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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 432860" data-attributes="member: 389">Or not.&nbsp; One of the odder, but generally ignored questions in history are examples of critters going extinct due to disease related collapses of the population. Significant collapses related to disease, or even over hunting of a species can create a scenario where the species goes extinct.&nbsp; Neither the last Passenger Pigeon or the last Tasmanian Tiger died due to being shot by a human.Just look at the population decline in bats due to white-nose syndrome (fungus infection).<a href="https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/white-nose-syndrome-killed-over-90-three-north-american-bat-species" target="_blank">https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/white-nose-syndrome-killed-over-90-three-north-american-bat-species</a>Unless bats somehow develop an immunity to fungus, there is certainly a strong downward trend in the population.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 432860, member: 389"] Or not. One of the odder, but generally ignored questions in history are examples of critters going extinct due to disease related collapses of the population. Significant collapses related to disease, or even over hunting of a species can create a scenario where the species goes extinct. Neither the last Passenger Pigeon or the last Tasmanian Tiger died due to being shot by a human. Just look at the population decline in bats due to white-nose syndrome (fungus infection). [URL]https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/white-nose-syndrome-killed-over-90-three-north-american-bat-species[/URL] Unless bats somehow develop an immunity to fungus, there is certainly a strong downward trend in the population. [/QUOTE]

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