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Originally Posted by Kaze
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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Cited from: Scientists pinpoint dodo's demise. BBC News (2003-11-20). |
Your sources are so typical of LIEberal lies; they are always trying to blame human activity for some problem or alleged impending catastrophe. The so-called "predators" that the Europeans brought were domesticated animals that are typically not predatory (and I doubt that they brought any "pet" pythons along either). The dodo was also a large bird (typically weighting around 50 pounds) that reportedly tasted bad and had tough meat. No one was interested in eating them.
By your reasoning the chicken and turkey should also be extinct as they can not fly and only have a beak to defend themselves. There is also nothing much dumber than a chicken or a turkey (with the possible exception of some of the unsaved trash that post on this Godly forum). Your assertion that the dodo was "fearless" of people is pure speculation, there were no reports of it and there are no dodo's around to test that hypothesis.
What you did not do is thoroughly read and comprehend your own Wikipedia references. Had you done so you would have come across possibly the real cause of the dodo's extinction:
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The 2005 expedition's finds are apparently of animals killed by a flash flood; such mass mortalities would have further jeopardized an already extinction-prone species.
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