It's official: Caribbean monk seal is extinct

[Mr.Sam]

After five years of futile efforts to find or confirm sightings of any Caribbean monk seals — even just one — the U.S. government on Friday announced that the species is officially extinct and the only seal to vanish due to human causes.



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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25007277

[ToxicPaddy]

Stuff like this, where humans are the cause of the extinction, makes me angry. We got to realize we are not the only important animals in the world!

[Moh]

Aww :(
I love seals.

Its funny how the human race fear extinction, when really we deserve to become extinct. Would be the best thing for this planet tbh.

Just because were the most intelligence species *known*, it doesn't give us the right to extinct other species.

[jessLOL]

bet's on the next extinct animal :S

[Loser]

There's plenty of other seals left.

[FlyingJesus]

Oh yeah who knew anything about Caribbean monk seals before this thread? Or that they even existed? Seriously it's not a shame lol

[Technologic]

Does anybody actually care? They didn't really have a purpose

[Loser]

Course they don't care, but they will give the impression that they do. Giving all this "poor old seals" ********.

[Mr.Sam]

well it has to be 5 years since a sighting to be classed as extinct, and it would have been at least 5 years previous of a low number so not a lot of people would know about them.
Oh yeah who knew anything about Caribbean monk seals before this thread? Or that they even existed? Seriously it's not a shame lol

[PaintYourTarget]

I miss them already =[

[FlyingJesus]

If they were so good they wouldn't all be dead lol

[Discharge Man]

Only last week I had a lovely Carribean monk seal steak... :(

[PaintYourTarget]

If they were so good they wouldn't all be dead lol
Shut up! You wouldn't understand! =[

[Virgin Mary]

lol why did people hunt them?

[slam]

unlucky for them

[Monkwrestler]

If they were so good they wouldn't all be dead lol
Hey how on earth are they suppose to stand a chance against us as we have guns and they definitely don't and even then we pollute the earth so much animals can not evolve quickly enough to be able to resist the effects at the rate we are going.

lol why did people hunt them?
Same reason why they hunted elephants, for the cash of course.....

[jessLOL]

i really dont care about the seals because ive never seen them before in my life and didnt know what they was.. :S
but its worrying, and its worrying to think whats the next animal to be extinct is going to be.

[FlyingJesus]

Hey how on earth are they suppose to stand a chance against us as we have guns and they definitely don't

Yeah, hence us being the dominant species on earth.

[GommeInc]

To be honest, I don't care, never really heard of them and they mustn't of been too interesting if people hunted them and no action was taken sooner "/

[jessLOL]

it is still horriable though that is happening :'(

[PaintYourTarget]

it is still horriable though that is happening :'(
It's not anymore, we got them all.

[FlyingJesus]

looooooool

[beth]

****, what am i gonna do for my next coat?

[FlyingJesus]

Don't be stupid Bethanitch there's plenty of tigers left

[beth]

Don't be stupid Bethanitch there's plenty of tigers left
the rarer, the better.
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[FlyingJesus]

Man get me some ivory while they're at it, I could do with a new cane

[PaintYourTarget]

the rarer, the better.
i'll get my nigs down south to go hunt me one.
If they don't become extinct before you get there, you do work them awfully hard.

[beth]

well what other purpose in life do they have?
apart from being pitied, laughed at and despised.

[FlyingJesus]

Damnit I can't tell racist jokes on here lol I had a good one too

[PaintYourTarget]

Hasn't anyone else considered Willy Wonka's Oompa Loompa's to be extremely racist?

[Monkwrestler]

Yeah, hence us being the dominant species on earth.
Actually BUGS are the dominant species especially the nasty buggers such as army ants which can literally plow through entire villages like they weren't there eating human and animal alike without any care for reprecussions

But also if kill every animal we will then go extinct our selves due to lack of food due to the food chain going out the window so really it is in our best intrest to not just kill everything.

[FlyingJesus]

What has a Caribbean monk seal ever done for humanity? Except make nice coats or something

[Orangeesh]

What has a Caribbean monk seal ever done for humanity? Except make nice coats or something

What have we ever done for the Carribbean monk seals? Except kill them all.

[FlyingJesus]

My point is we owed them no favours, and can do as we wish

[Technologic]

What has a Caribbean monk seal ever done for humanity? Except make nice coats or something
They fed us for a while.

[Dan2nd]

Actually BUGS are the dominant species especially the nasty buggers such as army ants which can literally plow through entire villages like they weren't there eating human and animal alike without any care for reprecussions

But also if kill every animal we will then go extinct our selves due to lack of food due to the food chain going out the window so really it is in our best intrest to not just kill everything.

