IANS | New York | April 20, 2018 12:51 pm
Humble cow to be largest remaining mammal in 200 years: Study
The pace at which humans have been hunting down large mammals into extinction since the early ages, the largest remaining mammal in 200 years would be the domestic cow, warn researchers.
“It wasn’t until human impacts started becoming a factor that large body sizes made mammals more vulnerable to extinction,†said study co-author Kate Lyons from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the US.
“The anthropological record indicates that Homo sapiens are identified as a species around 200,000 years ago, so this occurred not very long after the birth of us as a species. It just seems to be something that we do,†Lyons said.
https://www.thestatesman.com/india/humble-cow-largest-remaining-mammal-200-years-study-1502624992.html
