As a Dutch person I was taught in school that we were the reason the dodo went extinct. I thought they meant "we" in the broader sense of humanity, but no it was literally us, the Dutch, ruining yet another good thing overseas to take valuables back home.
I'd also wager what's not openly discussed is probably disease. I wager hunting and predators were a factor as well as deforestation, but you know what really nukes a population? Viruses and bacterium.
And now your government want to punish y’all for your ancestors crimes by cutting your farmers crop yields to starve you as per instructions from the WEF and Klaus.
Doesn't fix things but good on your country for teaching the truth and taking responsibility. That's something every country struggles with including mine America. Were getting better or maybe worst idm
Well, if it makes you feel any better, the wood harvested from that island probably helped build ships which helped fueled the trade that eventually made the world much safer and more comfortable for people. Industrializing nations tend to cause a lot of ecological damage, but the alternative to economic improvement is letting people die of disease and lack that could have been saved. If I was a poor Brazilian logger id probably chop down the rainforest to feed my family too.
It makes me really happy to think that for thousands of years, these isolated islands existed with pretty much no killing or disease, just a glorious tropical paradise with cute little fluffballs walking around being generally lovely to one another and just having a good old time
I know right. Imagine all the beautiful plants species thousands of years before humans, there'd be more species new species we haven't seen than imaginable.
@@bobbobkinz9958 That is, in a nutshell, the sad story of this planet, the most tragic since the Chicxulub impact. You know how our stories have "dark forces of evil took over the world and reigned supreme for a long dark time as demons pillaged and destroyed everything they saw". That's animals telling their story of life under human occupation of the planet. We are the Orcs, the Demons, the HellSpawn, the SatanSeed, the Devil himself.
As a child I had a picture book about Dodos. I was crushed when I was told that extinct meant dead forever and I'd never meet one ... They seem cute and friendly. Imagine having a fat, fearless bird in the garden!
@@sentienttapioca5409 see, the issue with that is that dodos lacked the fight or flight instinct, meanwhile, a goose is a creature that is made up of pure fight instinct and would treathen even the devil if he approached it too much
Another fun fact about the Dodo is that by the late 18th Century some scientist even doubted that it even existed at all because of a lot of paintings with Dodos where they put stuff like phoenixes and unicorns and some people were especially convinced at one time when the Dodo was put in to Louis Carroll's classic novel Alice In Wonderland, but ironically at that time two complete Dodo skeletons dug up proved it existed and we've been studying it since then. One particular Dodo was kept as an attraction in England and was popular and when it died it was taken to Oxford after it got stuffed but later there were many parts of the stuffed dodo that got thrown away but the shriveled head and leg were saved and with the DNA on the Oxford Dodo is how ornithologists confirmed that it was a pigeon.
I remember actually hearing that another big factor of dodo Extinction was actually the tortoises that also roamed the island If I remember correctly the tortoises were unbelievably amazing for sailing purposes as they held a large reservoir of clean fresh water as well as not needing that much to survive so they could literally grab some tortoises roll them onto the ship and store them as future food Where the dodo bird comes in is that the dodo bird did not actually taste that good so sailors did not eat them as much but it turns out you cook it with the fat of the tortoises and you have a very palatable dish and caused sailors to literally stop by the island and pick up a couple dodos and turtles for the long voyage This also means that if we had ketchup back then every animal would probably be extinct by now
Sounds pretty similar to pygmy sauropods, which were a result of island dwarfism. Eventually a land bridge connected their island to somewhere else. Being the bite sized version of an animal that relys heavily on size in order to become near untouchable, the limited edition happy meals were sold out very quickly.
Hilariously enough the nearly exact opposite happened to the Pygmy Sauropod's natural predator, Giant Azhdarchids. Basically, pterosaurs grew to massive monstrous sizes to prey specifically on the dwarf island dinosaurs. They retained the ability to fly so they can hop between islands and feast on the local inhabitants but overall didn't like to travel long distances. Then the land bridge happened. Containment of these giant nightmare storks finally broke, and they were unleashed onto the mainland. Becoming absolutely everywhere almost instantly. So one one hand, everyone got sauropod nuggets for a short time. On the other hand: THE TALL BOIS ARE LOOSE THE TALL BOIS ARE LOOSE-
As a Mauritian myself, I confirm everything there is true. But just 1 more detail you may have forgot When the dodo was hunted it's "scream" made other dodos come, making the Dutch having a lot of dodos at the same while hunting only 1 I hope I explained it well-
I have a (disbound) book I bought from a boot sale many years ago for £1, which is the natural history of the world. Under Dodo, it says 'The Dodo is an inhabitant of the Isles of France', meaning that it was probably published around 1720, and the author didn't know that Dodos were likely to have been extinct by then. It also says 'The Kangaru is an inhabitant of New Holland', and he casts doubt on the existence of mermaids, but doesn't rule them out!
