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Originally Posted by WilliamJenningsBryan
Take your foul wind somewhere else heathen. It is only mass extinction that occurs in a brief period of time and it is usually because of some external event. Go check your facts, even the neo-Darwinists are not sure how all this happens.
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Ah, but we are not talking about the eruption of a supervolcano nor the extinction of a staggering number of species--this is a predator/prey relationship we are talking about. First, it was entirely fearless of people
1, second, it was not only flightless, but also possessed few, if any defences aside from pecking with its beak.
Combine these two factors with the introduction of a predator by the Europeans and you have yourself a newly extinct species on your hands in a very short amount of time.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
As with many animals evolving in isolation from significant predators, the dodo was entirely fearless of people, and this, in combination with its flightlessness, made it easy prey.
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Scientists pinpoint dodo's demise. BBC News (2003-11-20).