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Period: 9000 BCE to
extinct animals
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5700 BCE
Irish Deer
Some have suggested hunting by humans was a contributing factor in the demise of the Irish elk.Some research has suggested that a lack of sufficient high-quality forage caused the extinction of the elk.
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2000 BCE
wooly mammoth
Scientists are divided over whether hunting or climate change, which led to the shrinkage of its habitat, was the main factor that contributed to the extinction of the woolly mammoth, or whether it was due to a combination of the two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth -
2000 BCE
Cave Lion
There was a suggestion of a shift in dietary preferences subsequent to the disappearance of the cave hyena.[21] The last cave lions seem to have focused on reindeer, up to the brink of local extinction or extirpation of both species
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Steller's Sea Cow
Steller's sea cow was quickly wiped out by the sailors, seal hunters, and maritime fur traders.
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Great Auk
The Little Ice Age may have reduced the population of the great auk by exposing more of their breeding islands to predation by polar bears, but massive exploitation for their down drastically reduced the population. By the mid-16th century, the nesting colonies along the European side of the Atlantic were nearly all eliminated by humans killing this bird for its down, which was used to make pillows.
The great auk had disappeared from Funk Island by 1800
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Quagga
As it was easy to find and kill, the quagga was hunted by early Dutch settlers and later by Afrikaners to provide meat or for their skins. The skins were traded or used locally.
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Japanese wolf
Some interpretations of the Japanese wolf's extinction stress the change in local perceptions of the animal: rabies-induced aggression and deforestation of the wolf's habitat forced them into conflict with humans, and this led to them being targeted by farmers.
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passenger pigeon
The population must have been decreasing in numbers for many years, though this went unnoticed due to the apparent vast number of birds, which clouded their decline.
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thylacine
It is likely that multiple factors led to its decline and eventual extinction, including competition with wild dogs introduced by European settlers,[73] erosion of its habitat, the concurrent extinction of prey species.
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