The tragic bird life of the dodo bird, because of its delicious taste, was eaten extinct by pigs? The plump and greasy figure is just a figment of an extinct internet celebrity creature: the reason for the extinction of the dodo dodo is that people eat it? The meat of the dodo is actually not delicious and the domestic pig preys on it leads to the extinction of the dodo? Island disaster caused the dodo to disappear? Are dodos really round and rolling? The extinction of the dodo bird also brought a plant to the forefront?

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="46" > extinct internet celebrity creature: the dodo</h1>

When it comes to the island of Mauritius, most people will definitely think of the volcano and the dodo, the strange animal on the island, for the first time.

Although the dodo is extinct, it has left a very deep impression on people, especially the cute spherical figure, which is definitely the most eye-catching feature of the dodo.

The dodo has appeared in many film and television works, because of its fat body, the dodo is funny in these works, and it is also loved by people. The Toot Bird is probably the second most extinct Internet celebrity creature besides dinosaurs.

The exact time of extinction of the dodo has been questioned, but it is certain that the approximate extinction occurred between 1662 and 1715 AD.

Although the dodo has been extinct hundreds of years ago, the topic of the dodo is still unabated, leaving people with many mysteries. Today I will talk about the story of the dodo.

The dodo is luckier than the Stephen Island heterophyll, because the dodo survived centuries after being discovered by humans. The Stephen Island heterophyll was already extinct when it was discovered, the main reason is that the island keeper brought a cat when landing on the island, resulting in the rapid extinction of the Stephen Island heterophyll in more than ten years.

So what is the reason for the extinction of the dodo? Is it also because humans brought other beasts to the island that led to its extinction?

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="54" > the reason for the extinction of the dodo is that people eat it? </h1>

Many people believe that it is precisely because humans came to Mauritius Island and found that the taste of dodo birds is very delicious, so the dodo birds were eaten out of stock, leading to the extinction of the dodo birds.

This conjecture also became the mainstream theory of the cause of the dodo extinction.

Legend has it that in the late 1890s, a Dutch merchant ship called the Amsterdam inadvertently drifted to the island of Mauritius to escape a hurricane in the sea, which was also the first time humans landed on the island of Mauritius.

The crew encountered the dodo on the island, which was simply a large turkey, and the crew caught the dodo and roasted it, and found it to taste quite good.

In this way, the news of delicious dodos on the island of Mauritius is known to more and more people, people have come to the island to hunt for dodos, and dodos can only live every day to hide in Tibet, and finally hide and hide in the stomach of people, and the dodo is also extinct.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="60" > dodo meat is not really delicious</h1>

But this is not the case, and archaeologists have found the diary of a seafarer on the Amsterdam, in which he wrote that the dodo was not delicious, and the dodo was the most difficult meat he had ever eaten.

The meat of the dodo is fishier than the crocodile, thicker than the fiber of the beef, and the dodo has a lot of fat, and there is a strange taste, and I don't want to eat it after a few bites, it is simply difficult to swallow.

Seafarers engaged in ocean-going operations generally drift at sea for several months, their food on board is very poor, only pickled food or various fish, and sometimes even eat rotten food, fresh dodo birds are described by seafarers as the most difficult meat, which shows that dodo birds are really not delicious.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="64" > pigs predation lead to the extinction of the dodo? </h1>

Scientists have found a large number of domestic pig skeletons on the island of Mauritius, so the reason for the extinction of the dodo bird has added new evidence.

Some scientists believe that domestic pigs have drifted across Hayden Island with humans, mauritius originally did not have large mammals, and domestic pigs as omnivores did not have any natural predators, resulting in a surge in numbers.

Scientists have analyzed that domestic pigs that eat a large amount of food may often steal dodo eggs and prey on dodo birds, resulting in the gradual extinction of dodo birds.

And after humans came to Mauritius Island, they began to cut down a large number of trees and cultivate land, which also made the dodo bird lose its last living space, which is also one of the important reasons for the extinction of the dodo bird.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="69" > island disaster caused the dodo to disappear? </h1>

Decades ago, archaeologists uncovered new clues as to the cause of the dodo's extinction. A cave was found in the southeast of the island of Mauritius, in which a large number of bones of dodo and other animals were found.

However, there are no pigs in this cave, which shows that when the dodo ducks hid in the cave, the domestic pigs had not yet landed on the island with humans. It is possible that the dodo will become extinct after this event.

The reason why a large number of animals can hide in the cave together is likely to be a disaster such as an earthquake or a tsunami, so some people speculate that the island disaster caused the extinction of the dodo.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="73" > dodo really roll? </h1>

In the diary of the crew of the Amsterdam, archaeologists found a portrait of the dodo, which was completely different from the dodo in people's impressions, and the dodo on the diary was thin and even very slender, so why is the image of the modern dodo different from before?

Around 1990, scientists in Scotland had begun to measure the true weight of the dodo from the bones found, about 21 to 36 pounds. Therefore, the dodo is relatively large among birds, and according to the skeleton length of the dodo, the dodo is very well-proportioned and not obese.

Therefore, the image of the dodo drawn by the crew is accurate, the dodo is actually not fat, the reason why the image of the dodo is very fat now is because the painting style at that time liked to paint people or other animals to be plump, so the image of the dodo has been passed down to this day.

The plump and greasy figure is just a figment of people's imagination.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="81" > the extinction of the dodo bird and also put a plant on the brink of extinction? </h1>

Before humans came to mauritius, there was a plant on the island that covered a very wide area: the large cranial olive tree. Its fruit was also the main food of the dodo, and with the extinction of the dodo, the macrocephalus tree gradually withered and died, until around 1980, when only a dozen primitive tree species remained on the island of Mauritius.

Scientists have analyzed the relationship between the large cranial olive tree and the dodo bird may be dependent on each other, and the dodo swallows the fruit of the large cranial olive tree, so that it is fermented in the stomach and then excreted from the body, which can accelerate the rooting and germination of the fruit of the large cranial olive tree.

Because of the extinction of the dodo, it led to the endangerment of the large cranial olive tree. In the end, biologists found that not only dodo birds like the fruit of the large cranial olive tree, but local parrots and tortoises can also swallow the fruit of the macrocephalus tree, promoting seed germination.

Later, scientists found the real cause of the extinction of the large cranial olive tree, which is not directly related to the extinction of the dodo bird, but is related to humans.

Scientists have found that there are many parasites growing on the tree, these parasites are not native organisms, they are transmitted to this place by humans who landed on the island, and it is these invasive alien species that make the large skull olive tree endangered, and humans are the culprits behind it.

Although the dodo bird is extinct, the dodo bird has also sounded the alarm bell for human beings, and the task of protecting nature and protecting the ecological environment is a long way to go, and human beings must actively intervene in nature, otherwise more species will disappear permanently. The picture comes from the Network, and the intrusion must be deleted.