Rare footage of extinct animals
I dare you to watch this and not get the feels. Rare and moving footage of six extinct animals taken before they were wiped out. It also features an eye watering list of every animal and plant that has gone extinct since 1900.
1. Heath Hen - Extinct 1932
Heath hens in courtship rituals at the island of Martha's Vineyard in 1926 or 1927. This is the only known surviving footage of the heath hen. The film was made seven years before the bird went extinct due to mass hunting.
2. Thylacine - Extinct 1936
The thylacine was the largest known carnivorous marsupial, also known as the Tasmanian tiger or the Tasmanian wolf. It was native to Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea. It became extinct due to hunting, disease, dogs and habitat loss.
3. Laysan Crake - Extinct 1944
The Laysan crake was a flightless bird from the Hawaiian Islands. It was wiped out in 1944 by habitat loss and war.
4. Golden Toad - Extinct 1989
The golden toad was last sighted in 1989 in Costa Rica, and is now believed to be extinct. This toad displays extreme sexual dimorphism - large size and appearance differences between the sexes. It died out due to habitat loss and a fungus disease.
5. Baiji Dolphin - Extinct 2006
The Baiji Dolphin's extinction is somewhat in dispute. A film taken in 2007 was tentatively verified as showing the Baiji Dolphin, however, it has not been seen since and has been declared functionally extinct. It vanished due to overfishing.
6. Western Black Rhino - Extinct 2011
The Western Black Rhino was found mostly in Cameroon, Africa, and was believed to be genetically different to other subspecies. During the 1900s it was the most common species of rhino. It was wiped out do to poaching.
Animals/plants Extinct since 1900
1901 - Pig-footed bandicoot
1902 - Rocky Mountain locust
1905 - Honshu wolf
1909 - Tarpan
1910 - Usambara annone (tree)
1911 - Newfoundland wolf
1914 - Passenger pigeon
1918 - Carolina parakeet
1924 - California grizzly bear
1925 - Kenai Peninsula wolf
1930 - Darwin's rice rat
1932 - Heath hen
1933 - Cry pansy (plant)
1934 - Indefatigable Galapagos mouse
1935 - Desert rat-kangaroo
1935 - Mogollon mountain wolf, Southern Rocky Mountains wolf
1936 - Thylacine
1937 - Bali tiger
1938 - Radula visiniaca (a species of liverwort)
1939 - Toolache wallaby
1940 - Cascade mountain wolf
1942 - Texas wolf
1942 - Barbary lion
1952 - Caribbean monk seal
1952 - Bernard's wolf
1956 - Crescent nail-tail wallaby
1962 - Red-bellied gracile opossum
1965 - Turgid-blossom pearly mussel
1966 - Arabian ostrich
1969 - Mexican grizzly bear
1970 - Caspian tiger
1972 - Mason River myrtle (plant)
1974 - Japanese sea lion
1979 - Javan tiger
1981 - Green-blossom pearlymussel
1985 - Platypus frog
1989 - Golden toad, Atitlán grebe
1990 - Dusky seaside sparrow
1994 - Saint Croix racer, Levuana moth
1997 - Hainan ormosia (a species of legume)
2000 - Pyrenean ibex
2006 - Baiji dolphin
2008 - Liverpool pigeon
2010 - Alaotra grebe
2011 - Eastern cougar
2011 - Western black rhinoceros
2012 - Japanese river otter, Pinta Island tortoise
2013 - Cape Verde giant skink, Formosan clouded leopard, Scioto madtom
2014 - Acalypha wilderi (a species of spurge), Bermuda saw-whet owl
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