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ReallyNeedNewShoes t1_je7fh7a wrote

cool that's not what extinction means

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_music_mongrel t1_je7o7mq wrote

They were extinct in India specifically. They still existed elsewhere. A species can be locally extinct or extinct in the wild while still technically existing

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jeho22 t1_je89bz4 wrote

My dog just left my living room and is now in the garage. Is it safe to say that dogs are now extinct in my living room?

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_music_mongrel t1_je8ac1z wrote

That would be migration

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jeho22 t1_je8bjmf wrote

OK... if I have an indoor cat, and an outdoor cat, and the indoor cat dies... indoor cats are now extinct in my house, yes?

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be a brat. But I feel that using this term, that has historically been used to represent the end of a species forever, in this way that focuses on regional populations instead, will only degrade the seriousness of 'extinction' to the public in general. Pushing extinction this way in social media will only dull people's reaction to it in the long run. And there's already a word for what this is trying to do anyway, extirpation. But people on social media don't know that word, so well here we are ;)

Call it regional extinction, or locally extinct, and we'll all on the same page at least.

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Blaze___27 t1_jeakdm8 wrote

and after getting new shoes please study about the topic before commenting about it

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Hillz44 t1_je82py1 wrote

“This word… I do not think it means what you think it means”

Edit: Princess Bride quote, people

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jeho22 t1_je8agxh wrote

It used to be accepted that extinction of a species occurred with the death of the last member of that spices that represented a chance of reproduction in the wild. That being said, definitions of words change over time, same as trends and social norms. Things just change. And we eventually rewrite the definitions to accommodate that.

I don't think that it is particularly wrong to say an animal can be extinct in one region, while existing in another, but it it most definitly confusing to somebody who uses the traditionally accepted definition of extinct. It's much more concise to say that cheetahs disappeared entirely from the region, and only approximately 100 of their particular subspecies exist in the wild somewhere else. In fact, I would say that using the word 'extinct' in the way it is used in this post is most likely intentionally missleading- tho I appreciate that it is probably being done so to bring attention to an issue that I also believe needs to be taken more seriously be humanity on the whole.

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HauntingSamurai t1_je9mo7a wrote

The word extirpated is specifically used for "not here anymore but exists elsewhere". So yes, extinct isnt tbe correct wording here. Extinction still means that they're all gone

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