When Martha the passenger pigeon died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo, it marked the end of an era. Once the dominant species in eastern North America, passenger pigeons roamed the forests in giant flocks up to several billions of individuals for tens of thousands of years before their numbers were snuffed out. The sheer […]
When Martha the passenger pigeon died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo, it marked the end of an era. Once the dominant species in eastern North America, passenger pigeons roamed the forests in giant flocks up to several billions of individuals for tens of thousands of years before their numbers were snuffed out. The sheer […]
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