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JlM posted...

I went to trivia night on Wednesday and one of the questions was 'what caused passengers pigeons to go extinct'. I wanted to put humans but was overruled in favor of house cats.

We still got second, but that six point question would have tied us for first.

Hah, what the hell? As bad as cats are for native species, who would think they'd do more damage than humans?

I'm reading a book right now that describes how people would light sulfur under the pigeons' roosts at night and then come in the morning to collect the bodies or devise huge sky nets to catch and kill the swarm of birds. Mass torture of passenger pigeons in new ways seemed to become its own sport.