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Extinct Animals

This document provides 10 pictures and facts about extinct animal species. It begins with a definition of extinction as a species having no living individuals left anywhere. Animal extinctions are often caused by natural factors like climate change, but modern extinctions are mainly due to human activities such as habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, overhunting, and climate change. Each picture then gives brief information on the cause of extinction for that particular species, such as hunting, habitat loss, overhunting, and changes to food sources.

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Extinct Animals

This document provides 10 pictures and facts about extinct animal species. It begins with a definition of extinction as a species having no living individuals left anywhere. Animal extinctions are often caused by natural factors like climate change, but modern extinctions are mainly due to human activities such as habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, overhunting, and climate change. Each picture then gives brief information on the cause of extinction for that particular species, such as hunting, habitat loss, overhunting, and changes to food sources.

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

10 Pictures of Extinct Animals


and facts about the cause of its
extinction
Leon Devaughn G. Tolibas
VII- Euler
Mr. oliver lagman
Extinction of a particular animal or plant species occurs when there
are no more individuals of that species alive anywhere in the world -
the species has died out.
Animal extinctions may be caused by natural occurrences such as
climatic heating or cooling or changes in sea levels. In more modern
times, however, human activity has been to blame. Habitat destruction
as farming land expands and forests are cut-down is the main cause of
modern extinctions, along with pollution, the introduction of alien
species, and over fishing or hunting. Increasingly, however, climate
change is thought to be driving extinctions.

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Baiji White Dolphin

The baiji is one of only a few dolphin


species that is known to have adapted
from the ocean to a freshwater
environment. The likely cause of the
baiji's decline is from the use of fishing
nets with hooks that snag and drown
the dolphins as bycatch. Other causes
may include habitat degradation.
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Woolly Mammoth

Precipitation was the cause of the


extinction of woolly mammoths
through the changes to plants. The
change happened so quickly that they
could not adapt and evolve to survive.

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Sabre-toothed Cat

It is believed the Sabre-tooth Cat’s


extinction may be linked to the
decline and extinction of the large
herbivores they hunted. Other
explanations include climate change
and competition with humans.

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Dodo

The bird was hunted to


extinction by sailors and their
domesticated animals, and
invasive species.

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Great Auk

Overhunting threatened the species.


Museums and collectors took an avid
interest in the great auk as its
population declined, but overhunting
and changes to the species'
environment contributed to the
species' extinction.

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Steller’s Sea Cow

was wiped out in the second half of


the 18th century due to sailors and fur
traders hunting it for the meat and
fat.

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Tasmanian Tiger

It is believed to have been


hunted to extinction – this
was encouraged by bounties –
but human encroachment
into its habitat, the
introduction of dogs and
disease could also have
contributed.
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Passenger Pigeon

Their settlement led to mass


deforestation resulting in habitat loss
and a reduction in the bird population.
By the 19th century pigeon meat was
commercialized as a cheap food for
the poor, which resulted in hunting on
a massive scale.

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Pyrenean Ibex

its population went through a


bottleneck caused by hunting,
inbreeding and other factors, which
ultimately caused its extinction.

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West African Black Rhinoceros

The Western Black Rhino was officially


declared extinct in 2011. Their extinction
was caused mainly by poachers killing
them for their horns, which are highly
prized on the black market and used in
traditional Chinese medicine.

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Leon
Devaughn
G.
Tolibas

VII- Euler

Mr. Oliver
Lagman

Thank you
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