People nowadays don’t understand the worth of animals.They simply see profit in animals too.They rip off the animals to use their skins and other organs. Because of the misbehavior with the animals,there are some animals who have become extinct or there are animals who are ancestors only.
Some of the extinct animals are listed below:
1. The Golden Toad:
The golden toad,native of Costa Rican cloud forest in 1964. It is believed to be last seen in 1989.The golden toad has now become extinct due to the climatic changes. It is also said that due to some kind of fungal infections they have gone extinct. The original reason is still unknown to us.
2. The Eastern Elk:
These large mammals were mostly found in the Eastern parts of America prior to the Civil War. They were found in excessive quantity throughout the Appalachian Mountains and in some parts of Canada too.These became extinct in the 1600s.
The main reason behind their extinction is hunting,losa of habitat and climatic changes.
3. The Atlas Bear:
The Atlas bear was found in and around the region of the Atlas Mountains of North Africa from Morocco to Libya, and was the only African bear subspecies to survive into the historic era. The reason behind its extinction was the need for bears for sports. The people used to hunt them in the name of sports and thus they became extinct.
4. The BlueBuck:
The BlueBuck was mostly related to the antelope species which became extinct during the 1800s.
They were found in the Southwest part of Africa. It is believed that the Europeans hunted the BlueBucks which resulted in their extinction.
5. Saber-tooth Tiger:
As the name suggests,the Saber Tooth Tiger got this weird name because of the two elongated canines which they have in the upper jaws.These large mammals were found in the American grasslands during the Pleistocene Epoch (23 million to 10,000 years ago).
The reason behind their extinction is the extinction of Megafauna. After the depletion of the Megaflaura,the animals could not survive because of the weather as well as human activities.
6. The Norfolk Trotter:
The Norfolk Trotter was basically intertwined to King Henry VIII during the mid 16th century. It was the most popular trotting horse which could carry loads on a nonexistent road as well. The reason behind their extinction is still unknown to people.
7. The Ferghana:
The Ferghana horses are the most elegant horses which are also called the ‘blood-sweating horses’ or the ‘heavenly horses’.This unique breed is believed to come from the ancient kingdom of Dayuan in the Ferghana valley (modern day Uzbekistan).
8. The American Lion:
They were from the Pleistocene-Modern age(two million-10,000 years ago).
This Pleistocene predator may actually have been more closely related to tigers and jaguars than to modern lions.
Unfortunately, by the end of the last Ice Age, all of these vicious carnivores occupied the same dismal playing field, hunted to extinction by early humans at the same time as climate change and a reduction in their usual prey thinned out their populations.
9. The Syrian Elephant:
The Syrian Elephants were mostly used for warfare purposes.The common people of the ancient times used it to carry goods and luggages as well.
After flourishing in the Middle East for nearly three million years, the Syrian Elephants disappeared around 100 B.C., not coincidentally around the time that the Syrian ivory trade reached its peak.
10. The Turkoman:
The Turkoman horse, or Turkmene, was an Oriental horse breed from the steppes of Central Asia which is now extinct. They influenced many other horse breeds as well. Even now the horses which are bred in Iraq and Turkey are called Turkoman.
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