Well, some rich man came along and he thought, " Wouldn't it be cool to kill the last two Auk penguins and stuff them?! " So he paid someone to shoot them and stuff them. Sadly, his plans followed through and the penguins were killed. The last two. A female, and a male. If he wouldn't of shot them, they could have reproduced and on and on. See what hunters can do? Hunters are evil.
......The extinction of the great auks was for food source, fishing bait, clothing, pillows, decrease in oil, decoration, and most of the all the egg.......People in those days thought that the great auk was a witch, but that's not true............the great auks are the native americans food source during the winter.............
It was a flight-less species... humans simply ran after the birds and killed them for food !
just because of human greed
why did a great auk become extinct
Yes.
The feeding behaviour of auks varies between auk species, however in general they feed on small to medium sized fish. Unfortunately, the Great Auk is now extinct.
yes mostly Great Auks
The Great Auks were killed in great numbers for food and fishing bait by seafarers, later also for their feathers. When the population decline was noticed, demand for specimens from museums and collectors increased, which in the end contributed to the extinction.
It is a bird called the "Common Murre."Kayla
they are 75 - 85 centimeters tall and weigh 5 kilograms
My answer is that many people tried to kill them it's so sad :(.
Auks live in the northern hemisphere (north of 25°N). They are relatives of penguins but can fly.
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The northern hemisphere counterpart would be the Auk. Auks are from a completely different evolutionary family than penguins. Auks can fly but look and act a lot like penguins. Penguins and auks are a good example of evolutionary convergence.
I do.
Nowadays, we can still count with 16 different penguin species living on our earth, and they are: Emperor, Adelie, Chinstrap, African, Humboldt, Gentoo, Erect-crested, Fiordland, Galapagos, Little, Macaroni, King, Rockhopper, Yellow-eyed, Snares and Magellanic.
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