The Cat That Caused an Extinction | True Story of Tibbles & the Stephens Island Wren
A single house cat changed history. In 1929, on New Zealand's remote Stephens Island, a cat named Tibbles — belonging to a lighthouse keeper — hunted a small, flightless bird to extinction. This isn't an urban legend. It's a shocking true story of how one domestic pet became the catalyst for wiping out the Stephens Island wren, a bird ...