Monday, November 22, 2010
megafauna extinctions:
a few of the many animals now extinct as a result of competition with people
mammoth, mastadon, moa(10 kinds) haast's eagle lemurs (17 kinds) the giant fossa (a catlike lemur-eating relative of the fossa) the malagassy aardvark 3000 kinds of pacific birds including the Moa-nalos, giant grazing ducks from Hawaii, the dodo.
Ten species or subspecies of birds have disappeared from the Hawaiian islands since the 1980s. These include the Kaua'i O'o, Nu kupu'u, 'Akialoa, Kama'o, Po'ouli, and others.
Mekosuchine crocodiles, the Malagasy Hippopotamus, some giant turtles, faukland fox, stellar's sea cow, tasmanian tiger, quagga, great auk, passenger pigeon,giant rice rat, eastern elk, carolina parakeet, irish elk, cave bear, cave lion, florida giant beaver, california tapir, cuban ground sloth, Giant hutia, giant polar bear, dire wolf, giant short-faced bear, giant armadillo, jefferson's ground sloth, mountain deer, north american capybara,
stilt-leg llama, stag moose, yukon wild horse (instead of domesticating the horse, natives americans ate them to extinction), the sea mink, various rats and bats, puerto rican agouti, carribean monk seal, colorado hog-nosed skunk, illinois cave amphipod, 2 kinds of litopterns, stegomastadon, a number of ground sloths, Indefatigable Galapagos Mouse, darwin's rice rat, toxodon, atlas bear (1844) north african elephant (300), cretan dwarf hippo, dwarf elephants, cave hyena, several island dwarf hippopotamooses, cave goat, caspian tiger, sardinian lynx, giant unicorn rhino, honshu wolf (1905),
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