ENDLINGS (Part 2) - The Last One Before Extinction 

16:59 my goodness, the fact that they would put the entire bird on their hats just because they looked pretty is absolutely mind blowing!

It’s so tragic how the great auks were treated, this should tell us about the tragedies of human induced extinction. The lengths people will go to for their own benefits are insane, the poor animals were simply trying to exist.

The Carolina parakeet - so beautiful. Their Denise is so sad. 😭

Slight correction: while many forests were indeed cut down during the early 20th century and 19th, passenger pigeons were keystone engineers that some sources say were "like prairie fire", likely creating meadows and keeping prairies and savannahs clear of shrubs and trees. Our grasslands in the southeast are less than 1% of what they used to be and a large proportion of that "dense untouched forest" on the map was open savannah and grassland.

God the Great Auk story actually made me tear up. We owe it to nature to bring them back.

I'll never not be saddened by the footage of Benjamin, the last known Thylacine. The fact that we humans wrongfully killed off such an impressive apex predator is one of Australia's greatest moments of national shame.

A Near endling story that did happen ,was the New Zealand ,Chatham Island's Black Robin .They had got down to Five birds by the 1980's ,which there was only one female left called Old Blue .(she was considered past breeding age standards ) ,she and one male called Old Yellow were the last breeding pair left ,Thankfully using foster birds to encourage more eggs laying , today the population is now around 300 birds all descended from old blue ,who shouldn't have being able to breed or lived beyond what was 'considered' a Black robin natural life span ,saving her species' . 😊

That's really unfortunate how cruel humans were to The Great Auk.

I like that you talk about plants too. More often than not we ignore our strange neighbors and it's a shame.

When I went to Norway last week I was able to see some taxidermied great auks for the first time. Just say I was excited would be a severe understatement

There was a lot more that could have been said about the American carrier Pigeon too: just how badly people ignored the laws and how little people cared even as the species went extinct. The first laws that tried to be passed were thrown out by lawmakers who laughed at them as "the birds are far from trouble, they are remarkly, and thankfully, very fertive". Then as the nesting grounds were dissapearing and laws stated they could not be hunted, people still went out of their way to find and hunt the birds and get them at their nesting grounds. Authorities simply refused to do anything as they didn't believe there was any real harm, and some even joined in. The last nesting ground was destroyed by a set of trappers who thought they could make a decent amount of money off the "abundant birds". (remember, at these times it had been a decade since a "great migration" of them had occured, and longer still since people saw them in any sizable numbers). Finally, when the birds were few in numbers and only small groups of 10 or 15 could be found at a time, people were still hunting them like crazy, with many families rushing to get their guns once they saw the birds enter their forest. The last ones shot in the wild were shot by farmers, one a young boy who shot it once he figured out what it was because he thought it would sell well to a museum, and another by just a hunter who wanted to try the taste (it is disputed though by Teddy Roosavelt of all people who claimed to have spotted a flock of 14 few years later, verifiable by others in the area he claimed, which was probably the last nesting spot, but it didn't seem they survived well). And to think, the endlings experience of humans was throwing sand at it.

It is so depressing to see how humans have ruined so many environments. Hopefully, they can bring them back and fix their mistakes.

I honestly find extinct species absolutely fascinating, from before the dinosaurs to all the way to today. This series is so interesting! Please keep up the good work!

Nice to see the tree not go extinct and be saved from the fate of the Auks

We don't deserve this planet.. Trowing sand at that poor soul, just to get it to move.. What a bunch of tragic and heartbreaking stories..

This description of how great auks were treated made my day dramatically worse… 😰

The fate of the great auks makes me sick man... It´s really a shame that humanity hasn´t learned ANYTHING of it.

