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Humans Have Caused Hundreds Of Extinctions

Q: How many animals have gone extinct due to human causes?
Adikan Wiering

Grade 6

Sennett Middle School

A: Stanley Temple, a professor of wildlife ecology at UW-Madison, says 83 mammals, 151 birds, 22 reptiles, 35 amphibians and 93 fish have definitely gone extinct since 1500.