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Can we stop this childish games, please? Wherever humanity appears large mammals and birds dissappeared, either directly or indirectly. In this case by predation ofthe food source. And this whole "what extinction, by what humans" is the "what Armenians" of developmental history of our species. The whole rhetoric device is just so boring, the dialog tree looped. It's just a sound of denial now, not really worth engaging, a noise disclosing the bunkered in mental state of the producer. It never added much to the conversation to begin with but now it's just..

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.abb2313

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We, collectively, are probably best served when asking questions doesn't result in an unrelated harangue.

In this case, the poster is asking about the claim that the orcas were hunted to be consumed by humans. You didn't provide any evidence that this is the case---and in fact suggested a reasonable alternative---so I suspect you also either question or deny that claim as well.

I think you've fallen into a trap. You've allowed the very people you are trying to rail against here to convince you that anyone asking questions is an enemy of yours and worthy of your derision.

As in every open source forum were people "demand" code, games and features-and where no effort was made to show a effort was made :"Linklist of reading up is welcome!"

I didn't object to the knowledge you shared. I objected to your gross mischaracterization of the person's question and ignorance of the context in which it was asked.

Sure but the gp was asking if we killed them off directly as opposed to killing off there food source.

I'm well aware of the anthropogenic effects on various animal populations especially megafauna, but it's a particular kind of claim to lump an oceanic apex predator with a flightless bird relegated to its island environment. Thanks for the paper, I'll be giving it a thorough read!

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