extirpation
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California’s gray wolves were hunted and trapped to extirpation about 100 years ago, with the last documented wild wolf shot in 1924.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
Where species collapse does not occur, “climate change may result in large-scale mortality and population extirpation due to maladaptation of populations.”
From Scientific American ● May 5, 2023
Gray seals previously on the brink of extirpation in waters of New England now occupy some Massachusetts beaches by the hundreds.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2022
It’s either a survival technique to dodge humans or a sign that they are edging toward extirpation.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
The very opposite is naturally the result of the extirpation of the ovaries in women.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker
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