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YOU JUST STUMBLED UPON **STAN AND JARROD AT WAR!** THIS AWESOME WIKI IS ABOUT THE OH SO MIGHTY, **__WAR AND CONFLICT!__** our topic is about animals at war with each other.




 * __no, not that, but more like animals killing each other for food, yes it's a sad thing, but that is pretty much how it goes - the bigger the animal, the stronger they are, the more they kill.

and humans aren't big exactly but we've got the biggest and most powerful brains in the world.... and this is what were here to talk about. destuctivity of hum__** The story of the [|Passenger Pigeon] is one of the most tragic extinction stories in modern times. As recently as around 200 years ago they weren’t anywhere near extinction. In fact, they were actually the most common bird in North America, and some reports counted single flocks numbering in the billions. During some migrations, the flocks flying overhead would stretch for over a mile and could take several hours to pass. It would have been impossible to imagine a North American skyline without them. Yet somehow the species went from being one of the most abundant birds in the world to extinction in only about 100 years. What happened? Colonial hunters happened. The pigeon meat was commercialized and recognized as cheap food, especially for slaves and the poor, which led to a catastrophic hunting campaign on a massive scale. Furthermore, due to the large size of their flocks, the birds were seen as a threat to farmers. In fact, in 1703 the Catholic bishop of Quebec actually excommunicated the entire species. The last known Passenger Pigeon, named “Martha”, died in captivity on September 1st, 1914, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1896, the last flock of 250,000 birds were slaughtered by hunters despite the knowledge that it was the last flock of that size left.ans.