According to the statistics of the world's "Red Book", in the past hundred years, the rate of species extinction has been 1,000 times faster than the rate of natural elimination, and 75 species have gone extinct every day in the world, and 3 species have gone extinct every hour.
After the start of the Industrial Revolution, this rate was significantly accelerated, and species such as the Icelandic great auk, the North American passenger pigeon, the South African spotted donkey, the Indonesian Balinese tiger, the Australian thylacine, the straight-ahead macaque, the high-nosed antelope, the Przewalski's wild horse, and the Taiwanese clouded leopard ceased to exist.
TOP.1 North American White Wolf
It became extinct in 1911, becoming the first of many subspecies of the North American gray wolf to become extinct.
Living in the barren mountains of the sparsely populated island of Newfoundland, also known as the North American white wolf, is a large, long-headed wolf species, white in color, head and feet are light ivory, up to two meters long, weigh 70 kilograms, and live in pairs.
The white wolf's beautiful white hair and feminine body are poetic, called "dream wolf", living on the island of Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada, extinct in human hunting, good at long-distance running, reindeer, beavers, voles and other rodents are the main food, fur is mostly brown and dark gray, there are also white, white wolf is a larger one, relatively rare and special, so it can be named white wolf, foraging for 200 kilometers at a time. In the spring and summer, dig holes under rock cracks to give birth. Male and female wolves form a team. Then they formed a large family to live together, and in the process of European conquest of the New World, the Newfoundland white wolf changed from a natural inhabitant to a "greedy devil" in the human mouth and was hunted and killed in large numbers to extinction.
TOP.2 Xinjiang Tiger
Also known as the Lop Po tiger, has been extinct in Xinjiang, academics generally regard the Xinjiang tiger as a subspecies of the Caspian tiger (Persian tiger), second only to the Siberian tiger (350 kg) and the Bengal tiger (260 kg), with a body length of 1.6-2.5 meters, a tail length of about 0.8 meters, and a weight of 200-250 kg.
It was declared extinct in 1979, but in the 1980s, there were soldiers in the Tacheng Military Subdistrict in Xinjiang who claimed to have watched herders hunt and kill one, and in 2001, the Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture Tourism Bureau also found suspected footprints of Xinjiang tigers, but none of them were confirmed, and the deterioration of the natural environment was the main reason, and human destruction ended their final life course.
TOP.3 Dodo
The dodo does not fly, resembles a large pigeon, lives on the island of Mauritius, is about 1 meter tall, three-legged, nests on the ground, and feeds on fruits.
In the only 200 years after being discovered by humans, in 1799, due to the extermination of human hunting, it was one of the most famous extinct animals besides dinosaurs, and there is a metaphor in English that "died like a dodo", which means to die very thoroughly, and the proverb "repeat the mistakes of the dodo" means to go extinct.
TOP.4 Tyrannosaurus Rex
The largest carnivore on land ever built, 43.3 feet long, 16.6 feet tall, weighing 7 tons, the massive skeleton is balanced by the long, heavy tail behind it, and the forelimbs are very thin and only two toes.
They survived for about 3 million years, extinct in the Cretaceous Tertiary event that wiped out a large number of animals, about thirty species of Tyrannosaurus rex, was the supreme ruler of the earth at that time.
TOP.5 Travelling pigeon
Disappeared in 1930, the delicious taste of the travel pigeon is the main reason for changing its fate, for the early immigrants, with a few strokes of the stick to the sky, you can shoot down several pigeons, with a shotgun to kill hundreds or even thousands of more is more common, every day millions of travel pigeons are trained to the big city, in the hunting competition, a winning hunter will shoot down tens of thousands of travel pigeons.
Unlike the average pigeon, it has a loud and loud call, a large number of pigeons on the planet, with a gray back, some blue, and a bright red chest.
When the traveling pigeons flew over the forests of North America, the birds blocked the sun, the ground was dark, like a tornado, the flock of birds was fifteen kilometers long and two kilometers wide, and a group of pigeons was recorded to have a population of 200 million.
The last wild traveling pigeon was shot down in 1900.
In 1909, only three of the once overwhelming number of traveling pigeons remained, which were fed at the Nova Sinati Zoo, and just fifty years later, the last of the zoo's last traveling pigeons was a female pigeon, Martha, who died on 1 September 1914.
TOP.6 Thylacine
The largest known marsupial carnivore, distributed in Australia and New Guinea, has a striped back and is called the Tasmanian Tiger and the Tasmanian Wolf.
Since its extinction after 1936, after European immigrants came to settle in the Australian continent, in Tasmania, there are still a certain number of endemic species such as thylacines and Tasmanian tasmanian devils, and over-hunting is the most important reason for the extinction of thylacines, as well as diseases, the introduction of dogs, etc.
