re: List of animals taken during Teddy Roosevelt's safari in 1909

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hit, we hunted Great White sharks to near extinction after Jaws came out.

We know so much more now about how to preserve and save animal species than we did in the 70's, and exponentially more than we did 100 years ago.

Again, Teddy was pretty much the only guy doing this back then, and we know a lot of what we know about these animals because of that.

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As the Rev. George Carlin says.

"Let me tell you about endangered species, all right? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It's arrogant meddling. It's what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn't anybody understand that? Interfering with nature. Over 90%, way over 90% of all the species that have ever lived on this planet, ever lived, are gone. They're extinct. We didn't kill them all. They just disappeared. That's what nature does.