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NickB79

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15. Humans wiped out so much megafauna

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Tue Nov 29, 2022, 03:48 PM

Nov 2022

It saddens me so much to think where I live in the Midwest could have been like the Serengeti if not for humans hunting the mammoths and slothes to death.

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