17 fascinating animals that humans made go extinct

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Species that we'll never see again​

When we speak of extinction, the mind transports us to the time of the dinosaurs. However, throughout more recent history many animals disappeared, either due to natural causes, by evolution itself or by the actions of man.

 

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20% of the animals on our planet are in danger​

At the moment, 20 percent of all animal species on our planet are in danger of extinction. They face the fate of others that are already extinct. Let's remember some of those that we can never see again.

 

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Tasmanian tiger: the animal some say never left​

Native to Australia and New Guinea, the Tasmanian tiger - also known as a wolf instead of a tiger - was a distant relative of the Tasmanian devil, experts say.

 

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Some believe the Tasmanian tiger is hiding​

The latest news of these striped-bodied animals, whose disappearance is attributed to hunting, dates back to the sixties of the last century. Some say that there are still specimens that have survived and are hiding from the world, but no one has been able to provide conclusive evidence to prove this.

 

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Dodo: the strange flightless bird from the island of Mauritius​

The dodo is perhaps the animal most recognized by people when it comes to extinction - with the permission of the dinosaurs, of course. This flightless bird, large and with a more than peculiar appearance, disappeared around the end of the 18th century.

 

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The Dodo was over-hunted​

It lived on the island of Mauritius, in the middle of the Indian Ocean and near Madagascar. Of course, humans are behind its disappearance because it was hunted for its meat. Subsequently, humans also brought other types of predators to the island, and that hastened the dodo's extinction.

 

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Woolly rhinoceros: an imposing beast that lived in Europe​

The woolly rhinoceros, very similar to its descendants that we know today, but much more imposing and with a good coat of hair, lived in Europe and northern Asia. It was found in places from central Spain and southern England to southern Siberia and Mongolia.

 

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Surviving the ice age only to be killed off by man​

The woolly rhinoceros survived the last ice age but not the action of man, which made it disappear by hunting the animal. Other issues also contributed to its demise, such as a 'super disease' that arose due to thawing and climate change.

 

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West African black rhino: the last of its kind to go extinct​

While the woolly rhinoceros is far behind us in history, the West African black rhinoceros, also known as the western black rhinoceros, was only declared officially extinct in 2011.

 

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The black rhino was a victim of poaching​

The loss of this important animal is due to irresponsible hunting and poaching, which had already been prohibited since the thirties of the last century.

 

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20% of the animals on our planet are in danger​

At the moment, 20 percent of all animal species on our planet are in danger of extinction. They face the fate of others that are already extinct. Let's remember some of those that we can never see again.

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Quagga: half horse, half zebra​

Half horse, half zebra, the quaggas, too, were victims of human folly. It turns out that the great beauty of this animal, which lived in South Africa and had a brown body and striped front like zebras, led people to poach them as a trophy.

 

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The quagga was also wiped out by humans​

Instead of enjoying them, they preferred to kill them. Around the 1880s the last quagga was seen in captivity.

 

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Irish moose: the older brother of today's moose​

In addition to parts of Alaska, Canada and northern Europe, moose once also inhabited Ireland. Their appearance was very similar to the moose of today, but the Irish moose was much larger.

 

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Also known as the Irish deer​

According to scientists, this moose - or Irish deer, as it is also called - could reach a height of two meters and had antlers more than three and a half meters in length. Its extinction dates from about 7,700 years ago, and its causes were probably climate changes and hunting.

 

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Steller's sea cow: a huge marine mammal of up to nine meters​

This Sirenian mammal could reach a size of eight to nine meters in length. It could weigh four to ten tons.

 

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Steller's sea cow called the water between Taiwan and New Guinea home​

The Steller's sea cow appeared in the waters between the islands of Taiwan and New Guinea, but its uncontrolled hunting caused their definitive extinction in 1768.

 

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Pinta giant tortoise: a very recent loss​

The disappearance of the Pinta giant tortoise came after years of hunting and trading them, as their meat and shell were very valuable. Lonesome George appeared to be the last living specimen of the Pinta giant tortoise. He died on June 24, 2012 in the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador.

 

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A female Pinta may have been sighted​

In 2019, the good news arrived that a female Pinta had been sighted on the Galapagos island of Fernandina. For now it is unclear whether the species can be preserved.

 

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Java tiger: removed from its habitat by the proliferation of crops​

The Java tiger is not very different from other tiger types, but it was indigenous to the Indonesian island of Java.