Saturday, May 11, 2013

Extinct species


The Dodo was an endemic bird species of the Mascarene  archipelago. The species was extinct after the settlement of Reunion and Mauritius. The Dodo could not fly and as lot of species that evolve in isolation they were not afraid of humans. Moreover it represented a great supply of meat and became an easy prey. The hunting of the Dodo quickly lead the species to extinction. The last record of a sighting fo a Dodo is in 1662 on a small islet of Mauritius called Amber Island.  

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