Homocide in america from last weekends Los Angeles Times festival of books. We wrap up at 11 00 with a Panel Discussion on cspans latest book, first ladies. That happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Pulitzer prizes were awarded this last weekend and other Elizabeth Kolbert won. Her book, the sixth extinction. The and this one will be the most devastating. Sheer he is here she is now on booktv. [applause] thank you very much. I, tomorrow, am very impressed that such a large number of people are here on a friday night, and i really appreciate it. So thanks very much for being here. I want to start by introducing you to this fellow on the screen who is a hawaiian crow, otherwise known as an alala. Know he looks loot like an ordinary crow but there are actually significant differences of his beak is thicker and his legs are thicker and the Hawaiian Islands used to have six species of crows and they probably diverge from the crows that we find on the mainland u. S. At least several hundred th
Hawaiian islands used to have several species of crows an they probably die diverge from those in the u. S. At least 700,000 years ago. So this is in a lot of ways a lot like the story of darwins finches where an animal arrived on, obviously, were not sure how exactly. But in very small numbers, and then species in different niches and able to survive in different habitat. But the difference is that in the case of the hawaiian crows most of the species died out after the first humans arrived, so whereas galapagos not inhabited till europeans arrived in hawaii, sea fairers arrived 1500 years ago. And already they brought with them a species like rats like the pacific rat that either outcompeted or potentially just ate up the young and the eggs of these crows so most of the species were already gone by the time europeans arrived. This is the last species that survived in to modern times. And it is native to the big island, island of hawaii and its been under terrible pressure both from h
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