@@CrippleX89 I don't, sadly, as the title pages are missing (and the plates). All that is there is the main text (fortunately complete). You should see what he says about 'Man' and the different races. I'll try and post some quotes. I brought the book in to work a few years ago, and we used to joke it was the instruction manual of our software!
its very hard for me to like humanity after all the shit we have done :D its almost impossible , I sometimes think that thiw world would do soooo much better without us :D humans are like a virus spreading around this planet and destroyng everything we come into contact with
I don’t know about you guys, but I always thought the Dodo bird went extinct after coming into contact with an odd herd containing a mammoth, saber tooth tiger, small human, and a deformed sloth. If I remember correctly, the unique herd took the Dodo birds’ last melon and the remaining Dodo’s committed suicide out of pure shame. This video changes everything.
-Colossal Biosciences, “Hold my beer” A de-extinction company, are working on bringing back the dodo along with the woolly mammoth. No I’m not kidding. Jurassic park style.
@@ASAMB12 At some point there would appear a predator trough evolution - if the food supplies would be no longer enough to support growing population of dodos, some dodos would have to evolve to eat other dodos.
@@jarlfenrir There is self regulation. If the supplies started to dwindle they would have naturally reduced their population growth until the next bonanza.
Dodo's also have a low birth rate. They basically only laid one egg per year because there was no need to lay more (no predators were eating them) so when people started killing them, they couldn't replace their population fast enough
Not only did a lack of all concerns *allow* dodos to grow relaxed, it likely *encouraged* it. In a place without danger, fleeing because a nearby bush rustled wastes energy. The more relaxed dodos had an inherent advantage (until they didnt). This is my hypothesis at least.
Hmmm good hypothesis, perhaps more likely would be the reason of sexual selection, dodos that ran away from rustling bushes might of been interrupted during mating or seen as cowardly by female dodos.
At least for thousands years this animal lived in safe beautiful paradise island, ate tasty exotic fruits, nice beaches, slow and easy life. Maybe some little fights between hot head cute young Dodos here and there. Rest and peace, Dodos! At least your kind didn't end like your cousin, chicken. Ngl, I kinda curious how Dodo going to taste like in bbq sauce.
The dodos not only forgot their instincts, but 5:03 they forgot how to fly. The reason their eggs are just sitting there on the ground not even hidden is because there was no reason to hide it. Also, people loved eating dodos. The thing is all these factors built up to their extinction. Dont feel too bad. They were doomed either way.
As a fellow Mauritian student, I learned in Grade 5 to 6 that the Dutch were the reason why this big bird is extinct . It is said that one of the reasons why they left the island was because they overkilled what used to be endemic animals on the island . Edit : No offense towards the Dutch , that is just what I learned. This was before the 17's anyway , so the past is the past .
As I Dutch person, I was taught that basically we ate them all, because A. they were really tasty and B. they were so easy to catch because they did not run or fly away. I guess the animals we brought along contributed more to the dodo's extinction than I was told, but that might just be the result of fast generalization over a long period of time. Also, I approve of the Dutch bringing cheese joke xD
I heard they weren't even tasty, but giant tortoises were super tasty, and when cooked in tortoise fat, dodos (as well as anything else) would be delicious too. Easy to catch, and making the super good yummy food lasting longer... 😆
As a Mauritian, I never knew other people were told he died because of his low intelligence and slowness, since we were littles we were always told the real reason of this death.
i mean his brain was technically underdeveloped compared to its ancestors so technically it isnt wrong to call it stupid. not entirely accurate but also not entirely wrong
@@stagaries1696 their brain did what they needed. Spot the next fruit and preferably not too far away. Any living thing always seeks the path of least resistance. Given the opportunity, every creature grows lazy and fat. You can see it in pets that are fed too much. I’ve seen a documentary about a group of lions near a small village with lots of life stock. They ate themselves fat but they kept killing for sport as that was their instinct.
