The Extinct Animals The Ancient Romans and Greeks Saw

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  @ExtinctZoo · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @StinginqNettle · 1 year ago

  I like how this video goes &quot;The ancient greeks hunted this animal but respected it, representing it in art and literature!&quot; and then &quot;The romans captured thousands every day, starved them nearly to death, put them in pits to kill the poor and be killed by the rich for entertainment! This may have contributed to it&apos;s extinction!&quot;

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  @ggast82 · 2 years ago (edited)

  When Aristotle wrote about lions attacking people, he stated that the lions (not the people) had bad dental health meaning they could not hunt proper prey any more

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  @MorningMoebius · 2 years ago

  A tiger that primarily hunted deer? Makes alot of sense why the Caspian Tiger was so fast and had good stamina. Would’ve been a truly scary beast to see in the forest.

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  @leo99991 · 2 years ago

  Pretty sad Caspian tiger and barbary lion extinction. They survived both Greece and Rome, only to be wiped out by other humans.

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  @MystifiedBeef · 2 years ago

  I’d like a video on what extinct animals the Aztecs and Mayans saw

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  @Arigriphantua · 2 years ago

  You got it reversed. The lions didn&apos;t prey upon people who were elderly or had bad dental hygiene. Lions with bad dental hygiene or who were elderly preyed on the people.

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  @mayoite160 · 2 years ago

  Really depressed hearing about the Arabian ostrich and Caspian tiger, which went extinct only in the past few decades or last &nbsp;century :&apos;(

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  @jigarkapadia434 · 2 years ago

  Should&apos;ve mentioned The Atlas Bears, the only modern Bear in Africa that the Romans used gladiator games.

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  @Saulo_Aeolos · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2JAUDd18E&amp;t=284">4:44</a> <br>Interesting fact: Just like Poland is the last refuge for the European Bison, it was the same for the Aurochs too. The last Aurochs to ever exist was a lonely female who died in 1627 in Jawtorók forest, Kingdom of Poland; King Sigismund III honoured her death by covering her horns with gold. The skull was kept as a national treasure in the city till the Swedes invaded the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during The Deluge Wars and was looted by the Royal Army of Sweden. Nowadays a monument in Jaktorók tells the story and the skull is currently located in Stockholm.

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  @LiminalMindsQuizzes · 2 years ago

  Next, please do extinct animals the ancient Chinese and Japanese saw.

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  @aKalishnacough · 2 years ago

  There&apos;s actually good evidence to suggest that these lions and tigers definitely were more aggressive towards humans than they are today. Lions and tigers over thousands of years have learns that humans are not food and are meant to be feared. These ancient cats had very little exposure to humans thousands of years ago and hadn&apos;t quite figured out that we&apos;re not food, yet.

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