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Why do cows exist. Before they wereextinct they inhabited the northern Pacific.
The Amazonian manatee Trichechus inunguis the West Indian manatee Trichechus manatus and the West African manatee Trichechus.
Why are sea cows extinct. Sea cow Hydrodamalis gigas also called Stellers sea cow very large aquatic mammal now extinct that once inhabited nearshore areas of the Komandor Islands in the Bering Sea. Stellers sea cows were wiped out by hunters in the 18th century less than 30 years after they were first discovered by Arctic explorers. The Stellers Sea Cow became extinct because of humans huntingthese sea cows.
Sea Cows are extinct everywhere. Before they wereextinct they inhabited the northern Pacific. Not long after the discovery of the hapless animals due to their friendliness and the fact that they were essentially defenseless hunters for fur discovered that the meat of the Sea cow was very tasty and easy to get.
Less than 27 years the Stellers Sea Cow had been systematically killed off to the brink of extinction. The last Sea cow died purportedly on an island in the Bering sea in 1768. The Stellers sea cow is a massive sirenian that was discovered by Europeans and hunted to extinction only 27 years apart.
In 1741 Bering Sea explorers became shipwrecked on what is known today as Bering Island. With no trees and no land animals to hunt they turned to the sea and German explorer Georg Steller discovered the enormous relative of the dugong. Word quickly spread of the fat slow and delicious food source swimming in large herds in the Bering Sea.
Sirenians or sea cows are a particular group of mammals that superficially resembles whales in having amongst other features a streamlined-body and horizontal tail fluke. Why do cows exist. So we can eat them.
So we the self-absorbed self-righteous elite can eat them. Statistically nearly all extant cattle are the creations of several millennia of breeding first for docility then for me. Hydrodamalis gigas or Stellers sea cow is probably the strangest and most fascinating sirenian.
Discovered in 1741 and extinct by 1768 due to overhunting little is known about this animal. Based on accounts and sketches it differed from other sirenian species. First it was huge.
The cow for example being a valuable source of food but have you seen anybody worrying about the cow being extinct. Indeed the great demand for beef surely ensures that the cow population will continue to thrive. Why does the commercial value of ivory threatens the elephant while the commercial value of beef protects the cow.
The reason is that elephants are a common resource while cows. Manatees family Trichechidae genus Trichechus are large fully aquatic mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cowsThere are three accepted living species of Trichechidae representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia. The Amazonian manatee Trichechus inunguis the West Indian manatee Trichechus manatus and the West African manatee Trichechus.
Sea Cows are extinct everywhere. Before they were extinct they inhabited the northern Pacific Ocean around Alaska. Hunters may have even killed seven times as many sea cows as they could eat using wasteful primitive hunting methods assuming there was.
Stellers sea cow was one of the last survivors of the Pleistocene era - the geological era immediately preceding our own that was an age of giants when saber-toothed tigers lived in North. Whether this wave of extinctions was caused by climate change overhunting by humans or some combination of both remains a subject of intense debate among scientists. Moreover the use by hunters of wasteful and primitive hunting methods may have caused them to kill up to seven times more sea cows than they could eat.
These causes as well as the fact that Stellers sea cows had no place where they could hide from humans drove the species to extinction.