Celebrity Extinctions
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2015-06-18T05:49:41+00:00
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Extinct 1805. Range: Cape Province, South Africa. Specimens in Lieden, Paris, Vienna and Stockholm Natural History Museums. Extinction due to habitat degradation from overgrazing and hunting.
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Only one mounted specimen is known to be in existence, at the Paris Museum National Histoire Naturelle after living in the zoo there until 1868. Range: Thailand.
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(Macropus grey) Considered to be the most elegant, graceful and swift species of kangaroo. Extinct 1939. Range South-western Australia and Victoria.
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Painted from specimen in the American Natural History Museum, New York. Thylacinus cynocephalus. Native to Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea. Extinct 1938.
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Painted from Jean-Baptiste Oudry pastel drawing circa 1840. (See Getty Museum article link )
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Painting study from Jean-Baptiste Oudry painting, Leopard. 1741.
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(Campephilus imperialis). Range: Mexico. Last sighted 1956. Considered critically endangered or extinct. Is or was the worlds largest woodpecker species.
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(Sceloglaux albifacies) Range: New Zealand. Reportedly attracted to violin music.
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Environmental status: vulnerable. Range: Nepal, India, China. Estimated population 11,000 to 20,000.
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(Onychogalea lunata). Range: central Australia.
Painted from specimen in the Paris Natural History Museum.
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Equus quagga quagga. Range: South Africa. Last specimem died Amsterdam Zoo, 1883.
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Pinguinus impennis. Range: New England to northern Spain. Flightless.
