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Environmental Baddies 5d

lavish_hitbomb_ilysfm

 Rip to the Christmas Island shrew Literally it was announced extinct a few days ago
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Anonymous 4d

If it makes you feel any better, i feel like smaller animals are hard to prove as extinct, because maybe they just evolved to hide better or are just out of view.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4d

Possibly but (at least what I’ve read so I’m happy to be proven false) the ants and rats invasively brought over did at least impact the population. Hopefully it’ll be a case where a few years from now we see “Christmas Island shrew spotted after declared extinct”

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Anonymous replying to -> lavish_hitbomb_ilysfm 4d

Fingers crossed with a hopeful heart 🤞🏼

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