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What was the reason they hunted dodo birds?

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What hunted DoDo-birds?

People


How did the Dodo birds becom exctict?

The dodo birds were hunted to extinction by people as they were used as a tasty snack.


Are dodo birds smart?

The dodo was easy to kill so man hunted it to extinction.


Which era did the dodo birds live in?

the dodo bird lived from 1598-1681 so by the 1700s they were extinct. The reason they died out was because around the time the European settlers came they had no food so they hunted out dodo birds and then just kept hunting them until they became extinct


Are their still dodo birds?

No, they became extinct a short while before the ice age, they were hunted by humans and the predators we introduced.


What is the dodo animal?

A Dodo was a bird that hunted until extinction.


How many dodo birds in us zoos?

DoDo birds are extinct (hence the name "DoDo")


Some information about extinct bird dodo?

Dodo birds didn't just go extinct by themselves they live in an area where there weren't any humans and they had no natural predators. So when man came the dodo birds were hunted for there oils and very tasteful flesh. They were completely wiped out within about one hundred years.


Where did the dodo birds come from?

The DODO birds, now extinct, came from a DODO bird egg!


Mention some special features of the dodo bird?

Dodo birds are: -fat (they were hunted for their meat) -featherry -big beak -very stupid - 2cm long legs -The name comes from Rican Dodo who found these type of birds in 1876 (he was a Mexican explorer)


Why are dodo bird an endangered species?

The Dodo bird is not an endangered species; it is an extinct species of bird. It is widely known that dodo birds became extinct because of human intervention; they were doing fine, minding their own business, until humans found these to be a good source of food and sustenance. So humans hunted them until their hearts' content, devoured their eggs and fed any remains to the hunting dogs. Dodo birds are extinct - period.


What was the reason people ate dodo birds?

they needed something to eat on the small island of Mauritius