It’s really a shame because Dodo’s would have made great pets. Literally not defensive or predatory instincts, just a chill animal that would be happy to sit with you while you watch tv, eat a snack, smoke a blunt, drink a beer or do whatever the hell you do while you’re on your couch. We need Jurassic park or a time machine to bring these guys back
I get that it has decent traits behaviorally but... it's a 1m tall bird with a large beak and no fear... Also, it might be a herbivore but... just think about how much it would eat... Decent zoo animal, but hell no as a pet...
As a Mauritian, I was taught at school that the Dutch ate the dodos as it was really easy to catch and the rats ate the eggs. Mauritius Island had the dodo and Rodrigues Island had the solitary bird which is extinct as well.
As a kid, my favourite place to go in Mauritius was jardin pamplemousses. It's labelled as a botanical garden that has never been touched. But thinking about it now, the Dutch didn't leave any of the island untouched. The garden can't be older than 100 years old but it's marketed as being one of the oldest gardens in the world. Still it's cool to see what the island could have looked like
@Cor mac That garden was made in the French era so the dutch were not around in that period. That garden must be around 200 years old probably. Fun fact, my father's great grandfather came from India as a businessman and he bought a colonial house which used to be a police station in the French time, we still stay there and that house must be some 200 or 300 years old 😆
@@marcus14659 since half of the island is a nature park and untouched, you can go look at what it would have looked like anytime. The botanical gardens on the other hand are a collection of flora brought from all over the world,to find out what grows best in that environment
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i honestly think these birds probably would've made great pets, i would've absolutely loved to have one as a pet. it upsets me so much that these big fluffy borbs are just gone forever because of how horrible humans can be. they were like the perfect size for cuddling, related to pigeons and doves (who also make good pets), and had like no fight or flight instinct so they would've been so friendly and docile. i really wish those people had at least took some back and bred them in captivity so we'd at least have a domesticated version still around.
Breeding attempts for the dodo was nearly impossible during the 17th century. Dodos can lay only one egg at a time due to the limited resources of the island. Many specimens were taken overseas to Europe and Asia but barely a few less than 10 to be percise survived their journeys. Dodo gestation and breeding requirements were unknown at the time. So unlike the chicken that can reproduce many eggs within a short time period also the chicken is known for being a much more hardy and well known bird. Dodos were not seen to be valuable or worth it in societies of the 17th century but during the 19th century their popularity exploded and become today an extinction icon.
Cloning dodos has been an idea thrown around for several decades at this point. It's not even a matter of if we can, it's more a matter of the ethics of cloning.
I was always told we hunted them to extinction because they didn't know to run away as soon as they noticed us. They were easy prey on an island between continents, and a good way to stock up on food mid-trip.
@@0011peace You're right to an extent. In just a few trips, a few ships wouldn't be able to make Dodos go extinct. However, we didn't do it all at once. It took us 70 years. According to what sources I could find, there were at least around 500 million people around the time of the first recorded sighting of Dodos in the 1500s. If even just 0.01% of those people sailed out there in the 70 years they existed with us, that's 10,000 people, going to an island about 2 times the size of New York City, introducing predators like dogs and cats, while also destroying their habitat, and hunting them ourselves. You have to remember that they were a relatively small population of birds, that couldn't fly, stuck on a small island along a very commonly travelled trade route. It wouldn't be just a few ships every year, and it wouldn't just be humans. It would be dozens of ships, full of hundreds of hungry sailors, pet cats, aspiring hunters, new diseases, salesmen and plain old travellers. All of whom, sentient or not would want to try this exotic bird that doesn't even run away when you approach. From the standpoint of a sailor that is travelling open ocean, they'd want as much food as they could carry in case something went wrong. Some people likely came exclusively for the chance to try this bird's meat, because of how unique it was. In the same way we wiped out mammoths, giant sloths, and more. We simply showed up, and killed all of them. Sometimes for food. Sometimes for trophy hunting. Sometimes just because we can. It's just how we are. So yes, we definitely couldn't have killed them ourselves, but we didn't do it by ourselves. We brought invasive species, and destroyed their native ecosystem. It wasn't just Dodos that went extinct either. According to the IUCN Red List (International Union for Conservation of Nature) there are 47 extinct species that were native to that island. Not all of them went extinct at the same time, but almost certainly, all of them are pretty much our fault. Sorry for the rant. Your statement made me curious, so I looked it all up myself.
