Once Abundant, Now Extinct - How 4 Once Common Species Disappeared 

Hearing the story of the Passenger Pigeon is as tragic as it is scary. To think that animals we commonly see and take for granted could be wiped out in such a relatively short time is harrowing.

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I never comprehended the true scale of 5 billion birds dying. I heard about the chestnuts dying but didnt realize the bird dying played parts in it, in addition to almost all wildlife across the nation given just how important they were

The loss of all of these species is a monumental tragedy. I read about the fate of the passenger pigeon 50 years ago and it's haunted me ever since. The thought of Martha, alone in her aviary, the last of her species, should be a warning to us all yet humanity recklessly continues to hasten the destruction of innumerable species, even those that haven't even been discovered.

The passenger pigeon was the buffalo of the sky.

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Please do a video on animals that have no formal conservation program but need them, or a video on 10 Lesser known animal conservation efforts (aka greater Prarie restoration project).

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If you make the cryptozoology video I’ll watch it. Queued your other videos already. Excellent production value and research-well done. You’ll go far.

Imagine there are many species existed in such a small area in many parts of the world that has gone extinct and leave no trace of it , and we cant documented it 😢

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We are experiencing a catastrophic loss of reptile and amphibian diversity in the state of florida. Common species like the Florida Kingsnake and Indigo Snake have almost completely disappeared from the wild. Many such cases

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Crazy how devastating they can be to animals

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The American Chestnut tree decline to near extinction was due to a blight brought to the US on the Japanese Chestnut tree. That would make a great video.

Great video.I would love it if the all these animals eould still be in big numbers.

I kinda don't feel too bad about the locus except for the animals that ate them

The Great Auk is another example.

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I would love to see you talk about cryptozoology. Especially about sightings of extinct creatures like dinosaurs or the Japanese wolf and sightings that might have been just a living animal (Referencing to venezuela's spider monkey regarding the François de Loys discovery)

This is why we can't have nice things

'Daww this video reminds me of visiting natural history and wildlife museums as a kid.. Thanks for this, bro. It's really sad how bad we've messed up the planet up to this point. The world's had to say goodbye to so many beautiful species, and that bums me out. I hope we can do better by earth someday- and other planets too, if we ever reach them. Appreciate your work, homie. Keep going. This touched my heart. ❤

The passenger pigeon no doubt took a hit in terms of hunting during the civil war to provide protein to the immense armies that needed food. However, one thing that is incorrect in this video is that the American Chestnut took a hit not from the lack of pigeons but the Chinese Chestnut blight from trees that were imported here. The blight completely destroyed the trees here and there is a correlation of the trees going almost extinct and the Passenger Pigeon at the same time period. There was plenty of habitat available in the Smokey Mountains for the birds but their food source was gone from here and North America. At one time the American Chestnut tree accounted for every one in four trees in our hardwood forest. Another Chinese virus imported like some others I know. If they would have had their food source they would still be here today just like the ducks and geese that are here that were once commercially hunted as well by the millions.

Hopefully the passenger pidgeons become de extinct in the next 10 years since theres a large de extinction project similar to tasmanian tiger

I swear i saw something about rediscovering the Golden frog.

The passenger pigeon thing makes me mad, but I am not as angry as I used to be. I read an article that explained that the billions-large flocks would probably not have been sustainable. Yes, humans brought about their demise, but even if we jadm't messed with them so much, the idea of billions being around forever wasn't likely. They were going through a "boom period" during that time, and probably experienced a population crash right when humans were aggresively hunting them. Even if they had been left alone, the flock sizes would lkely have dipped as low as 300,000 or less -- still a lot of birds, but not THAT many, comparitively. Many creatures go through booms and busts, but this situation probably wasn't understood in that day. (Would YOU have realized it or believed it when it took 3 days for the flock to pass overhead?) Of all the species up for de-extinction, I think passenger pigeons are among the most important. They helped keep the forests healthy, and more than a century later, we're seeing the problems now due to their absence.

Please do one on the Carolina parakeet

I wonder what passenger pigeon tasted like? That's the real tragedy of animals going extinct

I say you should give a cryptozoology video a try. Have any animals in mind? Or maybe you want to do the history on the subject?

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8:48 And shockingly, this was originated in Korea.😊

Norhern Curlew.. American IBIS (?!?)

I seems surreal that we don't really know what caused some of these spieces to go extinct.

What kind of cryptozoology? Thylacine? Yes. Woolly mammoth? oh yeah. Bigfoot, Nessie, chupi, No.

I think the like doesnt do anything with the algorithm

Why did you say that

Eskimo is considered derogatory? I thought there actually was a group called Eskimo, but it was being applied to others, like Inuits

Wonder if Europeans over hunting of passengers pigeon also done to deny the native tribes an important food source like what was done to bison, pretty low thing to do.

Passenger pigeons are still around. They're just called Mourning doves.

People are like barbaric roaches.

They try to come up with all sorts of scientific reasons why the locust is gone. The real story is the swarm was ravaging some Christian settlers who prayed to Jesus to save them. The swarm flew to a glacier and they all froze to death.

Do you think you could make a video about the idea of cloning extinct animals (Passenger Pigeon, Wooly Mammoth, etc.)?

I guess we killed off everything on planet earth.... how did we kill the dinosaurs? How did we kill when we weren't here? Blaming man on everything is not working on me!

Sounds like those animals lacked the ability to adapt. Good riddance more food for stronger species