Dodo Had Surprisingly Keen Sense of Smell and Owl-Like Vision, New Study Reveals | Sci.News

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• Archimedes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And yet they neither saw nor smelled it coming.

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Like in other places, the sailors introduced non-native species into a closed ecosystem.

    they introduced other animals, including dogs, pigs, cats, rats, and crab-eating macaques, which plundered dodo nests and competed for the limited food resources.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo

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  • gedfromgont@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Almost like every single other species made extinct by humanity.

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  • a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    At some point they should have gotten the vibe from the delicious bbq smell…

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You cannot say they didn’t have an awareness in their way, ecocide is not done upon inert vessels for trauma.

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• Midnight1938@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sp they went extinct because they were eaten? Or was it something else?

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They went extinct because it was an affront to the economic-spiritual beliefs of the humans that had existential power over them.

    For these humans nature needed to reinforce a cosmology of good christian work ethic by presenting violent examples of the barbaric work ethic of beasts. The jungle must only reward tigers and never bonobos otherwise what has been the point of all our good christian guilt we have suffered?

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