The Tragic End of the Great Auk

[@bestuan]

the irony of the great auk's attempted conservation efforts is depressing

[@FactorTrace]

Yeah, I agree. The awareness of species extinction in the pre-19th century Europe was still very low.

[@flatwavelength]

Its crazy how, in response to hunting one bird to extinction, people opted to hunt a different bird into extinction.

[@FactorTrace]

Yeah, it's horrible. People really didn't care that much about the natural world. But good thing the common eider survived and is receiving adequate protection nowadays.

[@niranjansrinivasan4042]

@@FactorTrace it's the mindset, if you consider yourself separate from nature and consider animals to be resources that ought to be exploited rather than something to be respected atleast for what they are, this happens

[@iamarizonaball2642]

@@FactorTrace why do I think if Atlantis existed, it would try and save the great auk from extinction?

[@phuripongphansiri1740]

@@iamarizonaball2642 I don’t think the atlantis was known to be some kind of caring civilization

[@notnormaluser]

i found this somehow.

[@parkerredeker5216]

Another interesting point about the Great Auk is the factor of Convergent Evolution, how two separate species of birds, North and South, both evolved into "penguins."

[@asoncalledvoonch2210]

Ok Darwin. 👌

[@robokill387]

Yes. It is a fact.

[@asoncalledvoonch2210]

@@robokill387 No, it's a THEORY. It always has been an unproven theory but people today keep saying it's a "fact" because that's what they've been taught in schools.... But it's not a fact, no matter how many times people say it is.

[@PelicanMobBoss]

@@asoncalledvoonch2210 You aren't living in reality. Why do you think Galapagos flightless cormorants are flightless, while every other cormorant can fly? Not even most young earth creationists would disagree with the fact that all cormorants share a common ancestor. That would so extreme, it's equal to denying that humans bred dogs and claiming that god made pugs and bulldogs.

[@Mr.Wetherilli]

​@@asoncalledvoonch2210 "it's always been an unproven theory" Convergent evolution is when two animals which aren't related are shown to be built for the same niches within a ecosystem, that also includes the animals looking similar, despite not being related And another thing, theory within science has a completely different meaning then what you're using it for, so not only do you have no idea what you're talking about but you also don't know the definition of a word depending on the context of its meaning, yes Convergent evolution is a fact, unless you can prove otherwise.

[@s.tavares3257]

I can NEVER understand how people can just go up to a helpless animal and club or strangle it to death hearing it plead for it’s life. Horrible.

[@FactorTrace]

People really didn't care about wildlife in the past, they were extremely cruel to animals. It's a lesson we have to learn from and improve our ways of treating wildlife and nature.

[@soudino2723]

it makes sense during those periods, people didnt care about animals and their mind was only focused on survival considering time back then was much worse than it is now, similar to some poachers they hunted the rare animals to feed them selves and their families

[@rickwrites2612]

​@soudino2723 Well the natural humans generally were sustainable with food acquisition so they may eat a few. But by the time they are dwindling, theyre being hunted across the earth by a minority of ppl trying to exploit a rare market niche. It's like a gamble to get rich. In other cases it's political, like the US government specifically made a policy to destroy the bison in 19th century, to starve the American Indians of the Great Plains, because the US wanted their land. Ppl said bison used to be so numerous youd look out and it look like a carpet of undulating brown for mile. There are pics of mountains of dead and skulls. They almost went extinct.

[@adamgoncalves1591]

People aren’t any better to animals nowadays either. Some actually waited till a species is only fewer than 10 remaining in order to prevent it from going extinct. (I’m referring to the rare porpoise the vaquita by the way).

[@treeman12815]

wow that’s sad, imagine being strangled to death while you’re just incubating your egg

[@Aethuviel]

My husband said "someone should find the graves of those men, dig a hole and put a funnel there for people to crap into"

[@adamgoncalves1591]

Even if the great auk was killed I find it hard to think how difficult it would be to strangle a bird to death. Birds may look weak but they have powerful wings and razor sharp bills and aggressive nature.

