Whatever Happened to the Poor Old Dodo?

The poor old Dodo, it is a symbol of howfearlessly towards the sailors, completely unaware
destructive us humans can be, how utterlythat their intentions may not be entirely honorable.
obnoxious, vile and stupid we sometimes are. TheAnd of course they weren't, they butchered a
Dodo waddled it's way around the glorious islandfew for grub but luckily for the Dodo, it didn't
of Mauritius for God knows how long, content andtaste too good and so you would have thought
living the easy life. We know that it was athat the Dodo was safe.
flightless bird, its stumpy wings been quiteUnfortunately it wasn't, the arrival of humans on
incapable of lifting its plump, ungainly little body;Mauritius meant the introduction of dogs, pigs,
but this was a direct result of how easy its lifecats and rats; all of which the Dodo was
was on the island.completely unprepared for. The new arrivals had a
Scientists reckon that the Dodo's ancestor flewfield day with the defenseless Dodos while the
to the island but because of the lack of predatorshumans chopped down the forests which were
and dangers, the Dodo simply no longer neededthe natural habitat of the bird.
to fly, so it decided not bother with it, forgotIn little over one hundred years from it's initial
about it and evolved into a bird that could not fly.discovery the poor old Dodo was no longer in
Indeed, the Dodo seemed to have forgottenexistence. To compound the affront, the remains
everything about the world, including it's dangersof the last stuffed Dodo was destroyed in 1755
and perils.by the curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.
Indeed, when Portuguese sailors landed on theThe tragedy of the Dodo is a symbol and a
island towards the end of the sixteenth century,warning to mankind and the effect of our lifestyle
they dubbed the happy bird as Dodo because ofon our environment and our fellow inhabitants of
what they perceived as it's stupidity. It strolledour planet.