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Matt Muccia
10/27/98
When a species of an animal or plant becomes extinct, it ceases to exist on earth. This may seem like a very obvious statement, but it is important to remember exactly what "endangered" means and what a threatened species is in danger of becoming. There are many species today who are close to extinction mainly because people throughout the years have hunted these animals like crazy. One of these species who w ....
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.... century the Basques of northern Spain hunted the Atlantic Right Whale for meat and whalebone. It was so named by English whalers because it was "right" for their purpose, easy to kill, peaceful and slow moving, feeding in shallow coastal water on plankton and krill, which is strained through its baleen plates. The Atlantic Right Whale was eliminated from the European coastal feeding areas by 1700, and whalers began pursuing it as far west as Newfoundland. The killin ....
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