If you turn up the volume for this video, you’ll hear the eerie mating call of the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō. This particular call went unanswered, because it was apparently the last member of the species singing the last such song that we will ever hear. https://goo.gl/zu7MkJ pic.twitter.com/r3Z3SFA7Xv
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
So beautiful - like SO beautiful... Sigh, sadness, misery at what humans are doing to diversity in nature.
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Replying to @bb7cdc @philosophicweb
Humans are believed to have played a significant part in the extinction, through introduction of animals inimical to the bird (such as rats, pigs and mosquitoes), as well as habitat destruction.
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Replying to @bb7cdc @philosophicweb
They came to Kauai on ships built and commandeered by humans.
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Replying to @bb7cdc @philosophicweb
Your original assertion did not mention blame, but rather questioned whether the bird went extinct *because of* humans.
5:40 PM - 2 Dec 2018
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