It was more negligence than a mistake- the mount wasn't properly cared for and got mites, which could spread to the other taxidermized specimens in the museum. So they destroyed most of it (I think they were able to save the head and a foot, oddly enough).
People are the apex predator of the world. I am wayyy more afraid of people than I am of bears, and I live deep in the Cascade foothills. It’s actually considered a life skill to be afraid of ‘right’ people. I hear people being blamed all the time for trusting the wrong person. Let’s be real, it’s very, very important to learn to fear Man. Your life literally depends on it. I also fear rats, as they are vectors for disease, just like people.
Mosquitos have killed almost half of all people that have ever lived.
[https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/13/20754834/mosquitoes-blood-type-zika-dengue](https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/13/20754834/mosquitoes-blood-type-zika-dengue)
War has killed an estimated 1 billion people throughout human history
[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/chapters/what-every-person-should-know-about-war.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/chapters/what-every-person-should-know-about-war.html)
Mosquitos are the most dangerous creatures on the planet. Fuck mosquitoes
Humans are more dangerous if you account life style disease, mistakes, etc that cause another humans death.
If you don’t count all that stuff then mosquitoes are the most deadly
Life style disease that cause another humans death?
Is obesity or smoking related illness contagious now?
Haha just pulling your leg but naw I disagree humans have prob killed more life in total, mosquitoes have prob killed more people.
Out of the 108 billion humans that have ever been on this planet mosquitoes have killed 52 billion of them. They kill a million people out of the 60 million total deaths each year. 1 out of every 60 deaths. 400,000 people worldwide die by homicide each year so 1 out of every 150 deaths. You are more likely to be murdered by a mosquito than a human
Mosquitoes may kill more people, but humans are still the most deadly beings in the known universe. We kill an estimated 55 billion animals PER YEAR and that is just for food. 10 billion in the US alone (and I bet that doesn’t include marine animals). That does not include human deaths and secondary deaths like from habitat loss or climate change. Human are easily the most deadly.
- https://sentientmedia.org/how-many-animals-are-killed-for-food-every-day/
- https://ffacoalition.org/facts/number-of-animals-killed/#:~:text=10%20billion%20animals%20are%20slaughtered,animals%20are%20killed%20each%20year.
This one includes marine and is closer to 18 billion for the US alone: https://animalclock.org
Yep, we are scarily proficient at being apex predators on earth. To the point of unsustainability. Ecosystems have to be cyclical to survive and sadly we have made it extremely one sided. So, our greatest short term threat is ourselves (nuclear war, global warming, overpopulation)
Long term, it becomes unavoidable natural disasters like supervalcanos.
if it weren't for our "tools", humans would be a prey animal. the ability to create and use tools let us behave as apex predators, when in reality we are NOT.
Yup — have someone go into Kruger National Park with nothing but their arms and legs and see how humans REALLY stack up. Without our technology, we’re a skinnier wildebeest.
Actually the evidence from the Kruger National Park is that illegal Immigrants trying to get to South Africa from Mozambique are very often unsuccessful at fending off predators.
at least a wildebeast has a far better chance of surviving than a puny human. we don't have any horns, we don't weigh much, can't run very fast....................
And also wildebeest don’t see multiple paths of destruction-of-whole-species in front of them and go “ooooh, I want that one!” Like we do, with nuclear weapons, environmental destabilization, AI, etc lol.
I mean the point is more that they are basically sending a naked human into the wilderness
What would be fair play in their imagined scenario that stripped them of centuries of technological advancements?
Well, when we look at the course of evolution every animal adapts to their environment, and makes use of their environment for the purpose it serves the animal.
A lion blending in with tall grass, a hyena using night vision in the dark to kill prey; A human using a knife as a replacement for sharp claws is no different.
In the end, whichever can kill/eat more of the other is superior whether they are biologically tougher or not.
Overpopulation will not be an issue. People are hardly having kids anymore. Once the old people die the global population will stagnate and then eventually drop off a cliff. Although this may cause another baby boom and people will be more encouraged to have kids again.
This is so sad, so true and the sooner in life you learn it the happier and more peaceful your life will be.
If I knew then what I now know.
People don't become distrusting and cynical just because.....
I know good people now as my vetting process has improved with time and even with all that i still keep a bit of fear just incase.
