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In this video, we’re looking at the endling of 6 species and subspecies of plants and animals.
1. Orange Band, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow (Ammospiza maritima nigrescens)
2. The Loneliest Plant (Hyophorbe amaricauli)
3. The Aurochs (Bos primigenius)
4. The Portuguese Ibex (Capra pyrenaica lusitanica) and Celia, the Pyrenean Ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica)
5. Toughie, Rabbs’ Fringe-limbed Tree Frog (Ecnomiohyla rabborum)
Music:
Shifting Waters
Helmut Shenker
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I pray that all animals still alive somewhere that God has them shield some safe and isolates form humanity until right souls can come to help repopulate the world .
Toughie deserved better! F
We have a tree in NZ called Three Kings Kaikōmako which is nicknamed the loneliest tree in the world as well due to there being one wild specimen on the side of a cliff.
Your vids slap !
But we should never give up hope on these species hopefully someday in the not far away future, we could be able to clone and resurrect these recently extinct modern day animals!!!
Toughie's call literally made me cry ;-; I remember reading about when he died.
Anyone else think about the Kaua'i 'o'o while listening to the frog call for a mate that would never come.
This is more of a next video issue but the Thylacine should become the mascot of this channel because you talk about it a lot.
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How did I call orange band being the endling for the first species-
Anyways, nice vid! Keep up the good work
If anyone is interested in more information, there is a really good book about the Dusky Seaside Sparrow – A Shadow and a Song by Mark Jerome Walters. Spraying for mosquitos, building Cape Canaveral property, and Disney involvement were all factors in the complicated tale. I have birded Merrit Island NWR for many years, and I always think about this bird's absence. Very sad.
You should have the baiji aka yangzte river dolphin in one of these videos
Nice video, sad subject, important information, 💕
Commenting here as the video is 11 hours old . Nice work .
I’d bet a dollar the auroch breeding program was abandoned because of pressure from the radical vegan animal rights environmentalists who claim cattle are destroying the world.
Ashamed to be human, wherever we go, death and destruction follows. The silver lining is we’re all more aware of it now, whether we wish to acknowledge it or not.
Great video
I remember "Orange Band" dying. I know it was in the paper, I'd some notion it was on the local news too. I vaguely recall on a trip to Discovery Island as a young child, one of the bird people talking about breeding programs. Fortunately these beautiful birds were among those immortalized by Audubon.
A good book about this kind of thing is Douglass Adams's "Last Chance To See" by the author of The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy.
He traveled all around the world writing about animals close to extinction, lightened by his wonderful sense of humour.
R.i.p Toughie
i wonder why they haven't tried to tissue culture the plant
I never knew the backstory of the dusky seaside sparrow.
As popular as it is nowadays to say that we humans are just another animal, the present reality is that we are living in the anthropocene. The only geological era named after a single species. Whether we like it or not, we have power far beyond that of any other species, and we need to stay mindful of what we do with it.
Oh dear me this is so sad and depressing
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A co-worker at my job site returned from a trip to an area of Southern Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada called "Cypress Hills" which was spared from being covered with ice during the ice age. Probably doesn't Have any endlings in it's known history though. Heard that some rare orchids as well as other flora and fauna live there.
Would like if there was any videos that could cover anything regarding an area of northern Alberta called "McClelland Lake Wetland Complex". An area currently undergoing massive development by an oil sands company. Also an area that harbours many rare flora and fauna (also including orchids)
Both areas are ecological gems, one of which isn't being bulldozed, other one is being bulldozed. Big money and politics likely reason for contrast in stewardship of these areas. One of these areas might be on the course for creating more endlings.
What a great informative and educational channel, it really saddens me that we have lost so much fauna and flora through human hand 💔
Toughie’s swan song seems predictive of the human race in my humble opinion.
I always admire your works & research on this channel, hope you doing well
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I thought the bird story was going to be about the Kauai o'o. The endling of that species was recorded calling desperately for anyone else of his species. The o'o's mating call is a song that's supposed to be performed as a duet. He sang his part, but no matter how long he waited, no one answered. He died the same year he was filmed. I assume of depression.
Endlings are so endless sad but so natural, even when humans fault
What about Tuone Udaina, the endling of Dalmatian?