Endlings, the sad end of the last of a species

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Any extinction is sad. But the point is worth repeating (it can never be repeated too often) that the vast majority of animal extinctions have been caused by humans. One of the worst examples is the dodo, which lasted lass than a century between being discovered and made extinct:

"The extinction of the dodo within less than a century of its discovery called attention to the previously unrecognised problem of human involvement in the disappearance of entire species."
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo