I made more arts.Extinct one this - the Passenger Pigeon. Went from being the most numerous bird on Earth to extinct in less than 100 years.
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sun 26 Dec 2010, 2:49,
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Nice!They were good eatin'...
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HairyTwatter certified eel and sodium salesman,
Sun 26 Dec 2010, 3:02,
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Unfortunately so.The pic's for an encyclopedia on BirdForum - they only use members' pictures and of course, none of us have photos of things that have been gone that long...
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sun 26 Dec 2010, 3:18,
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Om nyom nyom.Have a good Christmas?
Ah, the irony of watching Ricky Ponting fronting an advert about how England are going to be thrashed by Australia, while his team collapses like a Chinese school in an earthquake...
(Ah, the irony of watching Ricky Ponting fronting an advert about how England are going to be thrashed by Australia, while his team collapses like a Chinese school in an earthquake...
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sun 26 Dec 2010, 3:36,
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Yeah I noticed that :(Christmas wasn't too bad, ate a bit too much, drank a bit too much.
How did you fare?
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Sun 26 Dec 2010, 3:39,
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How did you fare?
Pretty good, ta.Didn't overeat (I'm a changed man...) and the kids had a great time of it apart from the youngest having a paddy over the other one getting a dinosaur excavation kit (plastic bones in a block of soft plaster).
Need beer.
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sun 26 Dec 2010, 3:49,
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It honestly pisses me off, the rate at which we kill thingsSo many species that we have just disposed of without thinking. I really am depressed that I'll never get to see a dodo, and when I heard about lemurs the size of gorillas that just aren't around any more I got really rather pissed off at our entire race.
Lovely picture, by the way, I just wish there were more than drawings and the odd photo to show us creatures that we've nothing better to do than destroy.
(Lovely picture, by the way, I just wish there were more than drawings and the odd photo to show us creatures that we've nothing better to do than destroy.
shovelboy This is bad - Two minutes to Belgium,
Sun 26 Dec 2010, 4:00,
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It's the things that weren't rare in the first place:Labrador Duck, Great Auk, Carolina Parakeet, Elephant Bird and so on - species where they were numerous and under no threat.
Species go extinct all the time naturally and chances are a lot of the ones that were rare before we started sticking our oar in were going to extirpate anyway, but things like the above are pretty shameful.
However, overall, things may be startig to look up a little. Places like Brazil are now realising just how important places like the rainforests are and if other nations catch on, maybe the pressure will be off a few species.
(Species go extinct all the time naturally and chances are a lot of the ones that were rare before we started sticking our oar in were going to extirpate anyway, but things like the above are pretty shameful.
However, overall, things may be startig to look up a little. Places like Brazil are now realising just how important places like the rainforests are and if other nations catch on, maybe the pressure will be off a few species.
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sun 26 Dec 2010, 4:08,
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Beautiful arts.I like your drawings :)
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Prequal This is serious business. Very serious.,
Sun 26 Dec 2010, 12:53,
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Thanks!I might be drawing a few more extirpated birds for their pages. Sad, but it's quite a challenge as there are only old b&w photos and stuffed birds to work from. I used four photos to work from to make the image - the problem with stuffed birds is that they are often on funny poses.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sun 26 Dec 2010, 13:22,
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Natural history museums are always my first stop on any holidayGuaranteed entertainment.
Looking forward to the drawings.
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Prequal This is serious business. Very serious.,
Sun 26 Dec 2010, 13:37,
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Try the one in Vienna.Best museum I've been to. Sacrilege to say it, but it's better than the NHM in London.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sun 26 Dec 2010, 13:44,
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