Man I hope they bring the Thylacine back

What makes Martha and Incas even more special is that their passing almost looked like it was signalling the beginning and and of ww1

the way ppl watched the great auk go extinct, a process which they seemed pretty aware of considering they were all excited about it getting more rare and valuable, and have absolutely 0 concerns about the passenger pigeon for so long is mind boggling to me… ik there’s a lot of nuance to it all but i’m starting to get less and less empathetic towards the idea that people in the past were clueless about what they were doing and had different ethics and all that. makes me also think of how american colonizers almost wiped out the buffalo, partially on purpose as a tactic against native americans who relied heavily on them for food and clothes. i think they knew a lot more about how ecology works than some people assume. that is my animal rant for the day lol

20:06 Since I'm from Cincinnati, I consider this significant.

However as well made as your videos are. The endings series really shakes me. Sooo sad. Would be nice to watch a series about animal successes and conservation successes.

It very happy news this plant is no longer endling! 🌳🌳🌳😍😍😍😍💗💗💗💗💗💗 I was aware of its existence but I didn't know they managed to reproduce it!

They seriously killed that bird because they thought "it's a witch" 💀 it's embarrassing to be a part of this species sometimes

As a person who doesn't use the metric system I appreciate the converted measurements that are always included 😅❤

Another brilliant video. Thanks, John.

George and Martha. Sweet little endling 🕊️

I remember reading articles about this supposed real endling of the Thylacine and some people are skeptic about this

Thank you, I appreciate your work even when it leaves me feeling like I do right now 😢

6:09 The auk's story always breaks my heart 😢💔

Interesting video! Also, I want to say that you are a very good narrator.

The great auk probably hold on for a few years, somewhere we never got to know

Omg still can’t believe Tiny Tiger is extinct. I think it’s episode on the miniseries Extinct showed how bad it really was with lots of dismissal because they were marsupials.

hey now the cincinnati zoo is perfectly average sized! nowadays they are still doing great work with captive breeding programs despite some sad hiccups along the way. i grew up hearing the story about these birds from zookeepers and always enjoy going and sitting in the pagoda and enjoying the quiet.

Thank you for the video, I learn so much from them...

I just don’t understand how people can be so callous. It makes me sick 😢

Amazing and very educational. Thank you for your hard work.

There are two natural stories that regulary bring tears to my eyes whenever I remember them The story of Hachiko and the tragedy of the thylacine.

RIP to these beautiful creatures

I humbly and earnestly volunteer as the endling for our species

I have personal beef with Cincinnati Zoo, last time I went there, I screamed at a bunch of people using flash photography at a very obviously disgruntled leopard. Although there were signs everywhere, saying "No flash photography" people ignored the sign and there were no zookeepers in sight. It was one of the busiest times, during the festival of lights, one of the most busy days of the season, 2017. I don't regret my actions lol but I still often think about it. They neglect their enclosures, and that's exactly how a sharp shooter who did it only for clay pigeons and sport, young, was tasked with shooting and killing Harambe. That kid worked at the zoo because of his love for animals. There's NO REASON any of that should have happened. Harambe was a local travesty to many, and the lack of empathy when people still joke about it today- IF YOU LACK EMPATHY, I WILL LACK IT TOWARDS YOU. 🔨

i love sad and interesting facts

Captivating series 😍

This video made me cry. ☹️

Thylacine mentioned let's fuckign go 👑🔥

please do a video of animals that gotten extinct bacause of WW1 and WW2

its so sad seeing a species go extinct :( knowing sometimes we are the cause of it

I believe I saw a small flock of Carolina Parakeets in 2005. I went to a butcher farm in late October, I was 10, and I went to go play in the garden and a flock of green bird with yellow and red flew out of the plants. I believe it's the Carolina Parakeets because it would have been too cold for any non-native parrots to survive

Extinction is sad, like how the “true” penguin is extinct and we are left with “false” penguins of the southern hemisphere

Great video

Great Video!

Born, raised, still living in Cincinnati. I knew about Martha, but I had no idea about the last Carolina parakeet. All of these stories are heartbreaking. I hold out hope for the thylacine, but humans are a lost cause.