As a mauritian and the fact that what he is saying is quite true and I remember learning about dodo's extinction in 5th grade history class (6 -7 years ago or more I am in highschool btw if you're getting confused ) and basically they were hunted for food and also rats or the animals that were brought in mauritius ate their eggs since they laid eggs on the ground and it's sad to learn that dodo's went extinct because of human cause as child. I really appreciate that you made a video on our national bird and told people the real cause of dodo's extinction.
🤷 I am actually surprised that people before the 2010s didn't learn all this, I have lived in Utah, USA almost all my life and was taught this in elementary school too. 🤔 I expect the worse modern education system, but the the combination of all those reasons are what I learned.
@@BoMwarriorVlog Do they actually teach that the dodo went extinct because of environmental factors, not because people settled the island? I've always known it was invasive species and human factors such as deforestation... I can't even remember where I learned it from, though. (I'm British).
@@Xorthis I don't remember learning about any environmental factors affecting them unless you're talking about settlers clearing some land to be able to have homes and farm.
@@BoMwarriorVlog That's crazy. It's another of those 'old facts' that schools teach, along with the segmented taste buds and atoms with electrons that orbit like planets. So many times I remember being told 'this is what you need to know now, but later you'll find out what it really is. ' Education fail...
Saying "the bird was stupid and didn't deserve to live" sounds way better than "humans arriving and not having a shred of respect or understanding of the wonders they just found destroyed the ecosystem of an entire island in as little as 50 years"
where did you get that kind of crappy info. even when i was like 7 i knew that it was invasive species and human hunting them that drove them extinct. it's like the first thing you learn about them anywhere, even in children books
@@daniellclary That's because basically nobody says it. This guy is creating a false narrative he can "destroy" to make it seem like the "truth has been concealed".
Life in mauritus -or any island- isn't easy in the slightest. There's no food (once you over populated so you become very competitive over territoty, mates, etc), water is scarce most of the year, climate is a nightmare, theres typhoons and tsunamis and shit, the're fires, diseases spread quicky and become epidemic (thats the reason why dodos had "featherless faces" for termoregulation and show their health) What happened to the dodo is what happened to all islands and specially birds. Not necessarily for been "friendly" coz most extinct birds in islands actually fly. Edit: it's called changes in the habitat and invasive species. Nice video btw really funny :D
@@JezaJames cuz you ain't on an island, and you have fuck ton of animals, both predators and prey, and nowdays there's ton of food everywhere with slight technological advancment so.
@@HowlingWolf518 Hard to really tell what is and isn't an island... cause like you said, just going by "surrounded by water" *everything* is... so then it's got to be size, but at *what point* do you just call it a continent and not and island and vise versa.
Due to lack of fight or flight response, they might also have been the friendliest birds to exist, just like Capybaras are friendliest animal to exist.
If its any consolation, penguins are usually indifferent to humans since they have no natural land predators and thus do not percieve us as a threat. Theyre lucky we're in a conservation state and find them cute. Adelies do seem a bit sassy tho
KFD sounds really good, but seriously though there is a batch of scientists looking to revive the Dodo, but I do not think they would survive anything. Honestly look at it this way, they don't run, they don't fly, they don't fear anything and don't fight back, this is literally a definition of perfect domestic farm birds that can be used alongside Chickens. KFD is not too far a stretch, but it sounds divine to have basically a smaller version of a turkey, bigger than a chicken meal.
They could survive back on the island if they got rid of the predators and reforested big areas to put the birds. It would make a lot of money from tourists going there too. Or they could just make huge areas a nature reserve and fence it off with electric fencing to keep predators out....then put the dodo's in there and let people walk about to look for them at take photos.
What do they taste like? Imagine being the first Dodo brought back. You'd have zero bearings. No parents. No siblings. You don't even know what you like to eat.
