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In reply to the discussion: An elephant got caught on security camera [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)34. No, no!!!!! The cockroach SURVIVES, and we can't have that!
I think the dodo is more apropos!
Oh, dodo. Poor dodo. The flightless bird, native to the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, was known to mankind for less than 100 years ... but that's all it took for us to eradicate the species.
It wasn't so much that humans killed the stubby, rotund birds directly, but our decimation of their habitat and food source did an awful lot to hasten their demise.
And then there are the pigs, dogs and other predators that we introduced to the isolated island, where they ravaged the birds' nests and generally harassed them.
The last dodo died sometime in the late 17th century. Since then, the bird (a relative of pigeons and doves) has become a poster child for extinction and a reminder of the havoc we can wreak as human beings.
It wasn't so much that humans killed the stubby, rotund birds directly, but our decimation of their habitat and food source did an awful lot to hasten their demise.
And then there are the pigs, dogs and other predators that we introduced to the isolated island, where they ravaged the birds' nests and generally harassed them.
The last dodo died sometime in the late 17th century. Since then, the bird (a relative of pigeons and doves) has become a poster child for extinction and a reminder of the havoc we can wreak as human beings.
http://www.sciencechannel.com/creatures/10-extinct-species.htm
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Or did somebody reverse a video of an elephant taking trash OUT and littering?
pinboy3niner
Dec 2014
#7
Elephants are not Repbulicans! They (the elephants) need good legal representation to sue
1monster
Dec 2014
#20
Those undocumented pachyderms are stealing all the good union jobs and working for peanuts!!!
branford
Dec 2014
#23
I think that's the most squee per pound I've seen in a long time. Thank you. n/t
jtuck004
Dec 2014
#31