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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

10,000 Birds

Everything was going to be extinct – the condors, the whales, the Whooping Cranes , the elephants and tigers, the whole shebang, and that was even if we didn’t get nuked. If something got rare we’d just tuck a preserve around it and keep it as a tourist attraction. For a child of those 80s, things seemed fairly hopeless.