

Towards the end of _Avatar_ , we see a lion turtle grant Aang the ability to
energy bend. He telepathically says that he's the last of his kind. So at
first, I thought maybe there was some natural disaster that wiped them all
out, and then _Legend of Korra_ came out where it was revealed there were
hundreds of them. They were also fairly solitary.

Then it was revealed that the humans wiped them out. So how did the biggest
creatures in the _Avatar_ universe, able to support entire cities and
ecosystems, allow themselves to be wiped out by people who they gave the
bending to? even if they could throw lightning at it, I hardly think that
would kill it. There were also flying ones( the lion turtles associated with
air) and ones that could dive underwater. if this is that case why didn't they
just fly heighter/ dive underwater?


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How were the lion turtles driven to near-extinction?