an American zoo only two months after Franz Ferdinand was assassinated (lighting the fuse for WWI).
8:57 In Maine we still have other Great Auk relatives with one looking super similar to the great Auk, I think sometimes people mistake them for great Auk but they’re a lot smaller (Razorbills, Common Murres, and The Black Guillemot, also sometimes Puffins but they’re well known enough so they don’t get mistaken often)
Razorbills look the most similar imo
Razorbills do look similar but the huge size and tiny wings of the great auk were highly distinctive.
Razorbills are the closest living relatives as far as I’m aware.
@@peterashby-saracen3681 yeah but people often mistake animals they’ve only ever heard of for something else.
Cough cough Bigfoot cough
@@Pandacalifornia yep
Man some of the things that humans did in the past makes my blood boil
They're still doing it and it's really just a small percentage of humans backed by the power of money that are guilty.
We haven't gotten any better. Maybe we don't hunt animals as much, but they're going extinct at a far faster rate because we refuse to stop destroying habitat.
@@rebeccahicks2392 I think it's not "we" it is a hypocrite system in which the crime is dissociated from those that order it. Namely the floating currency system and perpetual economical growth is incompatible with nature preservation. That type of system has to keep destroying to maintain profit by expansion. It is wrong. At the core of this mentality is the floating currency system federal bank that prints money without backing it up by material ressources to responsibilize it. When illimited money is in supply , infinite destruction ensues. We are still very far from a nature protective way of economical life. And it's not "we" but a small minority that pushes that floating currency capitalism. We must return to a backed currency system.
White people ☝️
@@Qwerty-qy9ojAh yes, african poachers are white right
Great video bro!
Humanity really does destroy everything we touch
This made me so sad
And angry. What a bunch of horrible beings. Something needs to be done about humans....
@@TeethToothman you can blame Evolution for that
@@mhdfrb9971 i blame people who like the dallas cowboys
It's insane how humans only started to consider extinction seriously was way back in the 19th century.
Corresponds with Charles Darwin's research. I think the concept that a species could be lost forever was unknown to many people prior to his work
We are a disgusting species
That image of the Barbary Lion is one of the most beautiful and haunting photos I've ever seen.
That photo of the last lonely Barbery lion always gets me.could you imagine wandering around all by yourself never to find anything like yourself.just sad what they did to so a majestic beautiful animal smh.
I think my aunt saw a great auk on a cruise ship. She swore she saw a penguin on a remote shore I think in Norway in the 1950s
Yk there are other birds in Norway
This is so upsetting! I wish these animals had been properly protected from extinction!
If i _"enjoyed"_ this video? No... no, i dindn't... but not because the quality is bad, it is in fact one of the best I have ever seen, but because it reminded me once again of how truly monstrous humans are and always have been, it seems that the only thing we have ever done is kill and destroy without giving the slightest bit to the damage we caused... and I'm sure we would never change.😣
I recently learned that dodos look like baby pigeons and i'm so sad I wont see a baby dodo now 😭 I want to know so badly
Play ARK: Survival Ascended and you’ll have all the dodos you want!
well there closes living relative are Nicobar pigeon so it is not to surprising there are similarity's
they kinda look like short ducks
In my homeland in Belfast, it’s rumoured that the lions it has are Barbary Lions. And they’ve just recently opened and habilitation for Barbary Lions. If the lions are Barbary Lions, then hopefully that means we may bring back an extinct animal back to the wild.
Beautiful video topic 😊
Great video
The kaua’i ‘ö’ö’ bird is arguably the saddest and most tragic
The story of the Great Auk is the best example I know of human greed and stupidity.
Great video...👍
I didn’t know about the arctic sea cows or the Auk. Fascinating thank you for the video.