[@subraxas]

Thank you very much once more!

[@FactorTrace]

Thank you back!

[@subraxas]

@@FactorTrace 👍

[@Mr_Einiosaurus]

Gald to see you upload again

[@FactorTrace]

Another video next week!

[@vulea.51]

Two videos in a week? Christmas came early!

[@FactorTrace]

more like 3 videos in a month, another one coming next week! 😁

[@vulea.51]

@@FactorTrace Yesssss u legend😄

[@pipoms]

I really like this channel and the investigation behind, It's sad the number of species that has been extinct because of the humans

[@FactorTrace]

Thank you! It is really saddening to learn about the unique animals humans have made extinct

[@hidicproductions4849]

Such beautiful birds, I will never see in real life. Its so tragic. All those wonderful animals... extinct. 😢

[@Hinata0928]

We have to thank Iceland for it.

[@Hinata0928]

Iceland had a bad record with the bird. They hunted the bird to decimated levels. Then 3 idiots killed the last chance and last hope for the species, just because they wanted money.

[@stormhawk3319]

Pure evil how humans wiped out the Great Auk and among those responsible where ornithologists who despite trying to save the bird insisted on paying for dead specimens to “study” rather than complete protection and a ban on hunting them.

[@elreyfenix100]

Thank you very much for this video. I really like this kind of research videos.

[@arbie_m]

These kinds of hunting activities back then are one of the reasons why I wanted to time travel. 😅 Maybe to help prevent the extinction of the species in an unnatural way. 😢

[@Alfonsodicioccio]

The scientists back then weren’t being cautious of their actions in the mid 1900’s. Fame, science, desire of beauty, and the dream of adventuring into the wild unknown killed one of Earth’s beautiful creatures. The Auk Penguin is a reminder that we shouldn’t be obsessive to collect any kind of plant, animal, or any environments for our selves to make us special and impressive to others, especially the scientific community. We need to take what we need from nature then what we want, with wisdom.

[@laseriedeladilophosaure9246]

👍Très bonne vidéo elle m’appris des choses sur le grand " pingouins "

[@NatureEnjoyer523]

The music at the end really matches up

[@Goofya-q6x]

You should do Canis lupus Hodophilax aka the Japanese wolf next. It is a symbol of what japan has lost.

[@FactorTrace]

Oh, thanks for the suggestion. That is definitely an interesting animal to talk about, too bad I didn't notice it while writing the scripts for the series. I might look into it in the future!

[@NatureEnjoyer523]

@@FactorTrace The rocky mountain locust is also a intersting subject, since there populations make the passenger pigeon look pathetic

[@alfiemcqueen]

They don't deserve this. 😔

[@Kingdom-of-Parina]

I want the great auk to be on the in the unexstinction list and dodo

[@blo6k]

Very interesting bird. Humans did so much damage in this world its disgusting

[@Ron90121]

I really wish we could breed the great auk back they were one of a kind but now their gone..

[@rickwrites2612]

They are a good candidate for de-exinction. We have razorbills.

[@ZephyreWasHere]

@@rickwrites2612best not to play God

[@JAH-555]

This will be the fall of man kind we aren't gods ​@@rickwrites2612

[@JohnCalder-zl4rd]

Fun fact: You can see the Great Auk in Assassin's Creed Rogue

[@JosephConte-eb7xx]

It existed at the same time as Mary Shelly’s publishing of Frankenstein! I would envision Great Auks in the Arctic 🥶 🐻‍❄️ part of Frankenstein. 🧟‍♂️

[@saytr_the_doodler]

one of the animals i want to see brought back, if we really go thru with the ressuraction of extinc animals

[@jordanapgar8907]

But maybe someday in the not far away future the great auk will be resurrected,cloned,nurtured and also released back into the wild too!!