TOP.7 Taiwan Clouded Leopard
One of the largest wild animals on the island of Taiwan, it is light gray-brown and has about 6 cloud-like dark markings on both sides of its body.
Before 1940, there were still about a few thousand, and because the clouded leopard fur was beautiful and generous, it was the superior raw material for making leather clothes, so it was destroyed, and some poultry were poisoned by poison.
In 1972, due to overhunting and habitat destruction, there was no trace of it, and in April 2013, Taiwanese scholars declared it extinct.
TOP.8 Chinese Rhinoceros
It is a collective name for the three species of rhinos (Indian rhinoceros, Sumen rhinoceros, Javan rhinoceros) that grow in China, with a body length of 2.1-2.8 meters, a height of 1.1-1.5 meters, and a weight of 1 ton. It is found in the southern provinces of China and inhabits the forest edge mountainous areas close to the water source. It is also known as the "great one-horned rhinoceros". Rhino horn is a precious hot and cool blood Chinese medicinal material, its skin and blood can also be used in medicine, due to the high economic and medicinal value of rhino horn, it was hunted by humans, and completely disappeared in China in 1922.
TOP.9 Caspian Tiger
The Caspian tiger, also known as the Persian tiger, lives in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, the Caucasus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, with a short and strong body, long and powerful legs, unusually large and wide claws, short ears, striped coloring similar to Bengal tigers, males with huge bodies, weighing 169 to 240 kilograms, while females weigh about 85 to 135 kilograms.
Going extinct in the 1970s, there are still occasional claims to have seen Caspian tigers, with no definitive evidence.
TOP.10 Asiatic Lion
Also known as the Indian lion, which survives in western India and southern China, is the only lion outside of Africa, larger than the African lion, with a total length of 2.7 meters and a weight of 180 kg.
In India, it is the animal most closely related to religion and royal power, and it is also a symbol of royal dignity and power, and to this day, the pattern on the indian national emblem is taken from the shape of the Asiatic lion.
After India became a British colony in 1757, colonists saw the hunting of Asiatic lions as a pastime. In 1908, only the last 13 Asiatic lions remained, all of which were captured and raised in captivity, and declared extinct in the wild.
TOP.11 Irish deer
Also known as the Irish elk or giant deer, it is the largest deer ever built, from Ireland to the west and east of Lake Baikal in the east, the giant deer is known for its large size, it has a shoulder height of 2.1 meters, and its antlers are also the largest of the known deer family, weighing 90 pounds.
As for the reasons for the extinction of the Irish deer, people are more likely to be hunted by humans because of their antlers.
TOP.12 New South Wales white kangaroos
Hailed by the Queen as Australia's prettiest animal, native to mainland Australia and Papua New Guinea, different species of kangaroos live in a variety of different natural environments in Australia, from cool rainforests and desert plains to the tropics.
Because of its precious, beautiful fur, it was extinct by the large number of human beings.
In 1927, the last white kangaroo also fell alone under the gun of a hunter.
TOP.13 Antarctic wolf
It is the only terrestrial mammal in the Falkland Islands of South America, also known as the Falkland Wolf, the Falkland Spaniel or the Falkland Fox, and is a canine living in the Falkland Islands, west of the southernmost province of Santa Cruz in Argentina, which never attacks humans and is the southernmost canine in the world.
In 1833, the British occupation of the Falkland Islands hastened the demise of the Antarctic wolf, who brought guns against the Antarctic wolf, and by 1875 the Antarctic wolf had been completely eliminated by the local herders and the British.
However, after the loss of wolves, herbivores and rodents multiplied rapidly, destroying the pastures and turning the once-rich pastures into large tracts of desertified land, forcing the shepherds to find another job.
TOP.14 Moa
One of the giant and non-flying birds, the giant moa is the largest, up to 3 meters in height, and the small moa is only the size of a turkey, which can be called the world's tallest bird.
Almost completely extinct in the 1800s, it is estimated to have gone extinct around the 1850s, mainly due to the hunting and reclamation of forests by the Polynesian ancestors of the Maori people, and subsequently, the main predator of moa birds, the Haast eagle, also became extinct.
TOP.15 Crowned duck
Also known as crested duck, it lives in northeast China, Japan, Korea, Russia, male crowned duck has a black-green crown, the chest, main feathers and tail are also black-green, the face, cheeks and throat are black-brown, the abdomen, tail feathers and both sides are dark gray, with black stripes. The upper wing feathers are white and the shoulders are reddish-green.
