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Steller's Sea Cow

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The reading passage tries to give some reasons to clarify the extinction of a huge marine mammal which is famous as Steller's sea cow while the professor on the lecture looks at this concept through a different lens and tries to dismiss all of them. First of all, the reading mentions that overhunting by native Siberian could be considered as one major theory causing their extinction mainly because Steller's sea cows could be considered as a good source of food. However, the professor on the lecture brings up the fact that the Steller's sea cow was an extremely huge animal; as a result, by hunting a couple of them, the native Siberian could support their food needs for one month; therefore, Steller's sea cow’s extinction was not related to people's

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