So stellars sea cow may still exist and be making a secret comeback. The great auk might be extinct but we don’t really know for sure. I NEED THEM BOTH BACK, THEIR EXTINCTION IS SO SAD 😭
They probably arent, none of those animals where shy (thats why they ended up like that) so with modern tech we probably would have spotted them long ago
@@user-nw1je1ur6t Just let us have hope
Newfoundland resident here, there could have be a flourishing population of Great Ox here and we wouldn’t have known. There’s a startling amount of this island not inhabited today let alone in the 60s. Just a string of communities along the coastlines. This place is older than dirt itself
Thanks for the arrow in the thumbnail, I wouldn’t have noticed the giant stellar sea cow otherwise
Technically one should say "dodos" since there were apparently TWO species; the Mauritius Dodo (which is the one most of us think of) and the White Dodo, which lived on the neighboring island of Reunion. There were a few other flightless pigeon relatives int he area as well, like the Solitare of Rodriguez island, but they also went extinct fairly early, for probably much the same reason.
The white dodo is now largely considered to have never existed. The wikipedia paragraph has a pretty good explanation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo#White_dodo ; but basically there was a flightly ibis in La Réunion that was confused with the dodo by some skipper.
@@Ezullof Oh, I see. Up[ until now, I had only seen the painting as an black and white engraving, and mistook the naked part of the head for more feathers, which I thought was a defining characteristic (regular dodos had that big naked patch on the front of the head, while the white ones had feathers all the way to the beak with a blackish streak across the eye.)
This is such a sad video... I feel bad for these beautiful lost animals.
What was most chilling to me was how little hunters cared then.
"An animal never knows it's the last if its kind. It simply is, and then it isn't."
God this is so SAD 😭 why are people LIKE THIS?!
Sometimes, I feel like we are a plague..
I’m not a fan of the de-extinction concept for Pleistocene animals, or animals that died out in the last few thousand years, and likely went extinct due to various natural factors. However, animals that died out in the last 500 or so year due to us, I wouldn’t be against bringing back since they would naturally still be existing.
All life is sacred and should be preserved to its fullest as long as the earth orbits the sun. All except pandas, they are just begging for extinction
Humans are responsible for most extinction events in the last 50000 years, many of those animals would be alive without human intervention. The extinction rate over this time is 100s of times higher than the background extinction rate.
@@RaptorRockDrakeJesuswhy do you hate mixed people
@@firecracka94 what????
@@thescoffe he said he didn't like pandas
awesome video! supe rinteresting
small critique - your voice audio needs leveled :D
Man that's SO sad. People are so cruel to animals
Not sure "enjoyed" is the word, but I certainly appreciated the video.
This video fills me with sadness and remorse for the human race.
It's sad that it's humans that have caused the rapid extinction of so many species, it's almost like we're the problem in the world.
I want movies based on older times to include the animals that existed back then. That would be a wonderful tribute to keep the memory going.
9:06 that's a picture of the last Great Auk ever found in Britain, in 1840 a great auk was collected from a sea stack in St Kilda, Scotland. Then a massive storm swept in and the three men who caught the auk believed it was a witch and was causing the storm. So they beat it to death with a stick
Ah, Scotland
@@MinistryofChaosTV more like silly human superstition
People always show their stupidity. Sadly, the same thing would still happen today. 😞
Terrible. 😢
incredibly sad. I am so ashamed of human beings
Thanks, ExtinctZoo. There are some lions in the King's reserve.
its been a while since the ending of a TH-cam video has made me cry the lone survivor of its species looking for a mate is just heartbreaking
The pods of Steller's Sea Cows that were present around the Commander Islands were a relict population. The earlier, wider-spread populations had already been hunted to extinction by American Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos. The Sea Cows were not alone. Indians hunted a giant flightless-duck that lived on the coasts and the islands of the Pacific to extinction as well as a group of Pygmy Mammoths that lived on the Channel Islands off the coast of California. Georg Steller himself urged the Imperial Tsarist authorities to decree protection for the Sea Cows, but St. Petersburg was very far away, and the sailors who were not exactly living in luxury simply took advantage of an easy source of meat, leather and fat.
Weird how you managed to casually use two slurs in one sentence. I'm sure your opinion is completely objective and lacking an agenda. /s
In 2012, I took my kids to make the pilgrimage to Paris' Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in order to see the complete skeleton of the Steller Sea Cow they have on display. The rest of their collection is equally worth a visit. They have a genuine late Eocene Great Sea Serpent skeleton a.k.a. Basilosaurid, and the fossilized remains of smaller, and much older critters in the gallery upstairs are very interesting too.