It was discovered in 1877, 1913 and 1916. On May 16, 1964, one male, two females and three animals appeared in Vladivostok and became extinct in the mid-20th century.
TOP.16 Chinese guinea deer
It is a tropical small deer, mainly in India, Myanmar, Thailand, but also in Gengma County and Ximeng County in western Yunnan, with short legs and likes to bow its head when moving. The body length is about 1m, the shoulder height is 0.6-0.7m, the weight is about 50kg, the body hair is a beautiful brownish red, there are white markings on the body, and the markings on the back are more obvious than those on the side of the body.
Due to the rapid deterioration of the natural environment, guinea deer soon disappeared in China.
After 1960, wild guinea deer were thought to be extinct.
TOP.17 Asian cheetah
Inhabiting mainly semi-arid deserts or open grasslands and dense jungles, the four-legged are very dog-like, and the claws have a small blunt bend and can only shrink by half. The legs are long and thin, so the running speed can reach 113 km per hour, and the maximum length of a jump can reach 9.1 m.
Asian cheetahs are only distributed in South Asia and the Middle East, and the population of Asian cheetahs has decreased dramatically by reclaiming jungles and grasslands and planting crops, destroying a large number of cheetah habitats, and domesticating cheetahs and killing them in large quantities.
After 1940, the Asian cheetah was only found once in a few years, the last time a wild Asian cheetah was found was in southern India in 1948, and the last Asian cheetah lived at the Delhi Zoo and died in January 1995 and has since become extinct.
TOP.18 Cave Lion
Also known as the European or Eurasian cave lion, it was once one of the largest lions, with a shoulder height of about 1.2 meters and a body length of 2.1 meters, and it is inferred that the cave lion is 5% to 10% larger than modern lions.
Cave lions began to become extinct during the Ice Age about 10,000 years ago, and the last recorded cave lion activity was in the Balkans 2,000 years ago.
TOP.19 Cat Fox
An extinct nocturnal carnivore that feeds on rats, rabbits and insects, and sometimes plants, with an average body length of only 0.51 meters, a pair of large ears that are very large against a petite posture, and are widely distributed in the plains and deserts of western North America.
At the end of the 18th century, with the boom in the development of the West, people found that the Southern California cat fox used to practice marksmanship and amusement is really good, in 1903, the southern California cat fox first became extinct, and the cat fox in other regions has also come to the brink of extinction.
TOP.20 Spotted Donkey
Half elephant zebra, half elephant horse, one of Africa's most famous extinct animals, is actually a subspecies of the steppe zebra, living in the southern region of Kip Province and Orange Free State in South Africa.
Under the hunting, leather collection, and domestication of humans, the spotted donkey has gone extinct.
The last wild spotted donkey was shot around the late 1870s, and the world's last spotted donkey died in Artis, Amsterdam, in August 1883. Magistria Zoo.
TOP.21 Small-toothed civet cats
Also known as small-toothed coconut cat, small-toothed cat, etc., it is small in size. It is distributed in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and is only distributed in Mengla and Mengyang in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, with a very small population.
In the 1970s, two specimens were collected in Mengla, Xishuangbanna, southern Yunnan, and 3 skins were purchased from the purchase of skins from Mengla and Jinghong Mengyang.
After the 1980s, no further investigation was conducted, and the main habitat was reclaimed to grow rubber, and the living environment was lost and became extinct.
TOP.22 Auk
The Great Auk, which became extinct after 1844, was the last of the large puffins that could not fly in the Atlantic.
The largest of all puffins, also known as the great petrel or penguin, is 75 cm tall and weighs about 5 kg and cannot fly. It lived in the Eastern Canadian Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and eventually became extinct due to hunting.
TOP.23 Bagy
It is widely distributed, with mainland Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea and some islands in eastern Indonesia, from desert to tropical rainforests, living in different living environments, food is seeds, roots, termites and spiders, the size of the claw, short and hard hair, short ears, tail and limbs, four-legged jumping walk.
After the arrival of Europeans, they began to reclaim and graze, coupled with the introduction of exotic animals such as foxes and dogs, the possum gradually lost its habitat and the population decreased sharply.
The Eastern Possum and the West Possum became extinct in 1940; The Australian porpoise possum became extinct in 1926; The Giant Rabbit Giant Beetle became extinct in 1930.
TOP.24 White-rumped langur
Distributed in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, only distributed in China on Hainan Island, China has been extinct, because its male buttocks have triangular white rump spots and named, inhabiting tropical forests, is a diurnal full arboreal monkey, with fruits, seeds, shoots and petioles as the main food, also eat birds and insects, listed in the Washington Convention CITESI level protected animals.
