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What is the difference between extinct and extirpated?

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More commonly, species become extinct because the area that they inhabit shrinks. ... If these species still exist in other habitats, then their disappearance from the shrinking habitat is a case of extirpation. If they are the last of their kind, then their disappearance is extinction.

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