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The animals that disappeared at the fault of the people. Photo

Животные, исчезнувшие по вине людей. ФотоEvery year our planet is increasingly suffering from human populations.

Water, forests, the air is already poisoned man. Along with the forests disappear and animals. Today we decided to show you who could populate our planet today, if not for the neglect of man.

Tarpan

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Животные, исчезнувшие по вине людей. Фото

The Tarpan is a fast and extremely hardy, vigorous animals, very wicked and wild, the domestication does not give in adulthood.

In the 13 – 14th centuries they were the subject of intensive hunting. In some cases, they caught and rode, the Lithuanian princes to repair the horse’s structure and supply the army meat caught silverfish in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The last wild Tarpan was killed in 1814 in the territory of modern Kaliningrad region.

Dodo, or the Dodo of the Mauritius

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The Dodo lived in Mauritius for several centuries, it is not fear of their natural enemies, which simply did not exist on the island. That is why the bird was flightless — she just had no one to hide.

First saw the bird in 1598, Dutch sailors, and after 100 years it was completely destroyed — tried by travelers themselves, and the animals brought to Mauritius by the settlers. Still, think of yourself, how attractive for sailors was the dinner of the 20-pound birds, the closest relatives of which are considered modern pigeons.

Sea cow

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Steller’s cow lived off the coast of the commander Islands and had not only a low mobility, huge size and a complete lack of fear of man, but also a delicious meat. The latter was the cause that in less than 30 years after his discovery of the sea cow was extinct.

Pigeon

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Reducing the number of pigeons took place more or less smooth pace until about 1870, then in less than 20 years their numbers have decreased catastrophically and the last pigeon in the wild was seen in 1900.

In captivity, the passenger pigeon has lasted until 1914 when at the zoo of Cincinnati, died last bird named Martha.

North African antelope cow

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Hunting them was so active that the last few decades of its existence, cow antelopes are found only in really remote places, several African countries, is not completely died out by the middle of the last century.

Javanese tiger

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In the nineteenth century Javanese tiger met throughout the island of Java and regularly plagued its inhabitants. Maybe it was one of the reasons is active on his hunt, and maybe something else, but the fact remains: by 1950, alive on the island there were only 20-25 individuals.
And half of these tigers lived on the territory of a specially created reserve. But even this was not enough for the salvation of the population, and by 1970 their number was reduced to seven individuals. The exact time of the extinction of Javanese tigers remains unknown, but most likely, it happened in the mid 1970-ies.

From time to time there appear reports that in Java again saw the Javanese tiger, or even a mother with several cubs, but no documentary evidence that tigers can still be found in nature, no.

The Zanzibar leopard

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Campaign for the extermination of animals began in the second half of 1960-ies, and after some 30 years of the Zanzibar leopard is almost gone in the wild. Scientists began to sound the alarm in the early 90-ies of the last century, but after a few years, the program on conservation was discontinued as hopeless.

Pyrenean ibex

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One of the four known species of Spanish wild goat, which, unlike the others, was not lucky to survive to the present day. The last known representative of this species died completely ridiculous death — it crushed a fallen tree.
Scientists were able to take DNA samples, and they attempted to create a clone of the ibex, but unfortunately, the cloned calf died shortly after birth due to various birth defects.

Western black Rhino

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This subspecies of black Rhino was declared extinct just a couple of years ago. He was the victim of regular hunting on the territory of its habitat in Cameroon. Most valuable to poachers was considered Rhino horn, used in Chinese medicine to treat numerous diseases.

The Tasmanian wolf

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The Tasmanian or marsupial wolf, also known as the thylacine, lived in mainland Australia and the island of New Guinea. For the first time his habitat has changed after the New Guinea people were transported Dingo. The latter has displaced the marsupial wolf with his usual habitat, and in our time he moved to live on the island of Tasmania.
Believed to be the last marsupial wolf was killed may 13, 1930, and in 1936 in a zoo in Australia died of old age last marsupial wolf, captive.

The woolly mammoth

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It is believed that this species of mammoths first appeared in Siberia about 300-250 thousand years ago and gradually spread to Europe and North America. Dimensions mammoths weren’t so huge, according to most not too familiar with the history of the people: they were a little bigger than the modern elephants.
Mammoths lived in groups, which was headed by the eldest female, and constantly moved from place to place as an adult mammoth was required about 180 pounds of food daily. That — and this obviously does not imply the retreat.
Fully woolly mammoth disappeared about 10 thousand years ago. Although there are many theories why they became extinct (loss of genetic diversity, climate change, epidemic outbreak, etc.), modern studies are increasingly inclined to think that the final blow to this type of mammoths have caused it.

MoA

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The giant extinct birds of the squad moorash. Lived in New Zealand. Had no wings (and even their vestiges). Known 15 species, all extinct: the largest of them, Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae, reached about 3.6 m and weighed about 250 lbs. According to the method of nutrition of herbivores (fed on the leaves, shoots, fruit). It is assumed that the MoA became extinct around 1500 ad, destroyed by the aboriginal Maori. According to unconfirmed accounts, the individual members of the species Megalapteryx didinus were still together at the end of XVIII — early XIX century.

Strickweste

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The order (Tinamiformes Huxley, 1872) and family (Tinamidae G. R. Gray, 1840) ratites birds that live in South and Central America. Despite their resemblance to chickens, the closest relatives of krutogolov are ostrich-like.

Flightless Razorbill

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This large bird was exterminated in the mid-nineteenth century. Due to the weak development of the wings she could not fly on land was hard, but great to swim and dive. In the XVI century the Icelanders have produced eggs wingless auks all boats, but in 1844 were killed the last two birds, and since then, reports of these birds were reported.

The Carolina parakeet

Животные, исчезнувшие по вине людей. Фото

an extinct bird of the parot family. The only species of the genus. Body length 32 cm, wing — 19 cm, a wingspan of 55 cm, tail length 15 cm Main color of plumage dark grass-green. Front part of the head and flanks are orange-red. The continuing persecution of individuals due to the harm these parrots fields and fruit trees. At the Cincinnati zoo remained the last two individuals. Their names were Lady Jane and Incas. But, unfortunately, Lady Jane died in the summer of 1917, and after it died the Inkas in February 1918. Wild birds were last seen in 1926, in Florida, around lake Okeechobee, and the rumors about meetings in the Carolina parrot was distributed in Florida, Alabama, Georgia until 1938. How accurate this information is unknown.

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