It is one of the most colorful primates in terms of body color.
On December 20, 1893, the Natural Museum in Dresden, Germany, received a specimen of a white-rumped langur captured on the Chinese island of Hainan in 1882, the first and last time that a second has been seen in 100 years.
TOP.25 Przewalski's Wild Horse
Also known as the Mongolian wild horse, is one of the subspecies of wild horses, resembling a domestic horse, but no long hairs on the forehead, short and upright neck mane, inhabiting mountain grasslands and deserts, alert and good at running, distributed in The North Pagoda Mountain in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang, China and the Mane Mountain area at the junction of Gansu and Inner Mongolia.
In 1890, a German caught 52 wild horses from China, and after a long distance to Hamburg, only 28 were left, of which 8 bred offspring.
Since the late 1980s, wild horses have been brought back from Europe to Xinjiang, China, for semi-loose culture.
TOP.26 Queensland Furry-nosed Wombat
Distributed in the eastern, southern and central semi-desert grassland areas of Queensland, Australia, it is not good-looking, but it is a herbivores, similar to rodents, like to be active at night, but usually active in the morning and evening, like to be alone, accustomed to eating "nest grass" near the entrance and exit of the cave, will not leave the cave very far, the cave is very large, reaching a depth of about 800 meters, there are several entrances and exits.
Habitat destruction, hunting and fighting with livestock for food, and small volcanic eruptions, the Queensland hairy-nosed wombat was extinct in southeastErn Queensland in 1900
TOP.27 Tiger rat
A large rat, up to 0.24 m in length, 0.15 m in tail length, weighing more than 200 g, the head accounts for nearly 1/3 of the entire body length, the coat color is black and bright and thick, the jaw is strong and powerful, the four feet are very pointed, the temperament is very docile, well-behaved, is a kind of herbivorous rat living in the grass, feeding on seeds, plant roots, stems and fruits.
After 1887, the European fleet arrived, and the bear rats that came with the fleet to "smuggle" brought ruin to the tiger head rat, the bear rat not only ate the original rats on the island, but also brought various infectious diseases, because isolated from the outside world, the tiger head rat did not have any immunity, and died of plague in large quantities.
In just two years, tiger rats became very rare, and they died of bear rat bites and plague.
In 1900, the tiger head rats all disappeared.
TOP.28 West African lions
Once widespread on the African continent except for the central Sahara Desert and tropical rainforests, india also has a small distribution, now the lion has disappeared in West Africa, only in East Africa and South Africa has a small distribution, mostly living in national parks.
As early as the 16th century, Europeans set foot in West and North Africa, they often engaged in hunting activities, and in the greed and triumphant laughter of these people, lions in West Africa and North Africa decreased day by day.
In 1865, the last West African lion also fell under the muzzle of the gun, and in 1922 the North African lion disappeared forever.
TOP.29 European bison
As the most famous extinct animal in Europe, the extremely large cattle first lived in India about 2 million years ago, migrated to the Middle East, and later migrated to the Far East, and settled in Europe about 250,000 years ago.
By 1564, it was surveyed that only 38 European bison had survived.
The last recorded live European bison, the female, died in 1627 in the Giakotaro jungle in Poland, and its skeleton is now preserved in the city of Stockholm.
TOP.30 Steller Manatee
The defenseless animal, which went extinct faster than one could have imagined, was discovered in 1741 by the naturalist Giog. Found in the Bering Sea near the Coast of Asia, Steilar is 7.9 meters long and weighs about 3 tons.
According to Steiler, "the animal never came ashore, had always lived in the water, its skin was dark and thick, and it looked like an old oak tree that had been peeled off; compared to the proportions of its body, its head was rather small, toothless, and there were only two rows of flat bones, one on top and one on the bottom". According to Styler, the animal is very docile.
Due to the large number of far-reaching sailors hunting for food at that time, it became extinct after 1768.
The extinction of these lovely wild animals makes our hearts ache, animals are our most loyal friends of human beings, we can not harm the wild animals in the forest, we humans should respect wild animals from the heart, respect every life, we can not kill innocent lives for the selfish desires of human beings, to occupy the space where wild animals live.
If animals are not protected, then in a few decades, only humans may live alone on the earth, from now on, protect the natural ecological environment, treat animals kindly, the earth will be full of life and love.
So I'll make some suggestions:
1. Do not hunt animals and birds, and do not carry out trafficking activities.
Second, do not cut down trees indiscriminately, do not destroy bird nests, and do not harm birds.
3. Build animal hospitals and welfare institutions throughout the country.
Fourth, do not eat wild animals.
I hope that everyone will protect animals, "fear life, treat animals well", starting from ourselves!