@@noahway13 "Dodo Feed" just train them to eat the foods the island they lived on had, but in man made form like chicken feed, modified to fatten up the oversized chicken turkeys
@@jase123111 You are talking about the absolute destruction of an ecosystem, and even if it was done on an island, you are still destroying the habitat of hundreds of animals and species alike. Money or not, KFD is a money maker, Dodo in a zoo is just a waste and doesn't offer anything concrete for people to even interact with the animal. There is still scientific risks as well to remember, like what if they give it DNA of an aggressive animal, look at Jurassic World for that drama in the sake of money
I'm surprised at the other things people say they were told. I learned about Dodos on my own when I was in early grade school (early 2000's) through a biography on tv. I've always remembered something along the lines of "They became so comfortable and fearless because they didn't have any predators for so long, that they grew fat and were no longer able to flee once predators were introduced." I've always heard Dodos were dumb, but I know that's not why they died. They were gluttons who "had no worries" for too long, thus being too easy to kill. I don't really remember much else on the documentary. I do know that humans killed most nice things out there and continue to do so.
@@Tasorius perhaps maybe it’s the balance between light and dark (good and evil) that is ideal in our universe. I do wonder why balance seems like such an important thing to our existence though. I keep thinking “if you have something sentient then why would you put it through so much pain?” It seems irrelevant to my original point and we shouldn’t assume that human ethics applies to everything but idk. Why do we even have our own ethics at all if it doesn’t really mean much? The universe seems too intentional for something like ethics or other philosophies to be a coincidence.
As a kid the story of the dodo was always framed within the context of human interference and the dangers of not being environmentally conscious. But I think your conclusion here is a far better takeaway from this story. If you stop challenging yourself and get complacent, you make yourself vulnerable. There are no guarantees in life and over the expanse of time the odds of an individual (or in this case, a species) facing a major challenge or threat will eventually hit 100%. Don't let the easy life lure you into being unprepared.
Yeah it was human interference that led to the extinction of the Dodo. Kind of like how we're causing the extinction of the Polar bear and countless other species on this planet. The Dodo survived for millions of years longer than homo sapiens have been on this planet and maybe instead of blaming them for their extinction we should learn from the past before we cause our extinction.
Si vis pacem para bellum If you want peace, prepare for war This saying is still true to this day Every citizen around the world need to be able to defend themselves and know how to use weapons to keep peace
Wow, I really enjoyed this video! You did a great job breaking down the complex reasons behind the Dodo's extinction. That said, I can't help but think that sometimes we put too much blame on humans for these extinctions. Nature has its own way of balancing itself, and some species may have just been destined to fade away, you know? It's a tricky debate for sure!
As a Mauritian, I can confirm that this is what we’re taught at school too. Excluding the KFD part…but I wouldn’t be surprised if it would’ve been a thing today 😂
Not sure the history of the place, but I guess even if the Dutch didn’t arrive, they’d be doomed regardless because other settlers like you would’ve arrived
I remember some kids were crying at a park once apparently they had found the "last dodo" it probably was only just a pigeon but the swollen head and beaks and small wing seems .eh ....
The only thing that I'm confused by is how the dodo lived for 4 million years predator free without over populating the island and running out of food. Since things like the deer in Yellowstone without wolves kinda destroyed the ecosystem
Because deer, for want of a better phrase, evolved _with_ their predators to keep them in check, in a land of scarce resources. A form of symbiosis, if you will. Remove one part of the equation, and it falls apart. Mauritius apparently was Mana Island, and the dodos couldn't consume enough resources to make a dent in the ecology; presumably because they evolved _with_ that ecology. My two cents, for what it's worth.
@@alexanderchen1049 it could be it wasn't bc of 4m years of evolution. It could be possible it was just the last type of birds their species mated with. In 4 mil year u really think that no others slowly added to their gene pool. Thru time I bet they kept adding different types of birds in their genes an then mutated to this point by the last gene of birds they mated with.
If I recall correctly the dodos did not have a prolific amount of offspring. They replaced themselves more slowly so I think this made up for not having predators...basically they didn't breed like rabbits. This also was part of their downfall. Kind of like pandas, they suck at breeding too.
one of the reason could be that Dodo's main source of food came from high up in the tree and being flightless birds all they could do was wait for the fruit to fall. In a sense their population was regulated by trees and season. Which in contrast with the deer, their food source grew very close to where they could easily overgraze .... you get the idea
We do have machine guns and even though we lost our ability to fly a couple of generations ago, at least we have fighter jets that somewhat make up for it.
@@edwardjohansson2909wait you lost your ability to fly? I still have it, though everyday those damn scientists try to say i’m “breaking the laws of gravity”
Seriously? The number of flashing visuals in the first three seconds alone could induce discomfort and maybe even epileptic response. Modern day video apparently has to be this rabid. I'm amazed there aren't more camer angle and stance jumps to elicit even more distraction.
