Comic #4793: song

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Panel 1: "Prior to the arrival of Europeans, there were four species of the genus Moho in Hawaii."

Panel 2: "Due to introduced predators, habitat loss, hunting, and disease, they died off during the 19th and 20th century."

Panel 3: "The last known member of the genus was a male Moho braccatus, who died in 1987."

Panel 4: "There is a recording of this bird, near the end of his life, singing a mating song to no ear that can hear."

Panel 5: "I can't help but wonder if one day we'll make ourselves an endangered species."

Panel 6: "And some dread morning there will be a last man."

Panel 7: "Singing our mating song to a mateless earth…"

Panel 8: "I'm a good liiiiiiistener with noooo credit card deeeeeeebt…"

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