What has become extinct because of humans?

Answer 1

There are many hundreds, if not thousands. I'll start the list off, in no particular order, and hope others can add to it:

1. The Tasmanian tiger

2. The Passenger Pigeon

3. Aurochs Cattle of Europe

4. The Quagga Zebra

5. Atlas Bear of Africa

6. The Cape Lion

7. The Dodo bird of Mauritius

8. The Javan Tiger

9. The Great Auk

10. The Yangtze River Dolphin more…

To put another perspective on this, when humans reached North America 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, 15 entire genera of large mammal became extinct, hundreds of species of horse, mammoth, mastodon, big cat, camels and peccaries, giant condors, bears, pronghorn and sloths. Many believe that this was climate chanced induced but more and more evidence points to human exploitation and activities being the main instigator. Go back 60,000 - 40,000 years ago, massive extinctions of large bodied animals followed the arrival of humans in Australia and New Guinea and many more were finished off when the Europeans arrived just 200 years ago. Marsupial lions, giant kangaroos and wallabies, huge wombats and giant komodo dragons to name but a fraction. When the Maori first found New Zealand it was full of hundreds of species of flightless bird, including 13 species of the giant Moa, these were preyed upon by the giant Haast Eagle. Within a few hundred years they were all but gone. Madagascar and it's giant birds and lemurs suffered a similar fate.

During our expansion out of Africa over the last 100,000 years, we have probably caused unimaginable numbers of unique animals to slip into extinction. We often forget that these large animals probably had smaller symbiotic species that either lived on, in or around them. Kill the last giant ground sloth and with it goes all the parasites, bacteria and small animals that depended on it. The extinction of one animal can have a cascade effect across entire ecosystems.

Answer 2

some examples are the quagga, the dodo bird, tasmaian wolf( or at least they think so), the stellear sea cow, and the javan tiger. there is too much animals to name that became extinct because of human ativities. === ===

Answer 3

There are too many to name. However, one famous example is the thylacine, sometimes referred to as the Tasmanian tiger. They were falsely accused of killing lots of livestock, and hence people hunted them to extinction. Another example is the passenger pigeon. There were billions of them in North America until they were hunted as a cheap food source, all the way to extinction. Aurochs, the ancestor to domestic cattle, went extinct during the 1600's due to hunting, habitat destruction for farming, and diseases spread by cattle.

Answer 4

Most modern extinct animals died out because of human hunting, like the dodo, passenger pigeon and greater auk.

Answer 5

well you can bet its more than 200,000 animals (counting dinos) ex: dodo birds,several different kinds of frogs,and the tasminian tiger! IT is quite sad :(

Answer 6

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