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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Following on from the ..things you don`t see anymore..
The Western Black Rhino was declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature..few days ago..
Yep...tatty bye...its gone..no more..
They say the Northern White Rhino of Central Africa is possibly extinct in the wild..
The Javan Rhino is prolly on its last legs..
The Southern White Rhino is holding on, due to ernomous effort by conservation groups..
Ah well, theres always Jungle Book fer the kids...tigers..rhino`s etc..
The world keeps changing eh !!..
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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stephen fry did a series on animals like this.... "last chance to see"... where they went looking for some of the rarest animals on earth.. and i am sure the southern white rhino was one....
fantastic series if you can find it on DVD |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Is it something like 90% of all creatures that evre existed extinct?"
Ermmm...dunno Diamonds...
There was an extinction event way back in earths history, that an estimated 90% of all known life became extinct..mabye that...
But it could be a fact of something else I guess...along the lines of All known life.. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"stephen fry did a series on animals like this.... "last chance to see"... where they went looking for some of the rarest animals on earth.. and i am sure the southern white rhino was one....
fantastic series if you can find it on DVD"
I remember something about that..didn`t see it tho..
Hopefully with my move and a chance to get more set up..I`ll get to see it...
The latest offering by Attenborough..is just spellbinding...
The cinematography is unsurpassed..
Its a sad day...fer me..
Wildlife films..with rhino`s bumping the landrover etc..be archive film won`t it... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"[Removed by poster at 11/11/11 15:06:19]"
I can`t post other than quoting peeps Saucy !?
Prolly the most shocking extinction fer me was the Passenger Pigeon..
It was second only to locusts as the worlds biggest animal that flocked..
Estimates on numbers average 5 BILLION birds...flocks would take a day to pass over...
It was wiped out in a mad 100 years by European settlers in America...
The last one died in a zoo.. |
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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago
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"[Removed by poster at 11/11/11 15:06:19]
I can`t post other than quoting peeps Saucy !?
Prolly the most shocking extinction fer me was the Passenger Pigeon..
It was second only to locusts as the worlds biggest animal that flocked..
Estimates on numbers average 5 BILLION birds...flocks would take a day to pass over...
It was wiped out in a mad 100 years by European settlers in America...
The last one died in a zoo.."
do i see that accusing finger,point once more at us.
a virus that has no bounds. 
ps thanks daveshaz,that was my most significant post. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"[Removed by poster at 11/11/11 15:06:19]
I can`t post other than quoting peeps Saucy !?
Prolly the most shocking extinction fer me was the Passenger Pigeon..
It was second only to locusts as the worlds biggest animal that flocked..
Estimates on numbers average 5 BILLION birds...flocks would take a day to pass over...
It was wiped out in a mad 100 years by European settlers in America...
The last one died in a zoo..
do i see that accusing finger,point once more at us.
a virus that has no bounds.
ps thanks daveshaz,that was my most significant post."
22,000 miles an asteroid passed t`other day...smile !!!
Saucy ..it was like reading the " cloud of unknowing "  |
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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago
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"[Removed by poster at 11/11/11 15:06:19]
I can`t post other than quoting peeps Saucy !?
Prolly the most shocking extinction fer me was the Passenger Pigeon..
It was second only to locusts as the worlds biggest animal that flocked..
Estimates on numbers average 5 BILLION birds...flocks would take a day to pass over...
It was wiped out in a mad 100 years by European settlers in America...
The last one died in a zoo..
do i see that accusing finger,point once more at us.
a virus that has no bounds.
ps thanks daveshaz,that was my most significant post.
22,000 miles an asteroid passed t`other day...smile !!!
Saucy ..it was like reading the " cloud of unknowing " "
only shorter.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What about the Spearmint Rhino? 
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Lol
There have been around 5 great extinction events when something rapidly changed and many species and groups of animals were unable to adapt quickly enough and so have disappeared. most extinctions, though happen naturally as species change to fit the patterns of change in the environment.
99.9% of life forms that have ever existed have gone into the black night, but that's over 400 or so million years.
We (humans) have been the cause of the extinctions of almost all large mammals across the world. The last 100 years have seen a massive decline in the variation of the natural environment and we have already lost huge numbers of animals.
Sorry to harp on but am a little d*unk and think it's such a shame that we will never see these animals again just because we want the newest mobile phone or just one more beef burger...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well, this is the problem.
