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Mokele-mbembe is the name of a mythical cryptozoological living in the water creatures, mention of which occur frequently in the folklore and legends of the peoples of the Congo basin in Africa. Descriptions of its appearance are much like the Loch ness monster from the Western legends, but also can remind and real representatives of the infraorder sauropod dinosaurs.
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A dozen thousand years ago on the territory of our wonderful country in large numbers met cute hairy elephants called mammoths scientists.Currently, most experts believe that mammoths became extinct due to sudden climate change, leading to changes in habitat..
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Sea cow or Steller's cow — destroyed human mammals of sirens.
Steller's cow lived only on the coast of the commander Islands, although current paleontological data suggest that in the prehistoric era, its range was much wider. Following the discovery of poaching for meat has led to the complete disappearance of this animal to 1768.
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Before 1800 this parrot was quite widespread. However, the rapid colonization of the island of Cuba, the destruction of forests, which were replaced by coffee, banana and other plantations, as well as prosecution for bright plumage and meat, has led to the disappearance of species. By 1849 there were only 19 individuals living in remote areas. The population failed to recover.
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In the adopted classification, this term applies to the Hokkaido wolf or Ezo wolf, lived in Hokkaido. The second subspecies gandossi Japanese wolf or Honshu wolf .The subspecies became extinct in the period of the Meiji Restoration in 1889, due to the strong development of the island under the farm. The Meiji government organized a campaign for their poisoning.
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The laughing owl, or new Zealand owl, the gull — species of extinct predatory birds family owls that lived in New Zealand
The extinction of the laughing owl is associated with hunters, and agriculture, and destruction of terrestrial birds cats and stoats — they were brought by the Europeans for the destruction of small rats.
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Hunting of wandering pigeons were native Americans and intensified with the arrival of the Europeans in the 19th century. Pigeon meat was supplied as a cheap food, resulting in hunting of the past few decades has become rampant. On 1 September 1914 in Cincinnati zoo dies - the last of the wandering pigeons.
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Tasmanian marsupial tiger, like any other, was a predator, he will automatically become a competitor to the settlers, who began to develop new areas of Tasmania. They destroyed just over a hundred years. This was easy thylacine often surrendered without resistance and was killed, not even caused by humans, wounds and from the shock.
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