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Rare footage of extinct animals - a thread
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:15 pm
Actually a fascinating thread with various videos and pictures of extinct species.
Thread on X
The Tasmanian tiger, or Thylacine, became extinct in mainland Australia and New Guinea long ago. Its range was restricted to Tasmania, where the last captive died in 1936.
The Tasmanian tiger was actually a marsupial.
Thread on X
The Tasmanian tiger, or Thylacine, became extinct in mainland Australia and New Guinea long ago. Its range was restricted to Tasmania, where the last captive died in 1936.
The Tasmanian tiger was actually a marsupial.
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Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:18 pm to Nole Man
For those without X accounts, we can't see threads, just the direct single post... maybe some of y'all can post more xposts from the thread? Seems like a neat topic!
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:21 pm to Nole Man
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The Tasmanian tiger
Not going to be extinct much longer baw
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:23 pm to SallysHuman
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For those without X accounts, we can't see threads, just the direct single post... maybe some of y'all can post more xposts from the thread? Seems like a neat topic!
Same here. I don't need or want youtwitokface. T.D is all I need.
It is nice that X allows non users to see posts. Most of the social media won't let you see anything unless you join.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:24 pm to Nole Man
There isn't an American alive capable of adequately comprehending what the Passenger Pigeon actually was on the North American landscape.
-John James Audubon
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"I dismounted, seated myself on an eminence, and began to mark with my pencil, making a dot for every flock that passed. In a short time finding the task which I had, undertaken impracticable, as the birds poured in in countless multitudes, I rose, and counting the
dots then put down, found that 163 had been made in twenty-one minutes. I traveled on, and still met more the farther I proceeded. The air was literally filled with Pigeons; the light of noon-day was obscured as by an eclipse, the dung fell in spots, not unlike melting flakes of snow; and the continued buzz of wings had a tendency to lull my senses to repose."...Before sunset I reached Louisville, distance from Hardensburgh fifty-five miles. The Pigeons were still passing in undiminished numbers, and continued to do so for three days in succession.
-John James Audubon
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:30 pm to Nole Man
Those Tasmanian Tigers are really ugly, quite honestly.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:35 pm to cbree88
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Those Tasmanian Tigers are really ugly, quite honestly.
Tasmanian Tiger don't give a fuq they are extinct
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:36 pm to SallysHuman
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For those without X accounts, we can't see threads, just the direct single post... maybe some of y'all can post more xposts from the thread? Seems like a neat topic!
Here's one..
New Iberian. Circa 1963.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:41 pm to Nole Man
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New Iberian. Circa 1963.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:55 pm to SallysHuman
A pretty good, quick read on the Passenger Pigeon posted just yesterday.
Project Upland blog
'A Message from Martha', a book mentioned in this post, is a really good read. Martha was the name of the last, or Endling, Passenger Pigeon.
Project Upland blog
'A Message from Martha', a book mentioned in this post, is a really good read. Martha was the name of the last, or Endling, Passenger Pigeon.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:58 pm to LegendInMyMind
Thanks, Legend! 
Posted on 6/28/25 at 4:07 pm to LegendInMyMind
17. The passenger pigeon
This is a photo of a live female in 1898, kept in the aviary of C. O. Whitman. Endemic to North America, it was declared extinct in 1914.
This is a photo of a live female in 1898, kept in the aviary of C. O. Whitman. Endemic to North America, it was declared extinct in 1914.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 4:16 pm to LegendInMyMind
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There isn't an American alive capable of adequately comprehending what the Passenger Pigeon actually was on the North American landscape.
I have an original print of Audubon's passenger pigeons. Makes me sick that I'll never see something like that. Our ancestors were pretty retarded.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 5:44 pm to Loup
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Our ancestors were pretty retarded.
We have dumbasses today who shoot whooping cranes and bald eagles just because they’re something to shoot at.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 6:12 pm to Stexas
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We have dumbasses today who shoot whooping cranes and bald eagles just because they’re something to shoot at.
Plenty of us are still retarded but its getting better
Posted on 6/28/25 at 6:20 pm to Loup
This and I feel the same way about never seeing American Chestnut trees through the Appalachians again. Grandfather told me stories of the huge trees and nut piles and deer and turkeys just pigging out.
This post was edited on 6/28/25 at 6:21 pm
Posted on 6/28/25 at 6:45 pm to LegendInMyMind
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There isn't an American alive capable of adequately comprehending what the Passenger Pigeon actually was on the North American landscape.
It’s hard for me to fathom how it’s possible to overhunt a bird species to extinction in such a short period of time when there were 5 billion of them.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:06 pm to MillerLiteTime
The old days wiped out damn near everything. The old timers in my family use to tell stories about there being nothing but small game for dinner as everything had been wiped out. They ate every type of small game except opossum.
Back then most people ate game daily which wiped them out with the quickness. If end times hit today and the stores closed the big game would be gone in no time flat.
Back then most people ate game daily which wiped them out with the quickness. If end times hit today and the stores closed the big game would be gone in no time flat.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:47 pm to Nole Man
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On Sundays Christian businessmen dress up and take their families to church, whereas unbelieving scientists are apt to put on their worst clothes and go bird-watching. As one of my behaviorist friends put it, “my cathedral is the blue sky and my pilgrimage is for the ivory-billed woodpecker,” the fabulous and lordly bird that some say still inhabits the fastness of the swamp.
-Dr. Tom More
From Love In The Ruins by Walker Percy
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