Another thing you forgot to add is that we found them particularly tasty, and when they were hunted they had this cry for help which when heard by other dodos they would rush to come and help, this would obviously prove to not be very helpful when Steve's kind was being hunted and the hunters just got a lot of more free meals Edit: Thanks for everyone that corrected me on that the dodo wasn't tasty
@@fabolvaskarika7940 we have various amount of documents on that, as well as stories that the humans on the island didn't kill them for their meat but bonked their heads out of boredom and left them to rot.
Actually we all miss the Dodo by its character its friendlyness. We as Mauritians we love the Dodo so much and so many people around the world love the enigmatic Dodo. It's heart warming to see how Dutch people love the Dodo too even what history said about their extinction. Hope to see the Dodo back someday with new technologies and researches that are being done.
I remember hearing different stories throughout the years. When I was really small, i was told that it was because the Dodo didn't reproduce enough because they were lazy. Then it was because they couldn't fly and we're totally eaten by other animals, and then, they were killed by humans
@@Newport20 They were eaten as a source of protein in the very early days of colonistion, just not a particularly tasty or flavoursome bird. After the introduction of the Madagascan Tenrec people preferred that to the Dodo.
We haven't brought back anything from extinction successful, should probably wait until they bring back the mammoth before assuming the thylacine, dodo, and cave lion have a chance.
Geneticists have been talking about bringing back extinct animals using biogenetic manipulation for quite some time and it's been "underway" for years. My guess is that the major issue would be the changing of the RNA in Earth's virome. Any newly revived species would probably be poorly equipped to handle modern viruses, but this is just my theory as to the complications involved. I also assume it would be a painstakingly complicated task to genetically modify their immune systems to cope, but that is just an assumption. Of course there are many other implications that would lead one to believe an extinct species wouldn't last long if it were brought back - considering it went extinct in the first place. However this differs when dealing with animals that were recently hunted to extinction as I imagine their immune systems could potentially be ok.
When I asked my father why the dodo bird went extinct, he told me about how the rats ate all their eggs so they couldn't reproduce. While I'm glad he didn't lie to me(which is a thing he did way too often), I now know about the other info he left out. Then again, I don't blame him for not telling me every single detail because I was only about six at the time.
He probably didn't know. I don't think he was protecting you from anything. You might need protecting though because you seem very simplistic in your thinking.
There probably would be dodo farms if they hadn't gone extinct when they did. You'd have to breed some fear back into them to help them survive off the island, but people have been pretty good at that kind of thing with most critters.
I think the fact that they didn't run or fly away, and you could just walk up to them and do pretty much whatever you wanted means they would have been the easiest animal in the world to keep as livestock. Like.. the most domesticated animal in existence, from birth with no training necessary at all. Too bad they weren't captured, protected, and raised as such.
When i was studying about this bird as a child in school i was so happy by hearing their name and seeing how cute they look and then i was so sad that they went extinct 💔
Man, this is some brilliant stuff! ❤I didn't initially plan to watch the whole video, because I essentially know the story, but I stayed till the end and had a lot of fun. :D You've got a great sense of humor and I love the editing style. Keep it coming! :)
Yeah, i have a small dodo puppet sitting next to me. But i heard some genetic science lab wanted to restore the dodo's... *Soon the dodo's will be back, and you shall fear them*
Or delicious honestly the Dutch were the dumbest people ever not to think that a bird that is big and fat that does not run away from you would not be a good farm animal.
Atlas Pro has a great videos (at least one focusing on Dodos) if anyone wants to see a bit longer and more comprehensive explanation of the different evolutionary island phenomena. Dodo is a great example of both island gigantism and island tameness. They probably were not particularly stupid comapared to other birds, they just had no need to be aware of predators, and people laughing at their stupidity is like a school bully emotionally torturing the shit out of someone and then laughing and calling them a crybaby when they cry.
Intelligence is actually pretty metabolically expensive, and animals are generally only as smart as they need be. I believe recent studies found that their brains were about the size you'd expect for their body size, but there's more than just brain size, such as folds. I guess my point is that we don't know!