In any case, a stroll in the nearby Jardin des Plantes, the most public Botanical Garden of them all, is highly recommended as well. Photography is allowed at both sites, so do plan accordingly for the season and the lighting!
@@TheWoollyFrog You racial Marxists are insufferable.
@@TheWoollyFrogand do whataboutism at the same time.
And those same "natives" made it like "the white man" destroyed all their food sources. Humans are just a destructive species, regardless of nationality.
Well, that was super depressing.
This was genuinely gut wrenching too watch, how these poor animals faded into extinction and no one did anything to stop it
love this
Just shows what pests humans are, so sad all these beautiful animals are all gone.
As an Algerian, my Grandma telled me about the barbary lion and how magnificent these creatures are. 😢🦁
keep making these kind of videos please😢
If I'm not mistaken , the Auk was mentioned in one of the LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE books . (By the shores of silver lake ? ).
Now I get it , Babbad Sher or the villain of the Jungle Story by Rudyard Kipling was a Barbary lion, it has the same dark brown mane shown in the sketch
Imagine having a time machine and introduce a viable alternative to Auk feathers for pillows
I love manatees. I'm so glad you included timestamps so I could jump right to the sea cow part.
This made me tear up fam😢
Stellar's sea cow was similar to many other large fauna that encountered humans that were expanding their range. The giant creatures must have been an easy banquet for early hunters, and only managed to survive because the Commander Islands are way off the beaten track in frigid, dangerous waters. If local natives had known about them, they surely would have perished even sooner.
The indigenous people would of likely taken what they needed and been self sufficient with their food supply. Like how the bison were fine until colonists upset the balance and went overkill
Hmmm... I wonder if a great Auk can still be found here in Canada. I live in British Columbia, would love to travel to the eastern seaboard and search for that bird. But the distance between here and there is great and polar bears are all over the great white north
No, we ate em all.
GREAT video, and rightly so caused me to buckle somewhat to the sadness of losing these innocent animals. Sometimes when I hear people over-think ethics and argue about possibly bringing some species back through cloning... I think "well yeah, I don't think you need to bring back animals that were wiped out by an asteroid, but for logic's sake, PLEASE wake up and see that we can give some that WE wiped out another try!!! Even if it's "difficult" (oh... where will we PUT them?), as in ecosystems they need etc... well we should try to make it right! Come on!! Won't that at least show we've learned something? I can't believe they don't even want to try going the right direction for once!! I mean jeeze, not only are we still drowning in our own waste and seeing very little promise for saving ourselves from resource and pollution problems, we don't even want to TRY and restore the balance we had before our journey to ruin everything? Why keep pretending the earth is supposed to be a big shopping center? For those still hooked on god and that this was all put here for us to use and abuse... do you really think your god wants you to do that? Where in the bible does it say to trash the place, wipe out all other animals (besides corporate interest in cattle, chickens and pigs).... and that god would just keep restocking the crap we like to throw away? I'll help you.... it DOESN'T say that anywhere.
Clean up, find ways to stop wasting energy (solar, duhhhh what I said about thirty years ago might be worth looking into for everything. Hello.)... think about the population and that we do NOT need to keep businesses growing. That is a MYTH, because some who have a lot want more. Period.
Oh yeah and have some curiosity about what the world might have been like before we ran it over. Wake up.
this is heartbreaking
Human Beings, the biggest Monsters of all...
Can you make a video about the caspian tiger? He might be still alive ...
This is some pretty good TTS MIT
Very interesting
What about the thylacine? Last reported sightings in the 80s I think.
Local people and the aborigines still see them quite frequently
@@tannermcguire7713wait, so they aren’t confirmed to be extinct?
@@nicolefloofthey are "confirmed extinct" in 1936, but have been seen by people on Tasmania, the Australian mainland, and Papua New Guinea to the present day. None of these sightings have been recognized by the scientific community who still insist they are extinct.
@@seabass1180 Btw, there’s a crazy theory that chupacabra sightings are due to a breeding pair of thylacines escaping from a boat that was transporting animals to a zoo
@@seabass1180 probably because zero ACTUAL evidence has been shown of their continued existence. Science doesn't do "my friend's cousin's brother saw as ___."
I've never heard anyone pronounce doves like that before.....
This hurt my heart..
can you make another video or maybe an entire series