“This is an exciting year ... witnessing a population on the brink of extinction exhibit signs that it might actually make it, that it might have a fighting chance.”
Chris Slay
“If you have lots of small isolated populations, each one of them is more vulnerable to local extinction.”
Brendan Kelly
“He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.”
Rabbi Hillel
“The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.”
Will Cuppy
“In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.”
Samuel Beckett
“They were thought to be extinct after 1944.”
David Luneau
“HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.”
Ambrose Bierce
