What plants in nature are extinct because they are "too delicious"?

Man's mouth is called the grave of animals. Many animals and plants have been extinct by human beings, and many of them are on the verge of extinction. Some of them are endangered as Chinese herbal medicines.

Wild animals and plants such as pangolin, spotted donkey (zebra-like), china rhino, herring, owl xiāo parrot (a parrot that can't fly), elephant turtle, shark (one third of the species is endangered), Yangtze swordfish, herring, wind eel, giant salamander (turtle), great auk (Arctic penguin).

Here is a description of the species: spotted donkey (scientific name: Equus quagga): it lives in southern Africa and was hunted by European immigrants and locals in the19th century because of its bright fur and delicious meat. Finally, domestication failed and it became extinct on 1883.

Note: Reinhold Rau of the University of Cape Town re-bred the spotted donkey 20 16 in 30 years.

Great auk (scientific name: Pinguinus impennis) originally had penguins in the Arctic. They live in Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands and other places. Because meat, eggs and feathers are precious, they can't fly, walk slowly and are not afraid of human beings. They were killed by humans in the early19th century and became extinct in 1844.

Strigophers are flightless parrots that look like owls and live in southern New Zealand, Stewart and other islands. Delicious, it's Maori food. Mammals such as dogs and cats have been killed since the European colonists reclaimed land for grazing, and now they are extremely endangered species.

Elephant bird (scientific name: Aepyornis), also known as ostrich, was once the largest bird in the world, with a height of more than three meters and a weight of half a ton. Elephant eggs weigh as much as seven ostrich eggs. Living in the swamp forest of Madagascar, eating plants. /kloc-in the 0/7th century, the population of Madagascar increased by more than ten times, and the habitat of elephant birds was destroyed. The last time people hunted elephant birds was in 1649.

The fear bird (scientific name: the fear bird family) is a huge flightless bird. It is about 3.6 meters high and weighs about 250 kilograms. It feeds on leaves, seeds and fruits of plants. There are nine species of flightless fear birds living in New Zealand. Died from human hunting and farming, and it is estimated that it became extinct in the 1950s of 19.

There are 9 species of Galapagos tortoise (scientific name: Chelonoidis galapagoensis), and the most famous individuals are lonely George and Diego tortoise. Eat cactus and fruit, pineapple, water fern, leaves and grass. Distributed in 9 small islands of Galapagos Islands. The original figure was around 250,000. Whalers and pirates in 18 and 19 centuries often caught elephant turtles as food on board. By 1996, there are only fifteen thousand left.

China rhino is the collective name of three rhinoceros populations (Indian rhinoceros, Sumen rhinoceros and Java rhinoceros) that once existed in China. Rhinoceros horn is a precious Chinese herbal medicine, and its skin and blood can also be used as medicine. Yizhen has been widely hunted in China since ancient times, and became extinct in 1922.

The dodo (scientific name: Raphus cucullatus) is a kind of flightless and fast-running bird, weighing up to 23 kilograms. Living in Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island that feeds on trees and fruits, mice, cats, dogs and pigs became extinct in 168 1 year due to human activities.

Note: The meat of dodo is coarse, half-cooked, oily and not delicious. Some people say that it has been eaten and extinct, which is wrong.