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Turns out, dodos probably weren’t so daft after all

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By Vera Weisbecker, Andrew N. Iwaniuk, Sara Citron
| The New Daily Verified
The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years – wiped out within decades of humans arriving on its home island of Mauritius – but it lives on in the public imagination. This famous flightless bird has become a symbol of extinction. Its demise is often portrayed as almost inevitable: A supposedly foolish creature that naïvely approached the sailors who killed it. Early accounts even describe people holding a captured dodo and letting it cry out so others would wander over.
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Dodos probably weren't as stupid as historians made them out to be: new research

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By Vera Weisbecker, Andrew N. Iwaniuk, Sara Citron
| Phys.org Verified
Credit: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (2026). DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag123 The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, wiped out within decades of humans arriving on its home island of Mauritius, but it lives on in the public imagination. This famous flightless bird has become a symbol of extinction. Its demise is often portrayed as almost inevitable: a supposedly foolish creature that naïvely approached the sailors who killed it.
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Dodos probably weren’t as stupid as historians made them out to be: new research

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By Vera Weisbecker
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Sara Citron, CC BY The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, wiped out within decades of humans arriving on its home island of Mauritius, but it lives on in the public imagination. Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland helped popularise the image of the dodo as a foolish creature. John Tenniel This famous flightless bird has become a symbol of extinction. Its demise is often portrayed as almost inevitable: a supposedly foolish creature that naïvely approached the sailors who killed it.
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