I am am a 'greenie', not cos I like culdy things (rhinos are mean tempered nasty buggers) but because the 'mega fauna' represent 65 milion years of evolutionary story.
How many beefburgers is an elephant worth? I say this as huge area of savanah in the elephants normal environment is being planted with soya to feed cows in feedlots for satisfy the demand for the (largely unhealthy) appetites of the developed and rapidly developing world. Bad for cows, bad for us and bad for the animals which are beig robbed of places to live.
The only people who really benefit from the destruction of the natural environment are those who are already rich. This however leads to another thread which more suits my political blog than this one..... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Well, this is the problem.
I am am a 'greenie', not cos I like culdy things (rhinos are mean tempered nasty buggers) but because the 'mega fauna' represent 65 milion years of evolutionary story.
How many beefburgers is an elephant worth? I say this as huge area of savanah in the elephants normal environment is being planted with soya to feed cows in feedlots for satisfy the demand for the (largely unhealthy) appetites of the developed and rapidly developing world. Bad for cows, bad for us and bad for the animals which are beig robbed of places to live.
The only people who really benefit from the destruction of the natural environment are those who are already rich. This however leads to another thread which more suits my political blog than this one....."
Oh, George...
We do love a good dust up , on here..
Political comment, adds balance to the less serious threads..
Say what yer mean.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Well, this is the problem.
I am am a 'greenie', not cos I like culdy things (rhinos are mean tempered nasty buggers) but because the 'mega fauna' represent 65 milion years of evolutionary story.
How many beefburgers is an elephant worth? I say this as huge area of savanah in the elephants normal environment is being planted with soya to feed cows in feedlots for satisfy the demand for the (largely unhealthy) appetites of the developed and rapidly developing world. Bad for cows, bad for us and bad for the animals which are beig robbed of places to live.
The only people who really benefit from the destruction of the natural environment are those who are already rich. This however leads to another thread which more suits my political blog than this one.....
Oh, George...
We do love a good dust up , on here..
Political comment, adds balance to the less serious threads..
Say what yer mean.."
Ohhhh Ggod, how d*unk? Something about Jim Bean....... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Well, this is the problem.
I am am a 'greenie', not cos I like culdy things (rhinos are mean tempered nasty buggers) but because the 'mega fauna' represent 65 milion years of evolutionary story.
How many beefburgers is an elephant worth? I say this as huge area of savanah in the elephants normal environment is being planted with soya to feed cows in feedlots for satisfy the demand for the (largely unhealthy) appetites of the developed and rapidly developing world. Bad for cows, bad for us and bad for the animals which are beig robbed of places to live.
The only people who really benefit from the destruction of the natural environment are those who are already rich. This however leads to another thread which more suits my political blog than this one.....
Oh, George...
We do love a good dust up , on here..
Political comment, adds balance to the less serious threads..
Say what yer mean..
Ohhhh Ggod, how d*unk? Something about Jim Bean......."
hahaha ...good fer you...
Not half bad fer being d*unk George lol.. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"there arent any Rhino's in the Jungle book "
hahaha...oh !!! ..
Pick bleeding holes..haha..
I can`t remember...I thnking of something else then...rhino`s playing footie..?
I stand corrected...
Thanks lol.. |
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"there arent any Rhino's in the Jungle book
hahaha...oh !!! ..
Pick bleeding holes..haha..
I can`t remember...I thnking of something else then...rhino`s playing footie..?
I stand corrected...
Thanks lol.. "
you are thinking of bed knobs and broomsticks
i do think its sad to hear about animals becoming extinc, especially if it is through human activity |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Well, this is the problem.
I am am a 'greenie', not cos I like culdy things (rhinos are mean tempered nasty buggers) but because the 'mega fauna' represent 65 milion years of evolutionary story.
How many beefburgers is an elephant worth? I say this as huge area of savanah in the elephants normal environment is being planted with soya to feed cows in feedlots for satisfy the demand for the (largely unhealthy) appetites of the developed and rapidly developing world. Bad for cows, bad for us and bad for the animals which are beig robbed of places to live.
The only people who really benefit from the destruction of the natural environment are those who are already rich. This however leads to another thread which more suits my political blog than this one.....
Oh, George...
We do love a good dust up , on here..
Political comment, adds balance to the less serious threads..
Say what yer mean..
Ohhhh Ggod, how d*unk? Something about Jim Bean.......
hahaha ...good fer you...
Not half bad fer being d*unk George lol.."
Always eloquent, it just takes alooooot longer for me to post..... |
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