note The actual cause is somewhat uncertain, but most scientists lean towards them having been wiped out by the invasive species that settlers introduced to the island. They can sometimes also act as Cloudcuckoolanders or The Fool.Ī case of Historical Downgrade, as recent research has deduced that dodos are actually smarter than they're stereotyped, presumed to have around the same average IQ as a pigeon and their main cause for extinction had nothing to do with them being Too Dumb to Live. One way of portraying comedic dodos is by featuring them as dim bulbs whose inability to fly leads to jokes at their expense. With their rather goofy-looking appearance, they eventually became a popular animal choice for jokes, leading to portrayals of them as silly in one way or another. However, their images were recorded in various books about animals and various tissue and bone fragments have been discovered on Mauritius in modern times. Due to their isolation, they were naive towards predators and were wiped out within a few decades of their discovery, so quick in fact they were believed to have been mythical for a time. If you look at a baby pigeon ◊ and depictions of the dodo side by side, you might discover some similarities. It is placed in the same family of birds as pigeons and doves (Columbidae). The dodo was a flightless bird that lived on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar that wasn't discovered until 1507.
One of these creatures is the dodo, which is kind of the poster-child when someone thinks of an extinct species. But while different kinds of dinosaurs are usually selected for prehistoric settings, there are a variety of other species of extinct animals that come to mind when thinking of the past. Many creatures have become extinct throughout Earth's history (it is estimated that 99% of all life that has ever existed on Earth is currently extinct).
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