What are you talking about Humans are the dominant species!

Here is a definition:


1. Exercising the most influence or control.
2. Most prominent, as in position; ascendant.
3. Genetics Of, relating to, or being an allele that produces the same phenotypic effect whether inherited with a homozygous or heterozygous allele.
4. Ecology Of, relating to, or being a species that is most characteristic of an ecological community and usually determines the presence, abundance, and type of other species.
5. Music Relating to or based on the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.


I think you'd find while insects are very important to the planet.. humans have the most influence and control over Earth if we wanted to we could launch a Nuke and wipe out every living thing on the planet. We have the power to cause other species to go extinct... We also control almost 85% of the earths land surface as it says below


Scientists have produced the first map that traces human influence on the natural world, and the numbers are big. Overall, 83 percent of the total land surface and 98 percent of the areas where it is possible to grow the world's three main crops—rice, wheat, and maize—is directly influenced by human activities.

[Virgin Mary]

That's not particularly a good reason, though. Unless you cheer on the aliens in War of the Worlds et al.

[Niall!]

Awww poor things

[N-Dubz]

What has a Caribbean monk seal ever done for humanity? Except make nice coats or something
no animal at all does anything for humanity really - but that dosn't give us the right to kill them all :S
what have they ever done TO us is the real question isnt it.. why should we sit there and kill them all, they do nothing to us to give us the right to make a "coat" out of them.

[FlyingJesus]

Nothing says we can't though

[PaintYourTarget]

Nothing says we can't though
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2008/01/13/GREENPEACE_wideweb__470x300,0.jpg
People with a fabulously thuper ship say you can't!

[N-Dubz]

Nothing says we can't though

oh but it does!
if you harm an indangered species you can get arrested for it thank you :)
and im sure you wouldnt want anyone making a coat out of you.

[FlyingJesus]

oh but it does!
if you harm an indangered species you can get arrested for it thank you :)
and im sure you wouldnt want anyone making a coat out of you.

They obviously didn't get arrested because the whole lot of them are dead lol, and no but I'm a sentient creature and human skin coats aren't really in fashion anyway.

[Nain]

Course they don't care, but they will give the impression that they do. Giving all this "poor old seals" ********.
That was just, a really stupid comment to make.

Oh yeah who knew anything about Caribbean monk seals before this thread? Or that they even existed?
I didnt know, but it is a shame that they have been extinct


Seriously it's not a shame lol
Urm.. it is.

[N-Dubz]

They obviously didn't get arrested because the whole lot of them are dead lol, and no but I'm a sentient creature and human skin coats aren't really in fashion anyway.

you can get arrested if you get caught.
pete in celeb BB was wearing a coat made out of real animal fur and got fined + coat taken off him...;)

[Loser]

Actually BUGS are the dominant species especially the nasty buggers such as army ants which can literally plow through entire villages like they weren't there eating human and animal alike without any care for reprecussions

I picked up four ants from my garden, then I clapped my hands together and they all died. Gosh, they really are quite dominant!

Also, I can't imagine army ants could eat through full living animals, unless they're on the verge of death.


But also if kill every animal we will then go extinct our selves due to lack of food due to the food chain going out the window so really it is in our best intrest to not just kill everything.

Hence why extinction is bad. The fact of the matter is, most animals are only still alive because we like to eat them and/or they may have cure for human diseases. For example, the crocodile 'healing blood'.
Anyways, Carribean Monk Seal didn't taste nice, screw it.


That was just, a really stupid comment to make.

Explain, please. I'm dying to know what you object to!

[ideabox]

Maybe cloning the animals back in he future will bring them back! Don't lose hope people!

[Lubricant]

One of many animals to become extinct I suppose.

[RageAgainst]

I see no reason why there is an argument, a creature went extinct. Its bad, even if they had no purpose on earth. That comment is pretty stupid, because something like the population of a certain fish could go up, then they could overeat another type of fish. Its just unbalancing nature when you take out an animal from the foodchain.

[Monkwrestler]

I picked up four ants from my garden, then I clapped my hands together and they all died. Gosh, they really are quite dominant!

In groups of 3 or 4 they are nothing but in there thousands they are buggers but also it depends on species search up army ant (real one) and you will hate em
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=97591&page=1
But they don't get much things bigger because they have the common sense to run away =/.

[FlyingJesus]

I see no reason why there is an argument, a creature went extinct. Its bad, even if they had no purpose on earth. That comment is pretty stupid, because something like the population of a certain fish could go up, then they could overeat another type of fish. Its just unbalancing nature when you take out an animal from the foodchain.

GOD GOD WE RE DOOMED