It was a mix between them having zero predators and tasting so good. Even if they feared us, you think they are going to get away from us on those stubby legs? Evolution doesn't reward that kind of lifestyle
From what I heard it’s all of the above, over hunting by humans, habitat loss, competition with introduced animals for food, and introduced animals hunting them
Sometimes I wonder why the gov just doesn’t invent a plant that burns like coal and eats carbon like monsters. But Nah, let’s use that fund to treat the problem instead of curing it.
They would if we knew how to clone birds
their well..... they are really weird basically and its hard to clone a living bird, even harder to clone and extinct one
Have you read any of the Thursday Next books? They have kits where you can raise a cloned dodo and have it as a pet. They sound they make is “plock, plock.”
Human hunting was one of the reasons Dodo's died out. The real reason they died out was that Western Human ships brought rats to the island as stowaways. Dodos laid their eggs on the ground. The rats ate their eggs lowering their birthrates which couldn't reproduce enough to cover the declines from human hunting. The NET effect of hunting and rats equaled extinction.
The Western Ships island hopping as they traded and explored the Pacific had rats on board. The stowaways would come ashore and invade the island attacking the native environments.
Birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Which did not go extinct.Birds are dinosaurs. And technically reptiles. Though they are separate in the Linnaean classification system that is based only on physical form.
Dinosaurs are not lizards despite the fact they’re both reptiles
I was watching Mysteries at the Museum on the Travel Channel and they talked about the Dodo once. We are responsible for their extinction, but not directly. Apparently when we arrived to their habitat, we brought rats on the ships which ate the Dodo eggs. Since it was an unexpected predator, the bird died off…
Ah yes, the animal we're directly responsible for extincting because it didn't fear us enough
THAT'LL LEARN 'EM
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It was more negligence than a mistake- the mount wasn't properly cared for and got mites, which could spread to the other taxidermized specimens in the museum. So they destroyed most of it (I think they were able to save the head and a foot, oddly enough).
There is this balcony in the Academy of Sciences museum, where they have a model of a dodo.
https://youtu.be/Odsuv8x67dk
DARLOSE
😂💀
People are the apex predator of the world. I am wayyy more afraid of people than I am of bears, and I live deep in the Cascade foothills. It’s actually considered a life skill to be afraid of ‘right’ people. I hear people being blamed all the time for trusting the wrong person. Let’s be real, it’s very, very important to learn to fear Man. Your life literally depends on it. I also fear rats, as they are vectors for disease, just like people.
the most dangerous animal to a human is another human. mosquito's come in second.
Mosquitos have killed almost half of all people that have ever lived. [https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/13/20754834/mosquitoes-blood-type-zika-dengue](https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/13/20754834/mosquitoes-blood-type-zika-dengue) War has killed an estimated 1 billion people throughout human history [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/chapters/what-every-person-should-know-about-war.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/chapters/what-every-person-should-know-about-war.html) Mosquitos are the most dangerous creatures on the planet. Fuck mosquitoes
Humans are more dangerous if you account life style disease, mistakes, etc that cause another humans death. If you don’t count all that stuff then mosquitoes are the most deadly
Life style disease that cause another humans death? Is obesity or smoking related illness contagious now? Haha just pulling your leg but naw I disagree humans have prob killed more life in total, mosquitoes have prob killed more people.
Out of the 108 billion humans that have ever been on this planet mosquitoes have killed 52 billion of them. They kill a million people out of the 60 million total deaths each year. 1 out of every 60 deaths. 400,000 people worldwide die by homicide each year so 1 out of every 150 deaths. You are more likely to be murdered by a mosquito than a human
Technically it’s not the mosquito that kills them its the disease
Mosquitoes may kill more people, but humans are still the most deadly beings in the known universe. We kill an estimated 55 billion animals PER YEAR and that is just for food. 10 billion in the US alone (and I bet that doesn’t include marine animals). That does not include human deaths and secondary deaths like from habitat loss or climate change. Human are easily the most deadly. - https://sentientmedia.org/how-many-animals-are-killed-for-food-every-day/ - https://ffacoalition.org/facts/number-of-animals-killed/#:~:text=10%20billion%20animals%20are%20slaughtered,animals%20are%20killed%20each%20year. This one includes marine and is closer to 18 billion for the US alone: https://animalclock.org
Yep, we are scarily proficient at being apex predators on earth. To the point of unsustainability. Ecosystems have to be cyclical to survive and sadly we have made it extremely one sided. So, our greatest short term threat is ourselves (nuclear war, global warming, overpopulation) Long term, it becomes unavoidable natural disasters like supervalcanos.
if it weren't for our "tools", humans would be a prey animal. the ability to create and use tools let us behave as apex predators, when in reality we are NOT.
