Assertion: carolina parakeet | /r/CapableOf | go extinct
Facets:
value: in 1918
type: TEMPORAL
value: rapidly
type: MANNER
value: as quickly as it did
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Scientists cannot even say why the Carolina parakeet went extinct, though deforestation, disease, persecution by farmers and competition from honeybees are all possibilities.
text: These cases offer sobering insight into how quickly humans are capable of decimating a species; the Carolina parakeet, Lalueza tells Mandelbaum, likely went extinct within “the order of [a] few decades.
text: It went extinct roughly 100 years ago.
text: This finding of range size, however, may help partially explain why the Carolina parakeet went extinct as quickly as it did, as populations with smaller range sizes are more vulnerable to extinction (Payne & Finnegan, 2007).
text: The Carolina parakeet was once common across the eastern United States, but about 100 years ago it rapidly went extinct, leaving behind many mysteries.
text: We don't know why it went extinct, and we don't know how it got to North America in the first place.
text: The Carolina parakeet was one of only two parrots native to the U.S., but it went extinct in 1918, when the last surviving individual died at the Cincinnati Zoo.