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A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished (nautil.us)
submitted 2 years ago by SemioticStandard@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org
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Like many of you, birds are very special to me. I connect with them like I don’t any other living creature, save my wife and kids. I photograph them. I’ve covered my body in nothing but bird tattoos.

To see that a THIRD of them have disappeared is like a knife to the heart.

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[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

The reason that Africa is the only continent with so many giants animals, is that humans hunted almost all of the native mega fauna everywhere else extinct.