00:00When Animals Vanish, How Human Activity Erased Creatures Forever
00:05The Dodo vanished from Mauritius after people reached the island.
00:09Across islands, forests, rivers, grasslands, and oceans,
00:13human hunting, ships, farms, and introduced animals erased entire creatures.
00:19The Dodo walked through Mauritius' forests without fear,
00:23then disappeared after sailors, hunting, pigs, rats, and habitat loss arrived.
00:27The passenger pigeon once darkened North American skies,
00:32but mass hunting and forest clearing drove the last bird to death in 1914.
00:37The Tasmanian tiger paced inside Australian and Tasmanian enclosures
00:42before hunting pressure, disease, and fear erased the striped predator.
00:47The great auk nested on North Atlantic rocks,
00:50where hunters took birds, eggs, and feathers until the flightless seabird vanished.
00:54The Carolina parakeet flashed green and yellow across American forests
00:59before orchard shooting, feather collecting, and habitat loss ended its flocks.
01:04The Quagga grazed South African plains with zebra stripes on its front half
01:09before hunting wiped out the last captive animal in 1883.
01:13The Stellar Sea Cow grazed kelp in the North Pacific,
01:17then vanished within decades after hunters targeted the slow marine giant.
01:21The Baiji dolphin swam China's Yangtze River before boat traffic.
01:25Fishing gear, pollution, and dams destroyed its river home.
01:29These lost animals share one pattern.
01:32Slow breeding, easy capture, shrinking habitat,
01:35and human pressure left no safe place.
01:39A museum skin, fossil bone, or old drawing
01:42can now be the last proof that a living creature once moved.
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