Summary: <p>Our episode this week is about some causes of extinction, but to keep from getting too depressing we’ll look at a lot of animals that were brought back from the brink of extinction by people who saw a problem in time to put it right. We’ll learn a lot about the passenger pigeon this week especially. Thanks to both Maureen and Emily for their suggestions! I didn’t mean to lean so heavily on North American animals in this episode–it just happened that way. I try to mix it up a little more than this ordinarily.</p> <p>The passenger pigeon (stuffed):</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-398" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/passenger-pigeon-300x240.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="240"></p> <p>The tiny black robin. It fights crime!</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-399" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/black-robin-300x222.png" alt="" width="300" height="222"></p> <p>The Tecopa Pupfish is not happy about being extinct:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-400" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Tecopa-Pupfish-300x205.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="205"></p> <p>The West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel SO CUTE:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-401" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/flyingsq1.72ppi.th_.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="150"></p> <p>This is what the Golden Lion Tamarin thinks about habitat destruction:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-402" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/goldenliontamarin-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224"></p> <p>A rare Amur tiger dad hanging out with one of his cubs:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-403" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Amur-Tiger-Dad-300x203.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="203"></p> <p><a href="http://www.batconservation.org">The Organization for Bat Conservation</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Episode transcript:</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.</p> <p>This week we’re going to learn about how animals go extinct, with examples of lots of animals who’ve gone extinct and others that have been saved from extinction by human intervention. Both topics were suggestions by Maureen, who also suggested several of the animals I included. I could have kept adding to this episode until it was 24 hours long, but I had to stop somewhere, and now that I’m recording I realize there are aspects of extinction I didn’t address at all.</p>
