>Humans hunted Stellar's Sea Cow to extinction in less than three decades!There were perhaps only 2,000 of them left on earth by the time humans encountered them, and they had likely been on the way out for centuries.>Well, but humans hunting sea otters spoiled the kelp forests, which was their food source!They couldn't eat anything but kelp, and because they couldn't dive, they could only eat it if it was within reach of their tiny heads. Kelp being more than a couple feet away would have starved them.>They were gentle giants!They were literally inbred retards. Their genetic diversity was painfully low.These fat fucks would have gone extinct to a light breeze. I refuse to feel guilty when ecologists use them as an example of humanity harming nature.
I guess the only animals that deserve to live are rats and mosquitoes then
>>5072802And roaches
>>5072792to evolve to such a specific niche would have taken them millions of years. Meaning for millions of years they were just fine.>when ecologists use them as an example of humanity harming natureyeah this never happened. You don't talk to ecologists, and ecologists don't cite nearly extinct island fauna from the victorian era unless it's a fucking dodo
>>5072792>I refuse to feel guilty when ecologists use them as an example of humanity harming natureDon’t worry, there’s plenty of species going extinct now to use instead
were they yummy...
>>5072802Just rats, crows, carp, cane toads, and pythons.
>>5072870if their numbers were low before humans found them, they werent doing fine
>>5072792cope
you've never swam with a manatee, if you had you'd feel differently, they're so fucking cool.
>>5073171>This dude thinks species last forever
>>5072792The extinction of stellar sea cows is unironically the main reason for global warming.
>>5074621explain
>>5073171>>5072792Retard, plenty of animals can do just fine with low population numbers, such as the Channel Islands fox, which doesn't even suffer from inbreeding depression. There's even evidence that the vaquita can be saved despite its low population numbers, for similar reasons. They just identified a healthy vaquita calf born this year.
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>>5072792They were distributed across the northern pacific from Japan to California during the last ice age and went extinct from all those areas around the same time as humans arrived. The Commander Islands were the last place in their original range that humans arrived. These things were just incompatible with mankind.
>>5072870>claims ecologists don't guilt people out with sea cowsI'm guessing you missed the museum nerd and and biologist guy here >>5073174>>5074633>a healthy vaquita calf, implying the rest are in shit shape>"don't worry guys, this one fragile infant will save the dwindling population!"
>>5074633>>5075666lol if anything, humanity's lack of giving a fuck clearly did them in. Pretty typical stuff. By the time real efforts are put forward to try and save something, it's already too late because people couldn't be bothered.
>>5075703>humanity’sChinaHow is the rest of the world supposed to stop china without shitting on national sovereignty and starting wars over dolphins?
how did sharks and orcas not body these things?
