to be fair
Since 1984, there have been no recorded sightings. This means only four Christmas Island shrews have been reported in over 120 years.
Not exactly like it was a thriving population
There can be thriving populations that just aren’t discovered because people don’t know how the populations functioned or because the landscape is so rugged it’s almost impossible to find them. Some birds have gone hundreds of years where people thought they were extinct.
It was thriving, until people introduced black rats in 1900. In just 8 years, they went from “extremely common all over the island” to thought extinct.
The death of birth always saddens me.
seems its like always either black rats or cats.
they also lost the bramble cay meloyms rodent in an island recently in one of the australian islands.
Always reminds me of this video when I hear the word extinct.
