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[โ€“] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

People. The secret ingredient is people. Pretty much any large species of mammal (or bird) that went extinct in the past 10.000 years or so was hunted to extinction.