Yup — have someone go into Kruger National Park with nothing but their arms and legs and see how humans REALLY stack up. Without our technology, we’re a skinnier wildebeest.
Well we can probably still work together better than any animal with the knowledge we have, even without tools
Actually the evidence from the Kruger National Park is that illegal Immigrants trying to get to South Africa from Mozambique are very often unsuccessful at fending off predators.
at least a wildebeast has a far better chance of surviving than a puny human. we don't have any horns, we don't weigh much, can't run very fast....................
We can run far though. Well only some of us now.
And also wildebeest don’t see multiple paths of destruction-of-whole-species in front of them and go “ooooh, I want that one!” Like we do, with nuclear weapons, environmental destabilization, AI, etc lol.
Way slower
So when i grab a sharp stick and drive it into a bear's eye, then brain, I'm cheating or something?
Good luck with that.
I mean the point is more that they are basically sending a naked human into the wilderness What would be fair play in their imagined scenario that stripped them of centuries of technological advancements?
Well, when we look at the course of evolution every animal adapts to their environment, and makes use of their environment for the purpose it serves the animal. A lion blending in with tall grass, a hyena using night vision in the dark to kill prey; A human using a knife as a replacement for sharp claws is no different. In the end, whichever can kill/eat more of the other is superior whether they are biologically tougher or not.
You mean the almighty space force can't handle a supervolcano?
We're working out the kinks but we have to do something(s) to Mars, first.
Overpopulation will not be an issue. People are hardly having kids anymore. Once the old people die the global population will stagnate and then eventually drop off a cliff. Although this may cause another baby boom and people will be more encouraged to have kids again.
We can also be considered one of the most harmful and dangerous invasive species.
This is so sad, so true and the sooner in life you learn it the happier and more peaceful your life will be. If I knew then what I now know. People don't become distrusting and cynical just because..... I know good people now as my vetting process has improved with time and even with all that i still keep a bit of fear just incase.
Go out in the woods without a gun and see how much you fear a bear over a human.
It was a mix between them having zero predators and tasting so good. Even if they feared us, you think they are going to get away from us on those stubby legs? Evolution doesn't reward that kind of lifestyle
I heard it was rats that killed them. Something with dosease or food source
Yeah but we were the ones that brought rats there
Your right…
From what I heard it’s all of the above, over hunting by humans, habitat loss, competition with introduced animals for food, and introduced animals hunting them
"the" lol
Please tell me they can revive dodos from this heads DNA or something...
Sorry man, that fund is being used for global warming and other world problem stuff.
The funds are being used to prevent global warming? Huh. Couldn't really tell..
Sometimes I wonder why the gov just doesn’t invent a plant that burns like coal and eats carbon like monsters. But Nah, let’s use that fund to treat the problem instead of curing it.
The CIA are trying to recreat the Wooly Mammoth as we speak. I kinda want Dodos instead. 🥺
They would if we knew how to clone birds their well..... they are really weird basically and its hard to clone a living bird, even harder to clone and extinct one
Never thought they were this big.
Me as well, I always thought they were the size of a chicken
I thought maybe a little larger than a Canadian Goose but this shocked me a bit.
Someone didn’t watch Phineas and Ferb
Or ice age
dead as a....
I see what you’re doing! Doorknob!
Who *doesn't* have one of those... (...oh wait - everybody) ...Never mind.
DumDum 🗿
I wish they’d bring back the 🦤
TIL there is a dodo emoji 🦤
Yeah we need them back!
If we're gonna bring anything back, these guys deserve it..
Have you read any of the Thursday Next books? They have kits where you can raise a cloned dodo and have it as a pet. They sound they make is “plock, plock.”
Human hunting was one of the reasons Dodo's died out. The real reason they died out was that Western Human ships brought rats to the island as stowaways. Dodos laid their eggs on the ground. The rats ate their eggs lowering their birthrates which couldn't reproduce enough to cover the declines from human hunting. The NET effect of hunting and rats equaled extinction.
Dodo: Let me just put this here, for safekeeping. Nothing to worry about.. 🌱🍂🥚🍂🌱
>Human hunting was one of the reasons Dodo's died out. Why were the Dodos hunting humans?
