how did dodo birds become extinct?

Question: how did dodo birds become extinct?

Asked by hlh606 to Laura, Lily, Mark, Paul, Sarah on 22 Jun 2010 in Categories: General.
- Lily Asquith answered on 21 Jun 2010:
  
  Human beings introduced foreign species to their lands and they detsroyed their nests and killed them all 🙁
- Mark Roberts answered on 21 Jun 2010:
  
  Although the dodos were easy to catch, their meat was not that tasty; their rapid decline was probably due less to hunting, and more to the fact that the dogs, cats, rats and pigs, introduced to Mauritius, destroyed the dodos’ eggs and habitat. By 1680 the bird was extinct.
  
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- Laura Maliszewski answered on 22 Jun 2010:
  
  I didn’t know, so I looked it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
  
  It looks like people killed a lot of them but they had other predators too, and some died in a big flood.
- Sarah Bardsley answered on 22 Jun 2010:
  
  Dodos lived on the uninhabited island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. When humans arrived in the 17th century they brought animals like pigs with them which destroyed the nests of the birds. They had no natural predators before people arrived and apparently were fearless of people, willing to walk right up to them. I think they were also killed by humans to eat although I’m not sure they tasted very nice. So the dodo became one of the first species to become extinct as a direct impact of humans.
- Paul Roche answered on 22 Jun 2010:
  
  They were hunted to extinction by humans. Fat, slow, tasty (the dodo, not the humans…well, not all of them anyway).
  
  I always like to think of them as being like an early version of the chicken nugget…but someone ate all the nuggets…

Question: how did dodo birds become extinct?

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