Video: An extinct species of animals, or Humanity's mistakes
2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:43
Despite the fact that humanity has recently become more responsible and careful about nature, trying to preserve it with all its might, from time to time another extinct species of animals appears. Often people are wrong about this. Many mistakenly believe that only dinosaurs were among the extinct, but in the last millennium in history, mankind parted with some representatives of the fauna forever.
A recently extinct animal species is the Alaotran grebe. These birds were quite similar to wild ducks. They lived near the island of Madagascar, next to Lake Alaotra. Thanks to him they got their name. Their extinction is a classic mistake of mankind, since the fight against poaching did not begin at full speed when these birds were already on the verge of extinction. In addition, during the development of new lands by man, the local fish, which formed the basis of the diet of grebes, began to leave their habitat. And in 2010, the last contact with this bird was recorded. She was never seen again, which gives reasontalk about her being extinct.
Perhaps the only extinct animal species that is itself to blame for its inability to continue to exist is the Steller or, as it is also called, the sea cow. The fact is that they are completely defenseless, and the only thing that could scare away predators from them is their large weight and size. In length, they reached eight meters, and the mass of an adult individual was approximately three tons. Their passivity and complete apathy could well lead to extinction, even if a person tried to save this species. It is worth noting that fishermen off the coast of the Arctic Ocean manage to see creatures that are very similar to Steller, but there is no confirmation of this. The sea cow is believed to have died out in 1768.
The most famous extinct species of animals is the primitive bulls tours. Their fame is due to the fact that these large animals were hunted by noble people, representatives of the aristocracy. Initially, tours appeared in India, then spread to the territory of Central Asia and only then migrated to Europe. It is worth paying attention to the fact that they began to take care of the preservation of this species a long time ago, back in the 13th century. However, the efforts were not enough, and the last female aurochs died in Poland in 1627.
The good news is that endangered species in Russia are strictly protected. Zoologists and representatives of environmental protection societies make every effort to ensure that rare species of animals can live and breed in peace invarious reserves. And those animals that cannot be kept in free conditions are settled in zoos, where they contribute in every possible way to procreation.
Unfortunately, at the moment, the only way to see extinct species of animals is through photos, drawings, or archive footage. If you take a list of those animals that humanity will never be able to meet again, then you can be horrified by its size. That is why today we should take a more responsible approach to the conservation of the remaining animals, because tomorrow absolutely everything may be on the verge of extinction.
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