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You don’t save a species by relocating it outside its natural environment and thereby fucking up an entirely new ecosystem.
Extinct Animals Thread
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You don’t save a species by relocating it outside its natural environment and thereby fucking up an entirely new ecosystem.
Interesting, that. Do you think it was competition with humans or just competition with other species that caused them to die out? If it's the former, it seems like a lot of the Austronesian native people were responsible for the extinction of many native animals (the mainland thylacine and the moa (and Haast's eagle, consequently) as examples).
Sounds Eurocentric or racist, but in many ways I suppose it's true.
Not the panda
! Dear God man, what have you done? You've killed off the most useless creature on earth!In all seriousness, giant pandas actually lack the drive to breed. Would kinda serve them right
. But they're still one of my favourite animals.
Cook
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Not something I’ve looked into that much.
I think the general consensus is a combination of factors; dingos breed quicker and are a better predator, Aboriginal fire hunting changes the environment and the mainland was already drying out.
One of Douglas Adams’s novels has someone with a time machine saving the Coelacanth, which results in the extinction of the Dodo.
The coelacanth is still alive today though
Or is this one of those things where the dodo is alive in his timeline?
Cook
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The coelacanth is still alive today though
Or is this one of those things where the dodo is alive in his timeline?
The Coelacanth is only alive because he went back in time and changed events; the consequence was that the Dodo went extinct.
I think there was something about the Lock Ness Monster in there too, can’t remember, but I did like the effect.
Not the panda
In all seriousness, giant pandas actually lack the drive to breed. Would kinda serve them right
That's right, I killed the Panda! It has to do with an isolated Communist China trying to build itself out in a world where the Soviet Union doesn't exist to aid them. Panda's habitat got wiped out.
Wait what? So you're saying that in his timeline, the only reason the coelacanth exists is because he went back in time and saved it, but as a consequence, the OTL extinction of the dodo happened? How strange.
As an on topic sidenote, saving the dodo is borderline ASB. Considering the Dutch didn't have much else to eat in Mauritious.
But what will the WWF use as their mascot?! Pandas are often sighted in Northern India, Nepal and Bhutan too though. Probably not enough to sustain any kind of population, but hey, there's that!!!
That's impossible.
Java has the population density of Bangladesh, there is no room for tigers except in captivity.
You say that as though every inch of Java has a person on it...
It's not a tin of sardines.
John Fredrick Parker
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For a Lincoln Lives TL, I could easily see the American bison going extinct, though I'd like to offset it somewhat by saving the Carribean Monk Seal. Any ideas?
I don't know much about either, I'm afraid. Did Lincoln play a role in the wiping out of the bison on the Great Plains?
Edit: Well the seal went extinct due to opportunism. Anyone, sailors, whalers, museum directors and zoologists, killed them as soon as they saw them. It's hard to get rid of that kind of desperation for seal-culling. Obviously they all had different motives (mostly money and science), but these motives don't really go away. But it wasn't formally declared extinct until 1996, but the last confirmed sighting was 1952.
Edit2: If you can prevent the slaughter in the Triangle Keys in 1915 (over 200 died) you might give them a fighting chance.