Public Sympathy for Extinct Animals

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How do we react when hearing that animals are becoming extinct?

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Irish researchers tracked changes in tweets, and Wikipedia page visits before and after extinction of eight species.

They found that while tweets, retweets and posts on X relating to a species increased after its extinction, but this was only a short-lived phenomenon.

In contrast, visits to Wikipedia pages relating to an extinction had longer-lasting engagement.

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