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Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men "frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them."

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[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Sucks enough reading about it, I’m surprised you would want to actually watch them being driven to extinction so much.

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