[@JAH-555]

Nope

[@jordanapgar8907]

@ what do you mean Nope we still have great auk DNA in museums and it’s not too late to try to grow and resurrect this recently extinct modern day seabird with a close cousin of this bird and that will be the razorbill the closest modern Day cousin to this flightless seabird!!

[@AviaAnimates_XD]

I actually know what the freak auk hatchling looks like

[@AviaAnimates_XD]

oops I meant great auk

[@FactorTrace]

Really? How do you know and what does it look like?

[@AlbyzRawrr]

​@@FactorTrace Can you make extinct of Javan Tiger?

[@AlbyzRawrr]

4:49

[@brandonforster3228]

9892 Augusta Creek

[@OpEditorial]

This bird has a good to high chance of re evolving naturally from one of the other remaining auk species

[@nophlast4237]

that's not how evolution works

[@CarltonPhlieger]

066 Maya Plains

[@StoneCBears]

Shame we'll never know why the Great Auk thrive in the Northern Atlantic but not the Northern Pacific.

[@AshleyTuai]

3975 McDermott Parks

[@LandonMirabelle-j9z]

Trevor Mission

[@EdmundJohannessen]

3861 Sipes Alley

[@ThomsonSandy-m2b]

Ashton Green

[@kynlykereh2910]

Imagine calling an orangutan a gorilla

[@ClaraPorter-x9z]

8703 Herzog Garden

[@daxbashir6232]

[@AdamHernandez-oi3hv]

Why did they kill the parents and the eggs delivery triangle the parents of smash the eggs why am I at the power to go back in time I will do it to the fisherman revenge for the great ox

[@LingMiller-u6k]

Delfina View

[@SandraRobinson-f8f]

353 Annie Squares

[@gabriellakennedy3782]

3674 Kiana Unions

[@AlfredBruce-x6w]

Oda Via

[@SpinoDude88]

Man this is horrible..

[@RalphCave-p6q]

Nitzsche Valleys

[@hsdinoman2267]

We have since built museums to celebrate the past, and spend decades studying prehistoric lives. And if all this has taught us anything, it is this: no species lasts forever. F off extinction rebellion

[@dodoxasaurus6904]

My fav quote from WWB's, very chilling but a lasting quote "No species last forever"

[@FactorTrace]

It is true, in fact, through the history of life on this planet, the overwhelming majority of life has gone extinct. Extinction is natural, until it's not. At the current rate, we're not just experiencing individual loss of species, but the loss of a whole biodiversity. The disappearance of keystone species might collapse the entire food chain, food that humans also depend on. The comprehensive argument about biodiversity loss will be presented in an upcoming video.

[@lohjutsulegend]

*_Nothing_* lasts forever. But that does not make it right to give a f*** about everything or even to destroy things just because we want to. Everyone you know will die sometime. Does that mean your grief when it happens is meaningless or to be shunned? Does it make it wrong to try to prevent the early death of those people or to keep them healthy to live longer? Saying nothing matters is just a convenient way to avoid responsibilities and problems, to stay ignorant so you don't have to think about those things or take action. Because when you accept that it matters you may have to, since ignoring the problem after accepting it's existence will make you feel bad.

[@hidicproductions4849]

Extinction Rebellion is right.

[@hsdinoman2267]

@@hidicproductions4849 howabout no

[@JessieLee-i8v]

Darwin Squares

[@Sillymood2763]

Fact:The great auk is a puffin

[@FactorTrace]

It's a species in a group called alcidae, which also includes the puffin.

[@1138Redhead]

I wouldn't say puffin, because it was not a puffin. But it was part of the group Alcidae which includes the puffin. So they have similar ways of living.

[@1138Redhead]

(and looking too)

[@neilrussel878]

GREAT AUKS AREN'T PENGUINS OF THE NORTH THEY ARE RELATED TO PUFFINS AND RAZORBILL People think great auk is a penguin..well.........they are not

[@Sara3346]

You missed the history lesson about the names of the animal.