What a heartbreaking story, you told it so well and was so informative to listen too. Reminds me of the Tasmanian Tiger with the paralles of the last indivudal passing in a zoo like environment. So glad I came across your channel, I just love the whole theme behind it to preserve the memory of extinct animals. This really resonates with me becauese I've always had a sadness in my heart for those incredible species lost through Eearth's hitory and especially those in recent human times. The best thing we can do is live on their memory and legacy through content just like this. Looking forward to seeing your channel grow!
🥺 I'm glad you did this about Martha. I was at the Smithsonisn once and saw her. I would have thought there would have been a huge display talking about her, but it was just her looking faded, I guess from all the lights shown on her for a hundred years, and her name. I don't know if they even show her any more. I hope they do, it was a highlight of my going there. I keep hoping somehow, some way, that a flock of Passenger Pigeons will be discovered somewhere. Maybe they were blown off course to the Amazon forest and are happily eating tropical fruits and flying around? 🥹
@@ZomBeeNature I didn’t think about her being faded from the light of the display, that’s interesting! And pretty sad. :( I would love to think that there’s a small flock out there somewhere - I catch myself looking up, hoping to see one. Hopefully that the mourning dove isn’t actually a mourning dove!
@@GoneButNotForgottenFiles-ql9iy I see there is a color picture of her from 2015 on her Wikipedia page, and I think I was misremembering her. It was late in the day just before the museum closed and the lighting was pretty bad with them trying chase people out. I didn't know what color she was supposed to be but thought she would be redder underneath and maybe red or purplish on her head or neck. So the combination of bad lighting and everything made me misremember her as more grey and colorless, but she wasn't. Just not reddish the way I imagined. The Wikipedia page also says she is on display with a gorilla skull (?) now until 2025, so people can still see her for a while. Yeah, I hear a Mourning Dove and it always seems to be alone, and I wonder if maybe it's not a Mourning Dove. 🤔
@@ZomBeeNature Well, if I remember correctly, it was the males that had the brightly-colored chest feathers. Females’ were more on the lighter orange side. ^^
@@anthonyj7989 Oof, yeah a LOT of species were lost in Australia and the surrounding islands. :( It’s cool that my video reached that far across the globe though! Ty.
What a heartbreaking story, you told it so well and was so informative to listen too. Reminds me of the Tasmanian Tiger with the paralles of the last indivudal passing in a zoo like environment. So glad I came across your channel, I just love the whole theme behind it to preserve the memory of extinct animals. This really resonates with me becauese I've always had a sadness in my heart for those incredible species lost through Eearth's hitory and especially those in recent human times. The best thing we can do is live on their memory and legacy through content just like this. Looking forward to seeing your channel grow!
🥺 I'm glad you did this about Martha. I was at the Smithsonisn once and saw her. I would have thought there would have been a huge display talking about her, but it was just her looking faded, I guess from all the lights shown on her for a hundred years, and her name. I don't know if they even show her any more. I hope they do, it was a highlight of my going there.
I keep hoping somehow, some way, that a flock of Passenger Pigeons will be discovered somewhere. Maybe they were blown off course to the Amazon forest and are happily eating tropical fruits and flying around? 🥹
@@ZomBeeNature I didn’t think about her being faded from the light of the display, that’s interesting! And pretty sad. :( I would love to think that there’s a small flock out there somewhere - I catch myself looking up, hoping to see one. Hopefully that the mourning dove isn’t actually a mourning dove!
@@GoneButNotForgottenFiles-ql9iy I see there is a color picture of her from 2015 on her Wikipedia page, and I think I was misremembering her. It was late in the day just before the museum closed and the lighting was pretty bad with them trying chase people out. I didn't know what color she was supposed to be but thought she would be redder underneath and maybe red or purplish on her head or neck. So the combination of bad lighting and everything made me misremember her as more grey and colorless, but she wasn't. Just not reddish the way I imagined. The Wikipedia page also says she is on display with a gorilla skull (?) now until 2025, so people can still see her for a while.
Yeah, I hear a Mourning Dove and it always seems to be alone, and I wonder if maybe it's not a Mourning Dove. 🤔
@@ZomBeeNature Well, if I remember correctly, it was the males that had the brightly-colored chest feathers. Females’ were more on the lighter orange side. ^^
@@GoneButNotForgottenFiles-ql9iy I'm sure you are right.
I am from Australia and sadly Martha’s story is not unique. I think you were wise not to describe Passenger pigeons, but talk about Martha’s life.
@@anthonyj7989 Oof, yeah a LOT of species were lost in Australia and the surrounding islands. :( It’s cool that my video reached that far across the globe though! Ty.
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