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Ep. 385: A Wild New World

The MeatEater Podcast

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The Poisoning of Wild Animals in a Market Economy

Egg-picking. People, they're cooking for breakfast. They went after eggs. We had a penguin in the Northern Hemisphere and we completely wiped it out by the 1840s. With a low population turnover like that, just like the hawk with its one egg, I mean, that makes certain creatures more susceptible to extinction than those like passenger pigeons or bison.

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