Recently Extinct Animals

Based on the clues, name these animals that have gone extinct in the last 500 years (or so).
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Last updated: August 19, 2014
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Similar to a zebra, but with stripes only on its head and shoulders
Quagga
Bird that gathered in flocks so large they blocked out the sun
Passenger pigeon
Ancestor of modern cattle
Aurochs
Striped, dog-like Australian carnivore
Thylacine
Giant pigeon native to Mauritius
Dodo
Looked like a penguin, but was more closely related to puffins
Great auk
Eurasian wild horse
Tarpan
Huge ostrich-like bird of New Zealand
Moa
Arctic-dwelling manatee relative
Steller's sea cow
Aquatic Chinese mammal declared extinct in 2006
Baiji
Popular (though inaccurate) myth states that a single cat drove it to extinction
Stephens Island wren
Extinct wild goat that has been the subject of cloning attempts
Pyrenean ibex
One of only two parrots native to the United States
Carolina parakeet
Nicknamed the "Lord God Bird"
Ivory billed woodpecker
African mammal sub-species declared extinct in 2011
Western black rhinoceros
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