Extinct Animals

Below are lists of animals that elready extinct. If you have or know one, please add it in this topic.


Mammoth & Quagga


*Quagga Horse, the last one, a mare, died in an Amsterdam Zoo in 1883, after all the wild ones in Africa had been killed for sport.

Tasmanian tiger



*A stuffed specimen of the now extinct Tasmanian tiger, a carnivorous marsupial, last specimen died in 1934. Stuffed specimen exhibited at the Natural History museum of St. Petersburg, Russia.

*Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, was the only home of the dodo, a large, flightless bird that weighed up to 14 kg and was very good to eat. Dodos were an easy-to-catch source of food for sailors and settlers.

Having developed in isolation, the dodo easily fell victim to this new pressure. In addition, forest clearing destroyed the bird’s habitat, and introduced pigs, goats, cats, rats, and monkeys became competitors as well as predators.

First seen by Europeans in 1507, the dodo was extinct by 1681. Today it is represented in museums by only parts of skeletons and one complete skeleton made up of many individuals.

Passenger Pigeon

Once a common bird of eastern North America, the passenger pigeon became extinct very quickly. Early records, beginning in 1630, describe its migrations, roosting and nesting in enormous numbers, but by 1912 there were rewards offered for evidence of a live, wild bird.

Although there is a question of the natural survival of a bird that roosted in numbers that destroyed forests, that laid one or two eggs in a flimsy nest, and that suffered losses from overcrowding and nestling mortality, humans finally doomed the bird to extinction. Shot, trapped, and clubbed for market, hog food, and sport, it could not survive. The world's last passenger pigeon died in a zoo in 1914.

Carolina Parakeet

With the spread of agriculture, this brilliantly coloured bird developed a liking for the seeds of many kinds of fruit and grain crops. For this, and its habit of gathering in great destructive flocks, it was condemned as a pest and subjected to wholesale slaughter. Many were also sold as pets.

Once common in the southeastern United States, the Carolina parakeet became increasingly scarce as deforestation reduced its habitat. Already rare by the mid 1880s, its last stand was in Florida, where, in 1920, a flock of 30 birds was the last ever seen of the only native parrot of the United States.

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i'm so pity to the extinct animal.........

I know what kind of animal that has been extinct


THE DINOSAUR

very good baxley...

Thank you

baxley,do you know how dinosaur extinct? you seem to know a lot about dinosaur.

Is the picture real?Well iam not quiet know...I need some more reading.

HOW DO DINOSAURS EXTINCT??

So Baxley since you know so much about dinosaurs ,how do dinosaurs extinct??I seriously don't know how do dinosaurs extinct..hehe..

yes, where are you baxley?

THE HALF ZEBRA

Do you know about it admin?