Which three of these Ten Animals would yu restore from Extinction?

[Jimmy D]

Sounds like you are thinking along devouring lines? Sadly, being naturally slim didn't keep people from capturing, fattening them, and eating them.

Well, there's been one of these outside my window today....

 

[Radrook]

Well, there's been one of these outside my window today....

Pigeon soup? Or pigeon barbecue?

 

[Radrook]

That is most interesting. Such pretty birds.....their coloring there is very much like robins....

ever notice that you never see a "lone" robin, that there is at least one other robin close by?

Beautiful pink coloring indeed! Never to be seen again unless it is brought back by either humans or our creator. Or maybe there are planets where they are still flying around and being treated with the respect that they deserve despite their pooping tendencies.


BTW

Actually, the only robins I had the privilege to see were those we occasionally and rarely encountered as kids at Newark New Jersey's Branchbrook Park and they were always alone. Only one I saw really up close was in its dying throes from a rock that my friend hurled at it. It didn't hit it straight on but bounced once on the ground and caught it in mid air as it tried to flee.

The kid who threw the rock seemed shocked at having killed such beautiful bird for no valid reason at all. Held it in his hands with a shocked and sorrowful expression on his face as if trying to somehow undo the damage he had done. Of course the Robin was beyond repair. It had been a rock a fourth its size and had hit it with great velocity. The Robin opened its beak wide and wrapped its long tongue around one of the kid's fingers for some reason and then died. Said later that had not really meant to kill it. Thought that it would easily evade as robins usually did.

 

[brinny]

Beautiful pink coloring indeed! Never to be seen again unless it is brought back by either humans or our creator. Or maybe there are planets where they are still flying around and being treated with the respect that they deserve despite their pooping tendencies.


BTW

Actually, the only robins I had the privilege to see were those we occasionally and rarely encountered as kids at Newark New Jersey's Branchbrook Park and they were always alone. Only one I saw really up close was in its dying throes from a rock that my friend hurled at it. It didn't hit it straight on but bounced once on the ground and caught it in mid air as it tried to flee.

The kid who threw the rock seemed shocked at having killed such beautiful bird for no valid reason at all. Held it in his hands with a shocked and sorrowful expression on his face as if trying to somehow undo the damage he had done. Of course the Robin was beyond repair. It had been a rock a fourth its size and had hit it with great velocity. The Robin opened its beak wide and wrapped its long tongue around one of the kid's fingers for some reason and then died. Said later that had not really meant to kill it. Thought that it would easily evade as robins usually did.

Awwwwww so sad....it was probably alone because its companion was most likely scared off....

i've always loved robins...

 

[Radrook]

Awwwwww so sad....it was probably alone because its companion was most likely scared off....

i've always loved robins...

Having killed such a bird is a horrible memory to have to live with for certain humans.
Hopefully those who do feel that way about the value of animal existence will take measures to prevent any further species extinctions. Otherwise this planet might become a pretty lonesome place for us as humans in the future.

How many species are we losing?

 

[Larniavc]

I would bring back the Moa, the Stellar's Sea Cow and the Dodo.

Me too.

 

[brinny]

Having killed such a bird is a horrible memory to have to live with for certain humans.
Hopefully those who do feel that way about the value of animal existence will take measures to prevent any further species extinctions. Otherwise this planet might become a pretty lonesome place for us as humans in the future.

How many species are we losing?

That's a good point.

And about the robin...i am convinced that creatures, upon their death, join their Creator, Who created them.

 

[Radrook]

That's a good point.

And about the robin...i am convinced that creatures, upon their death, join their Creator, Who created them.

It definitely would be nice to see my pet parakeets, pet dog and two pet turtles again. .

 

[brinny]

It definitely would be nice to see my pet parakeets, pet dog and two pet turtles again.

I believe they're with their Creator, as it is written, that He sees even the sparrow that falls.

 

[Radrook]

I believe they're with their Creator, as it is written, that He sees even the sparrow that falls.

I once had a girlfriend online who constantly was grieving her pet horse and pet dogs which had passed away. She wholeheartedly believed that they were all in heaven looking down on her and hoped to be reunited with them after death. I wrote many poems to assure her of that hope. Ironically, in the long-run she loved her pets far more than she loved me and that contributed to our final break-up..

BTW
Maybe if I had toned it down a few notches with the animal poetry things would have lasted longer.

 

[brinny]

I once had a girlfriend online who constantly was grieving her pet horse and pet dogs which had passed away. She wholeheartedly believed that they were all in heaven looking down on her and hoped to be reunited with them after death. I wrote many poems to assure her of that hope. Ironically, in the long-run she loved her pets far more than she loved me and that contributed to our final break-up..

BTW
Maybe if I had toned it down a few notches with the animal poetry things would have lasted longer.

Awwwww....grief and loss can be very difficult and challenging.

 

[Radrook]

Great auk, .

Fine looking bird!

The great auk was 75 to 85 centimetres (30 to 33 in) tall and weighed around 5 kilograms (11 lb), making it the second-largest member of the alcid family (Miomancalla was larger[4]). It had a black back and a white belly. The black beak was heavy and hooked, with grooves on its surface. During summer, the great auk's plumage showed a white patch over each eye. During winter, the auk lost these patches, instead developing a white band stretching between the eyes. The wings were only 15 centimetres (5.9 in) long, rendering the bird flightless. Instead, the auk was a powerful swimmer, a trait that it used in hunting. Its favourite prey were fish, including Atlantic menhaden and capelin, and crustaceans.
Great auk - Wikipedia

By John James Audubon, Bird Artist of America. (1785-1851) - University of Pittsburgh, Public Domain, File:PinguinusImpennus.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Nesting ground with juveniles and eggs, by Keulemans

By John Gerrard Keulemans - Welcome extinct-website.co.uk - BlueHost.com, Public Domain, File:Pinguinus.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Here is how the last one was dispatched:

Great auk specialist John Wolley interviewed the two men who killed the last birds,[72] and Sigurður described the act as follows:

The rocks were covered with blackbirds [referring to Guillemots] and there were the Geirfugles ... They walked slowly. Jón Brandsson crept up with his arms open. The bird that Jón got went into a corner but [mine] was going to the edge of the cliff. It walked like a man ... but moved its feet quickly. caught it close to the edge – a precipice many fathoms deep. Its wings lay close to the sides - not hanging out. I took him by the neck and he flapped his wings. He made no cry. I strangled him.
Great auk - Wikipedia
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[Radrook]

I say Carcharadon megalodon and Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, so we can train them for use in the coming war against New Zealand, and Canis dirus, because I like huskies.

Curious choices and motives!

War between Australia and New Zealand you say?

 

[grasping the after wind]

None. good riddance.

 

[Armoured]

None. good riddance.

You'e just jealous because you don't have any spinosaurs or dire wolves.

 

[grasping the after wind]

You'e just jealous because you don't have any spinosaurs or dire wolves.

So you would think.

Game Of Thrones ~ The Rains Of Castamere with lyrics (Lannister Song) - YouTube

 

[Radrook]

War between everyone and New Zealand if there's any justice.

I have no idea why that would be so nor how those animals would conceivable be of any assistance. Which of the animals on the list would you prefer to restore is the question to which I am seeking response. Do you have any preference in relation to any of them?

 

[Radrook]

None. good riddance.

What harm were they personally doing to you?

 

[Jimmy D]

Pigeon soup? Or pigeon barbecue?

Pie.

 

[Jimmy D]

Maybe if I had toned it down a few notches with the animal poetry things would have lasted longer.