Still Waters Posted November 16, 2018 #1 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Their fur was used as a raw material for coats; their fat was used for oil lamps and cosmetics: right up to the end of the nineteenth century, millions of seals were being hunted and killed every year worldwide. The consequences of this episode of commercial hunting for today's seal populations is the subject of a study published today in Nature Communications. Population geneticists at Bielefeld University and the British Antarctic Survey have found that eleven seal species only narrowly escaped extinction. The scientists managed to include nearly all of the species alive today in their research. The study nevertheless reveals that most species survived the heyday of seal hunting in sufficient numbers to retain most of their genetic diversity. https://phys.org/news/2018-11-eleven-species-narrowly-extinction.html 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zep73 Posted November 16, 2018 #2 Share Posted November 16, 2018 (edited) It sickens me to hear of humans making animal species go extinct! WE ARE ANIMALS OURSELVES! We only operate with what nature gave us. Nature made us smart and capable of cooperation. It is survival of the fittest, not the cutest, not the most worthy to preserve, not the most rare. The fittest! We're on top now! Enjoy it while it lasts. And I assure you that nature will survive and make new species after us! PS. No we should not be careless and kill whatever we want. But we shouldn't feel guilty either for how things turned out. Edited November 16, 2018 by sci-nerd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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