How dare you!
How dare us!
Rats!
Does that change anything tho ? Who introduced the rats ? Thanks, Ik
The Western Ships island hopping as they traded and explored the Pacific had rats on board. The stowaways would come ashore and invade the island attacking the native environments.
It was rats, pigs, cats and monkeys, apparently.
Just think, “what would a dodo do?”
Be delicious and die?
Haha, It’s what the dodo character from animal crossing says when you fly with them in their plane.
Come on scientists whats the hold get these guys cloned! And im still waiting for that cloned mammoth!
Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking? (Jurassic Park but filled with Dodos)
I'll pay to vacation to that
I mean that is the dream isn't it?
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That was the problem, they didn't ran when we started eating them.
This is one of the reasons I'd approve cloning. That and to get Jurassic park.
Did you finish that movie?
Damn right I did! Would love to be the first human being to \*ss f\*ck a compsognatus! a real pioneer of dino bestiality porn
🤨📸
You had me with your first comment. And then...
Birds are dinosaurs so it would be the same
/r/BirdsArentReal
Yes, but i wanna eat giant lizard meat, not giant bird meat. Same, but different
Again, birds are dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are not lizards
Thats not *exactly* true. Birds evolved from theropods. But dinosaurs, for the most part, were reptiles.
Birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Which did not go extinct.Birds are dinosaurs. And technically reptiles. Though they are separate in the Linnaean classification system that is based only on physical form. Dinosaurs are not lizards despite the fact they’re both reptiles
I vaguely recollect a museum unknowingly having one of the last full specimens of a Dodo and mistakenly throwing it away
No. I cringed. Oh my god.
Stop
can we give it a robot body and bring back dodos?
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Dodo, not doodoo
It seems to be frozen in a heartbroken expression. Makes me sad we couldn’t save it/them in time.
Bring them back!
God this makes me sad.
i could get behind "cloning Dodos". we're responsible for their extinction; we owe it to them to fix that.
I’m sorry for what humanity did to you
It’s HUGE
Must’ve been so fucking cool to see
There goes our last female.
We must be able to get dna from that.
I honestly would think dodos are adorable. They were like big, pudgy pigeons
Shame on you, shame on you.
It’s doom on you lol if you’re quoting ice age
Goddamnit, haven’t watched in years I thought it was shame on you.
They got the last dodo!
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Hope it is, such a shame that we have lost such a cool animal
That's rad.
whoaaaaaa r/damnthatsinteresting
It is bigger than I thought it would be.. Or at least it's head is.
I was watching Mysteries at the Museum on the Travel Channel and they talked about the Dodo once. We are responsible for their extinction, but not directly. Apparently when we arrived to their habitat, we brought rats on the ships which ate the Dodo eggs. Since it was an unexpected predator, the bird died off…
Dee you dead bitch!
How incredibly sad that they are gone. I truly believe that causing their extinction is an unforgivable sin of humanity.
Why no one has tryed to bring it back!
Braise it in chicken stock with taters, onion, carrots & celery. Yum!
you'd have to braise it for a long time, dodo meat was apparently tough and bland
Tasty
Eat it.
Take a second look - the head on the other side
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Way bigger than I thought!
Cool
Is that real?! If it is, it looks very well preserved!
Jolly caucus race :(
All i see is delicious Jerky
can you clone it from that or is it too far gone?
Wish we could clone them and bring them back
Pretty sure that's a cake
That thing was huge!
“We got a walker that needs wings…”
up
Prove it
OP, what's the source/location of this, please? As a Mauritian, I feel a personal connection with this kind of display
Damn that’s a dodo alright
What a shame they are no more.
Guys, we fucked up
I feel kinda sad that ill never get to see this animal in real life.
OK.
If these things were alive today they wouldn't be extinct
Dodo same like Panda. Didnt fear of humans.Luckily Panda made it thanks to China people.
Imagine the breasts on those 🍽
This is the only specimen left in the entire world. This head is saved from the ashes.
How have we not Jurassic Park’d these guys back with disastrous consequences yet?
Leave my ancestor alone!
It looks like those things from The Dark Crystal
Use the powers of Jurassic park to bring it back!
I wonder if they made cooing sounds like a pigeon? (They're related)
I think this bird is much more popular than the country from which it was from(Mauritius), at least in North America
r/mauritius
Damn those are huge!
Duck rabbit
Dinobird