An introduction to the reasons and casues of the exctinction of the dod

The dodo was a fat flightless bird that was discovered by Spanish sailors on the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean at about 1600. It was supposedly extinct in 1662 (although many suggest it could have been around up to 30 years later). Such a rapid extinction can only have been caused by one thing: human intervention. The Dodo's stubby wings and heavy, ungainly body tell us that the bird was flightless. Moreover, its breastbone is too …

…for the rats to feast devastating the dodo population's ability to reproduce. They also ate much of the dodo's Island food although it was the eating of the dodo's eggs that ultimately killed the dodo accounting for their drop from a unique dominant Island species to extinction in just over 60 years: they became extinct because they were not able to compete with the new competition for food and the new predators introduced by the Europeans.