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> (...) and a gorilla used his hands to tell humans the story of how he became an orphan. This is touching. Deeply.
by woliveirajr 10y ago
> (...) and a gorilla used his hands to tell humans the story of how he became an orphan.
This is touching. Deeply.
- brut 10y agoThe last pair of great auks had hidden themselves on a huge rock in the northern Atlantic. In 1844, a trio of Icelandic bounty hunters found them in a crag, incubating an egg. Two of the hunters strangled the adults to get to the egg, and the third accidentally crushed its shell under his boot. Without being too cynical, that exemplifies part of Human Nature in a nutshell.
- tscs37 10y agoWith only one living member of a species left and the egg, I doubt the species would have survived for much longer without humans.