How utterly sickening!!!!!!! I really hope that Passenger pigeon might go through de-extinction. Presumably there are enough specimens to make it viable. Maybe Carolina parakeet might also be possible. I'd love to see the Great Auk return but ensuring its safety might be tricky. I'm a birder and these are all birds I feel genuinely cheated to have never seen. I'd love to see the Auk return the most but it seems the least likely. Tragic examples of our horrific impact. Thankyou.

Madhuca tree got a good ending, I hope this will happens more

16:19 I once saw a comment online made by american about how they never once saw a parakeet in nature, being extremely surprised when presented with a picture of amazonian parrots and parakeets.

awesome video .... makes me so sad though, its like this helplessness , and the though that something that took millions of years to evolve, was just killed off causally by humans !

Finding out that the last thylacine, an animal i loved as a kid, died 60 years to the day, before i was born sure is something. Honestly not sure how to feel about that...

Wood's cycad, is a rare cycad in the genus Encephalartos, and is endemic to the oNgoye Forest of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is one of the rarest plants in the world, being extinct in the wild with all specimens being clones of the type.

They thought the bird was a witch 😂 man I’m glad I’m in this era of human civilization

Why did the butchering of the Great Auk need to be so cruel? Conventional hunting practices and etiquette surely existed at this time…

How about Schomburgk's Deer. Last male living in the temple was killed by drunken local guy in 1938.

You should have said that aboriginies introduced dingos to continental Australia and new guineans the singing dog to New Guinea, from previously domestic dogs. These competed with Thylacines and significantly contributing to their extinction.

Shameful behavior on the Europeans part for what happened to the Great Auks

I support cloning extinct animals but I think it’s more important to save endangered species

Wow as soon as I saw the lineup I said "Oh cool, Benjamin is in this one" as I'm very familiar with his story. I was in for a pleasant surprise as this is the first time I've heard this alternate recounting‼️ I'd love to read about the new findings myself! Could you provide the source material for this⁉️

I’m so confused about the last thylacine’s sex. I remember hearing a while ago that researchers were able to spot its family jewels in the video.

So so sorry we couldn't protect the great auk 😢- Icelandic person

14:09 -14 38 um i already know that the cincinnati zoo once had passenger pigeons, but what are the names of the two zoos in both wisconsin and illinois that once had captive passenger pigeons.

What does status and wealth mean if it causes suffering for others living beings?

That’s related to the great auk

There is still confusion regarding wheter last Thylacine was malr or female. I tried to link article, but it was deleted. Anyway, if this skin truly belong to last female, the we don't have her footages - last filmed Thylacine was male, this is certain.

What about the razorbills

knowing how many species are now gone forever thanks to cattle are making me hate farmers a bit

Hopefully, we'll be able to obtain DNA from existing specimens of the extinct animals in this video and clone them. If not, may these species all rest in peace. As for the Great Auk, they did an expedition to try and find some in the TV show "Extinct or Alive." However, they never found any and concluded that the Great Auk was extinct.

I wonder who the endling human would be?

Why did the carolina parakeet keep killing its own eggs? I understand its common in the wild but why did it keep rejecting every single one?

Children should be forced to watch this material and bare witness to the heartless depravity of those that came before us.

huh, so Benjamin was actually a Benjawomin?

So was the thylacine filmed in 1933 in Hobart’s Zoo the same one that died in 1936?

Man I freaking dislike farmers as they have no respect for wild species. They wiped out soo many species

When I played red dead 2 I caused the extinctions of carolina parakeets

Man everytime I watch these videos it reminds me how much people suck

Tell the story of the magenta petrel

thylacine, there's a report of 1 being killed by a fisherman in 1952 who bit his leg

#wildlifename

These episodes are a bit depressing :(

When you realize that all penguins are extinct 😢

Videos like this showcase how awful humans can be.

This series makes me always angry 😡 So sad what humans did to those animals 🥲

I think whenever we as humans have an endling... The world will be better off

Humans really are the worst. Things aren't getting any better, either.

I hate people 😭

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