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- alex7575, on 04/03/2009, -12/+254Dugg for "Syrian Wild Ass"
- Syric, on 04/03/2009, -1/+184"The Pyrenean Ibex has one of the more interesting stories among extinct animals, since it was the first species to ever be brought back into existence via cloning, only to go extinct again just seven minutes after being born due to lung failure."
"YAY!......aw." - i23Photography, on 04/03/2009, -1/+135Paradox!
- Exekutor, on 04/03/2009, -6/+123FTA: "in 1703 the Catholic bishop of Quebec actually excommunicated the entire species"
Catholic church FTW! - username7410, on 04/03/2009, -19/+119Mankind has obviously played an unbalanced role, but, extinction is a normal event.
- PropaMcGanda, on 04/03/2009, -3/+84Poor dolphin. It survived 20 million years until we came along. The little fella looks all smiley too.
- _skin_, on 04/03/2009, -52/+131Soon it will be us. I just wish I could be here to see the world without humans.
- wizzroom, on 04/03/2009, -5/+71there are some dumb ass comments on here.
- blindmelon1, on 04/03/2009, -0/+56"Smoking while cloning, harms your baby"
- Surgeon General. - manzplan, on 04/03/2009, -16/+68how sad, such beautiful animals lost forever.. while humans dominate once again
- Raiu, on 04/03/2009, -6/+57What a depressing article.
20 million years a dolphin survives and it only takes a few thousand due to human interaction to kill it off. - Darkkshadow449, on 04/03/2009, -0/+48RIP the Quagga. :(
- PwncakesFTW, on 04/03/2009, -6/+54Syrian Wild Asses are definitely not extinct. Go to Syria, you'll see plenty of em.
- Spanq, on 04/03/2009, -1/+48Whatever you say, Mr. Days of Our Lives.
- danr2c2, on 04/03/2009, -7/+53What about ManBearPig?
- Inaktivist, on 04/03/2009, -2/+40What kind of world would let an animal with that incredible name go extinct? I guess it's kind of hard to market "Save the Syrian Wild Ass" to the masses without getting laughed at.
- Zyvo, on 04/03/2009, -9/+45I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
- rhavenn, on 04/03/2009, -8/+40Right. Let me turn your drinking water and habitat into a sludge pit and see how long you survive. Maybe I should just burn your house down and see if you survive without that? Sure, humans can probably rebuild and move on, but seriously are you really that dense to think that a species like a river dolphin should really be able to cope with a change that happened over maybe 100 years and turned it's home into a ***** hole, literally and figuratively? Or a frog who happens to breathe mostly through his skin suddenly getting his pores suffocated by a deluge of pesticide or other crap, not to mention that his home just got turned into a sugar field?
- amabaie, on 04/03/2009, -1/+31At least we have the photographs.
- GodsTwin, on 04/03/2009, -0/+29I miss the Dodo
- mikeinto, on 04/03/2009, -8/+35very incomplete list ! Not included are :
Siberian Sand Squirrel
Outback Feathered Willogoose
The North American Jabberwocky
The South American Recluse Web Footed Brown Nosed Monkey
Bald Africanized European Stormtrooper Sour Honey Bee - LonelyTylenoL, on 04/03/2009, -1/+25Are you high?
Regardless, you could be a good sci-fi writer... - inactive, on 04/03/2009, -2/+25Kill yourself to make a point.
- inactive, on 04/03/2009, -7/+29*british accent* A solitary predator...the bulbasaur stalks it prey.
- twinklyJesus, on 04/03/2009, -4/+26That dolphin wasn't more than 30 when he died.
- nepidae, on 04/03/2009, -6/+25Are you a robot or something?
- xadhominemx, on 04/03/2009, -4/+23Why are we *****?
- FutureGuy, on 04/03/2009, -5/+24"In 1896, the last flock of 250,000 birds were slaughtered by hunters despite the knowledge that it was the last flock of that size left."
Sounds like a normal and natural event.
/s - identifiedlogo, on 04/03/2009, -3/+21I wonder whose picture is going to show up when we are extinct.
- inactive, on 04/03/2009, -4/+21Well, we conserve living tissue of endangered animals now. So we expect that future animals to go extinct will be brought back to life. Even past animals might be brought back, like mammoths and stuff like that.
- smurfsahoy, on 04/03/2009, -6/+23Oh my god, if only the hunters realized that they were killing things!!! Everything would be different!
- DforSpiD, on 04/03/2009, -0/+15A Chinese or Indian person probably
- venomoushealer, on 04/03/2009, -0/+15There is nothing like a good Snipe hunt. I used to kill those ***** by the dozens.
- nepidae, on 04/03/2009, -1/+15The ambulances will have to wait.
- apcracker, on 04/03/2009, -7/+21Its sad yes, but it happens. It happens b/c people believe that governments and regulations are the way to stop animals from going extinct. If you look at history you would learn that governments sanctioned most of the mass killings of animals. Buffalo, Tasmanian Tiger, Passenger Pigeon, Wolves, Bear, and so on. All the greenies hate hunters but why? Hunters love animals. The animals i hunt on my private property have food plots i planted, they have small made ponds to drink from i dug. Most hunters spend more time in the woods learning how to live with nature and to make sure next year there will be more deer, bear, turkey, hogs to hunt. How many of you have spent hours in the woods clearing land for fruit trees or plant pine trees or doing anything for wild life? Private property will save endanger animals not more government intervention. Its a old sayin my dad said to me “son leave it better than you found it” So stop bithin and go buy land and protect it. Put your money and time where your mouth is and don’t rely on the government to do the work for you. if you want voice you opinion go to freetalklive.com and call in.
- FyreWolfe, on 04/03/2009, -2/+16Please see http://www.quaggaproject.org/ which is an attempt to revive the Quagga.
- inactive, on 04/03/2009, -8/+22God is insulted by your lack of appreciation for his greatest creation. Prepare to be punished in no way whatsoever, heathen!
- Nova1021, on 04/03/2009, -3/+17Yeah, some animals just fail. But the point of the article, in case you missed it in the first sentence, is that humans have accelerated the rate of natural extinction by 100 to 1000 times. Explain to me how that's a good thing.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 04/03/2009, -0/+14North American Snipe
- iticu, on 04/03/2009, -8/+22I don't get the whole idea that nature is a wodnerful, sentient thing that ahs the best interests of all at heart and we're messing that up. Seriously, when we all die, what is the world? A bunch of mindless machines programmed to do the only thing they know how; to eat and die.
The fact that we're having this conversation shows how much better we are than them. - kakwakas, on 04/03/2009, -0/+13Dude, no. They photosynthesize.
- foucaultsvac, on 04/03/2009, -3/+16Except for you, right?
- LordBalderdash, on 04/03/2009, -1/+13also:
red-crested bum-fister
spiny marmagoot - dittonara, on 04/03/2009, -0/+12I'd hit it.
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+12You've never been to LA, have you?
- KibblesnBitts, on 04/03/2009, -0/+12At least the sparrow is still thriving in China despite Mao's best efforts
- Conguent, on 04/03/2009, -0/+12Dugg for thylacine.
- inactive, on 04/03/2009, -0/+12That frog looked AWESOME!
- amabaie, on 04/03/2009, -2/+14Jurasaic Park.
- ReDoEr, on 04/03/2009, -3/+15I hope so, because hunting mammoths would be WAY awesome.
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