UKs extinct species
There is a list below of the UK’s 492 extinct species. Well call me uncaring but of that list most of the things on it, well, I’m quite glad they have gone.
I don’t fancy walking around the woods of Nottingham and coming across a bear or a wolf or a greater mouse eared bat. I don’t like mice or ears. The “minutest diving beetle” became extinct in 1908, well yes, being the minutest it was just an accident waiting to happen wasn’t it? And who misses the “tawny earwig” that died out in 1930?
The “Agiile Frog” that died out probably thought itself cleverer than it was at jumping and fell off a few too many rocks, it shouldn’t have been showing off and the “scarce swallowtail” did exactly what it was supposed to do. It became scarce and then extinct.
Seems to me that the UK’s extinct species was just natural selection and a rather good one at that.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257081/The-492-native-species-driven-extinction.html
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