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Mass Dodo Graveyard Found
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hmmfe said:
My point is that, the Dodo did not make itself fat, and slow....however it was its way of life with no known preditors such as humans.
Now humans introduce themselves in the mix and decide to wipe out the entire population of the Dodo, just because they were too lazy, regardless if the Dodo was tasty or not.
You can see the same thing happening today, humans are killing other humans, nature, and wildlife to profit from it. They are also killing themselves in the process by not being active enough. These same people they cry out and say that they have a problem with obesity and society should help them with drugs and some sort of answer. While these people have been exposed to numerous forms of information tell them to cut back on eating and start exercising to counter the effects of obesity.
Yet they do not listen, they go on placing the blame on companies and society for either luring them with bigger portions and skinny figures on magazines. Those are excuses for they laziness. As they brought it upon themselves.
The Dodo did not bring death onto itself, they were fine without human intervention, that is what brought them extension in the end. Since humans have a hugh problem with greed no matter which era they lived to destroy and continue to do so till this day.
If the Dodo died of some form of illness, that is death and extension brought upon by its own fault. However this was brought upon humans. If meat is what they wanted they should have raised the Dodo as we do with chickens, cattle, etc... and manage it wisely, instead they went on a daily feast without taking responsibility.
Xtremehkr said:
Since humanity failed them, if they were farmed that would have been a different issue.
They legacy has been lost forever. Chickens and cattle are also stupid, lets send them also into extension.
Abstract said:
I hear they taste better when you cook them in a crock pot and barbecue sauce. Gets more fat out.
The dodo is sad, yes, but a bit exaggerated in modern culture. I'd rather see more general attempts at conservation (hybrid cars and beyond, nuclear/solar power, etc) than a "Think of the dodos!" response.
Xtremehkr said:
Read my post above - its about humans all over the world realizing that things could actually go extinct. Before that no one really thought it was possible - even that the planet had always been the way it was as God made it. No evolution, no extinction and man didn't have the power to control things like that - the dodo changed all that.
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Mr. Anderson said:
Well, the concept of extinction was controversial at the time (at least among the religious), but the concept goes way back in history to at least the Greeks. Leonardo Davinci believed in extinction, for instance.
It was Georges Cuvier that is credited with "proving" that extinction happens. However, Cuvier's proof was fossil Mammoths from North America and Italy. He proved that the fossils were not from currently living Elephants as was suggested by his opponents.
Jovian9 said:
Unfortunately, the preserved mammoth wasn't as well preserved as they imagined.
Rather than being a fully preserved, intact, mammoth, it was mostly just decayed flesh, some hair, and bones that were not in their correct positions.
Definitely a good source of DNA though, and I'm pretty certain we'll see a baby mammoth walking around before the (next) turn of the century.
Neither are chickens or turkeys, but they sure are tasty!Lacero said:
This could be the start of a whole new restaurant chain! Kentucky Fried Dodo.
BRING ON THE GRAVY!!!
Mr. A - good posts. The Dodo was a bit of a "Hey, where are they?" moment. The 19th century is interesting on that front. There were other similar birds - the Great Auk (Awk) is one you'll read about in sea tales - that were easy meals on islands. That was one where the decimation was observed with the extinction easy to pinpoint at 1844. The history is an interesting mix of "the world is so big there must be more" and not really caring one way or another. Fish populations are an interesting study today - there are species that are in bad shape that I can walk into Oceanaire when I'm in DC and order. (which reminds me of Chilean sea bass (a great example of a fish you'll have no problem finding on an up-scale menu) and the little write-up on Paul Sutherland on the Apple photography pro page - http://www.apple.com/pro/photo/sutherland/)
I think of the massive changes so quickly in recent history - just think about the western US over a mere 100 yrs. From open to larely developed except for the nat'l parks / forests / agricultural timber lands and the most arid areas. I even think about what an attorney that came to DC in the late 60s told me about how the inner areas just west of Georgetown were open and rural at that time and now it's developed down river road with one suburb after another - and that's just the change in my lifetime. It's stunning to think about - that there were half as many people on Earth in just the 1960s as there are today. It all gets a little overwhelming.
I think of the massive changes so quickly in recent history - just think about the western US over a mere 100 yrs. From open to larely developed except for the nat'l parks / forests / agricultural timber lands and the most arid areas. I even think about what an attorney that came to DC in the late 60s told me about how the inner areas just west of Georgetown were open and rural at that time and now it's developed down river road with one suburb after another - and that's just the change in my lifetime. It's stunning to think about - that there were half as many people on Earth in just the 1960s as there are today. It all gets a little overwhelming.
A chain selling greasy, unpleasant tasting bird meat? I think KFC have that market pretty well covered already...freeny said: