1. Comment #44565 by Nails on May 25, 2007 at 4:42 am

very sad news.
Lets hope we can save the species outside of captivity.

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2. Comment #44589 by MiloC on May 25, 2007 at 5:11 am

How sad indeed. Here in MT we have many wild animals including wild cats like mountain lions, bobcats, and linx to name a few. We also have grizzly and just last week some bear enthusiast was severly mauled by a grizzly outside of Glacier Park. The man was seeking out the grizzly for some kind of study. The irony is that now the grizzly will have to be hunted down and destroyed. Sometimes even out best and noblest efforts work against us.

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3. Comment #44635 by konquererz on May 25, 2007 at 6:01 am

Would love to see this beautiful animal come back from extinction, but at only 120 left in the world, that seems pretty grim. Yet another species relegated to the history books for our children. What a shame.

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4. Comment #44821 by Axulus on May 25, 2007 at 10:47 am

To play a sort of devil's advocate here, why is it that we are so sad, angry, think it is immoral etc. when an entire species goes extinct? Doesn't each individual life form that is not an exact copy have a unique DNA code? If so, and we don't feel the same outrage when that life form with the unique DNA eventually dies, why do we feel so outraged when a group of life forms having much of their DNA code closely in common goes extinct? What is so unique about a particular species that is not also true of an individual with its own unique DNA sequences? Is it only because we feel emotional about it, because we don't get to enjoy the species for our own pleasure any more, because it might harm our ecosystem and thus harm us? Or is there something more to it? How about the 98% of all species that ever existed that have gone extinct? Why should we be outraged when such species extinction is a normal part of nature? Is it because we feel partly responsible? Aren't we also part of nature as well? Nature created us in the first place, thus, it is nature destroying part of itself, which has occurred though out the history of life.

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