Birds!

Not my favorite class of animal (let's just put it this way - we skipped the aviary at the San Diego Zoo, and that was only thing we skipped. Well, that and the reptile room, but only because we've been to the reptile room in Dallas and New York and Pittsburgh about a million times).

But I'm still upset that this bird, the Alaorta Grebe (which sounds like an awesome Swedish band), is extinct. And, of course, it's extinct because of deforestation and predatory, invasive, non-native species. I know it's not that pretty, but it's still really weird and cool looking! Honestly, most animals are really weird and cool looking - especially the endangered ones. Come on, world, can't we get it together and stop killing everything?

[Image thanks to BBC]