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No one present seems to have recorded that.

The enthusiastic foraging of them by 16th century Dutch sailors may have been due to desperation rather than any particular appreciation. They were likely much thinner than the plump birds imagined by European artists (who had never visited Mauritius).

The reason for their demise was that they had few natural predators until the island was colonized. Their slow reproduction rate was not appreciated until it was too late.

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