Ten extinct animals in the last 150 years | Part II
The stunning Madeiran Large White butterfly was found in the valleys of the Laurisilva forests on Portugal’s Madeira Islands. The butterfly’s closest relative, the Large White, is common across Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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Ten Extinct Animals In The Last 150 Years | Part
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Table of Contents
1. Ten Extinct Animals
1.1. 1. Large white from Madeira
1.2. 2. Po’ouli
1.3. 3. Zanzibar Leopard
2. Ten Extinct Animals
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Large white from Madeira
Madeira’s fantastic Great White Butter몭y was found in the valleys of the Laurisilva forests in
Madeira, Portugal. The butter몭y’s closest relative, the Large White, is common throughout
Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Cause of extinction: Habitat loss due to construction and pollution from agricultural
fertilizers are two leading causes of species decline. Although not o몭cially declared extinct,
the butter몭y has not been seen for decades.
1.4. 4. Golden Toad
1.5. 5. The Pyrenean Ibex
1.6. 6. Quagga
1.7. 7. The Passenger Pigeon
1.8. 8. Thylacine
1.9. 9. The Spix Macaw
1.10. 10. Northern White Rhino
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2. Po’ouli
Native to Maui, Hawaii, the Pauli, or black-faced honeycreeper, was only discovered in the
1970s. The birds inhabit the southwestern slopes of the Haleakala volcano. But the
population declined rapidly; by 1997, only three known Pauli remained.
Attempts to mate with the remaining birds failed, and the species was formally declared
extinct seven years later.
Cause of extinction: Diseases, habitat loss to predators, and the decline of its food source,
native tree snails, are considered causes of the bird’s demise.
3. Zanzibar Leopard
One of several subspecies of leopards, the Zanzibar leopard, made its home in the Zanzibar
archipelago of Tanzania. It’s unclear if this big cat is technically extinct; sometimes, there
are uncon몭rmed sightings.
Cause of extinction: The leopard became extinct due to the belief that witches kept these
animals; the local people hunted them aggressively.
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4. It didn’t help that the government was campaigning to exterminate the creatures. In the
mid-1990s, there was a short-lived conservation effort, but it was understood to be too little
too late.
Update: In 2018, Animal Planet released images of what was identi몭ed as the Zanzibar
leopard, but those claims have yet to be con몭rmed.
4. Golden Toad
The golden toad is not the only species that have disappeared in the last 40 years, but it
may also be the most brilliant.
The little toad was last seen in 1989 in the Costa Rican rainforest before being declared
extinct in 1994. Chytridiomycosis, a deadly skin disease, is believed to have decimated this
already vulnerable toad population. That science calls “limited habitat.” small population,
Cause of extinction: Pollution, global warming, and skin infection with chytrid caused the
extinction of this species.
5. 5. The Pyrenean Ibex
The Pyrenean ibex o몭cially became extinct in 2000 before being “resurrected” nearly a
decade later in 2009. Scientists cloned a Pyrenean ibex using DNA taken from preserved
epidermal samples, which survived conception and even at birth, before dying shortly after
a lung malformation.
Cause of Extinction: Extensive hunting during the 19th century.
6. 6. Quagga
The quagga was native to South Africa and became extinct at the end of the 19th century.
For a long time, the quagga was considered its species before it was discovered that it was
closely related to the plains zebra and was, in fact, a subspecies of the zebra. Chagas
looked like a cross between two animals: a zebra on the front, thanks to the distinctive
stripes, and a horse on the back.
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Scientists are trying to resurrect the quagga and have had some success through reverse
engineering by selectively breeding zebras (which carry the quagga gene).
Cause of extinction: Humans hunted the quagga to extinction.
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7. The Passenger Pigeon
Racing pigeons are estimated to have numbered in the millions and possibly billions when
the 몭rst Europeans began to settle in the Americas. MentalFloss reports that Wisconsin
was home to the largest known nesting site in the late 19th century.
Cause of extinction: Humans hunted a pigeon and ate it to extinction, with the last known
bird dying in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.
8. 8. Thylacine
The thylacine, a carnivore also known as the Tasmanian tiger and Tasmanian wolf, was a
(mainly) nocturnal group that hunted rodents and kangaroos.
Although the thylacines appeared ferocious, they were pretty shy and, according to Live
Science, “could have been captured without a 몭ght.” There have been so many reports of
thylacine sightings in the last century that this prompted an investigation into the status of
their existence.
Cause of Extinction: The dingo population is thought to have threatened thylacine with
extinction and overhunting by humans.
9. 9. The Spix Macaw
Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix’s Macaw currently exists in small numbers in
captivity, ranging from 60 to 80. The bird is also called “Little Blue Macaw” because they are
known for their vibrant blue plumage.
Cause of Extinction: The Spix’s Macaw became extinct in the wild due to habitat
destruction, illegal capture, and trade.
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10. Northern White Rhino
10. The last two surviving northern white rhinos are female since the last male died in March
2018. The 45-year-old man was under armed guard at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Sudan,
Kenya, when he died of old age and infection.
Two females can also not give birth, making the chances of introducing a new species
generation very low. Scientists are working on using harvested sex cells and in vitro
fertilization to produce a lab-grown northern white rhino.
Cause of extinction: Poaching has decimated this population, and habitat loss has helped
push the rhino to extinction.
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