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What long-gone bird often completes the phrase Dead as a?
Dodo
What is exinction?
That's when a species or group of species no longer exists. The Dodo bird, for example, has gone extinct in recent history because all of them died out.
Info about the dodo bird?
The Dodo bird was a flightless bird, (unable to fly) and was discovered by explorers. The explorers told everybody about these birds and how easy to kill they were. They were easy to kill because they had never encountered humans before and did not know what to do. The explorers killed the birds, until they were all gone. In other words they were hunted to extinction.
What kind of animals lived in the 1800s?
The same kind of animals that live now, except for those who have gone extinct, like the dodo bird.
What is the origin of the phrase dead as a dodo?
The saying "dead as a dodo" came from the fact that the dodo became a symbol of extinction of a species. Within 70-90 years of the dodo being discovered, it had been hunted and preyed to extinction. The saying "dead as a dodo" had a finality about it - it was irreversibly, undeniably dead, and there was no hope.
Animals that have gone extinct last 100 years?
A lot. Dodo bird Beijing dolphin Spins macaw Black rhino Black faced honey creeper
How many animals are alredy extinct?
It has been estimated that 1 to 4 billion species of animals have already gone extinct. Some animals that have gone extinct are the American Mastodon, Dire Wolf, Florida Spectacled Bear, and the Dodo bird.
What did the dodo bird do?
Little is know for sure about the habits and appearance of the dodo. However it is known that they were particularly clumsy and flightless making them very easy to catch and kill.
How the dodo become extinct?
The dodo bird became extinct because it was adapted to an ecosystem that had few predators. When humans began development on their island (Mauritius), the birds were rapidly decimated by hunting and by new predators (dogs, rats). In less than 80 years, their entire population was gone.
How many dodo birds existed?
The dodo bird is extinct, so there are no species left. When they did exist, the dodo bird was a single species of flightless, 3 foot tall, fruit eating bird that lived on Mauritius Island in the Indian Ocean. The defenseless birds were overhunted by sailors and introduced predators, such as pigs, cats, and dogs, and their nests were raided by macaques and rats. That, along with deforestation, led to their extinction shortly before 1700.
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Where is the dodo birds environment?
they lived in strange places and are believed to have gone to extinction because of European settlers
