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Ep. 385: A Wild New World

The MeatEater Podcast

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The Passenger Pigeon Story

The last passenger pigeon Martha died in 1914 hardly any newspapers ran an obituary about her death. "We all ought to be happy that the passenger pigeon decided not to stick around with us," one newspaper said. There were, of course, billions of them and people knew what they were doing by slaughtering them on their nests.

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