Thing is the dodo isn't the only bird that disappeared at that time in this region, there was the solitaire bird that was endemic to the Rodrigue island but no one talks about this one for some reason. The circumstances were mostly the same as far as I am aware.
@@TheAdriennoel yeah, and there have also been dozens if not over hundred bird species that went extinct in Hawaii after western settling. But dodo is a stiking example because they were so extreme cases of island gigantism and tameness that they were noticed as an oddity.
I can't believe this video is 2 years old! I remember when it came out and blew up and made so many of us laugh while we learned. Cheers Reece and look forward to all you put out there :)
If anything I’m glad you put this video out there for all the people that are surprised. Since that means they had no idea what invasive species are and why it matters. That being said, I was a little dinosaur nerd as a kid and tangentially heard alot about other extinct species like Dodo. I was thrilled to finally visit the British Museum and see the skeleton and taxidermy in person. Despite all the sins of the contemporaries (and that museum) at least someone had the sense to preserve a few of those skeletons.
Unfortunately I don't believe it's a lack of understanding, it's a lack of caring. Half of all people seem to not care about anything that's beyond a arms reach.
I feel that Dodos can serve as a life lesson. As humans have gotten advanced technology, we've started getting lazier and less adapt to surviving in the nature. There could come a time where we lose all of the technology we rely so heavily on and won't know how to survive without it, causing our extinction.
Dont worry, even if this event come to pass humanity won't go extinct, lots of people may die, but humanity as a race will survive, taking our current state i.e. however we cant guarantee it in the future
That's your life lesson? The fact that human causes this to happen doesn't tick you off? I guess European always have this kind of mindset. As long as it is not me then everything is okay. Screw everything else around me as long as I am okay.
It has come to my attention that this video has, quite recently, recieved a rather large influx of viewers. To all new subscribers welcome! I've been out of the game for a while but I'm glad to say I am now firmly back in my editing chair and working to get a new video out ASAP.
This was pretty much what I was taught except it wasn't just rats but pigs that ate the eggs. That and the Dodo tasted awful so people didn't bother hunting them as a food source. I think the problem today their lack of fight or flight instinct got lost in translation in the form of the old joke of them being so stupid to the point of suicidal behaviour like jumping off cliffs thinking they could fly somehow got accepted as fact.
I was literally OBSESSED with dodos growing up and i just loved how they were built and they looked so friendly… but then when i realised they were extinct i started crying. Imagine just having a dodo roaming around in your backyard
I remember being told they went extinct because they were all turned into thanksgiving turkey 😂 Very informative video! Covered a lot without being too much, and also entertaining.
well, sort of. The thing is this video is a bit misleading. Humans brrought predators. It's the same schtick with the indians. 'it were illnesses that killed off the indians'. Doesn't make betrayal, murder and greed ok. And still, the supposed pathogens wouldn't be there if people didn't cross the ocean. Australia has had loads of troubles with whatever the hell humans brought with them. They evovled very strict laws concerning stuff you bring there.
I agree in a non ironical way, they had beaten the game and were continuing to play in endless mode, living the golden life of a retired person with big savings. Only they depended on their envirnonment not being altered
As a Dutch person I was taught in school that we were the reason the dodo went extinct. I thought they meant "we" in the broader sense of humanity, but no it was literally us, the Dutch, ruining yet another good thing overseas to take valuables back home.
I'd also wager what's not openly discussed is probably disease. I wager hunting and predators were a factor as well as deforestation, but you know what really nukes a population? Viruses and bacterium.
And now your government want to punish y’all for your ancestors crimes by cutting your farmers crop yields to starve you as per instructions from the WEF and Klaus.
Doesn't fix things but good on your country for teaching the truth and taking responsibility. That's something every country struggles with including mine America. Were getting better or maybe worst idm
@@darkespeon64 o.o.o.O Eh there will be worse things happening in the future and great things happening.
That is life.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, the wood harvested from that island probably helped build ships which helped fueled the trade that eventually made the world much safer and more comfortable for people. Industrializing nations tend to cause a lot of ecological damage, but the alternative to economic improvement is letting people die of disease and lack that could have been saved. If I was a poor Brazilian logger id probably chop down the rainforest to feed my family too.
It makes me really happy to think that for thousands of years, these isolated islands existed with pretty much no killing or disease, just a glorious tropical paradise with cute little fluffballs walking around being generally lovely to one another and just having a good old time
Then humans happened and everything went downhill
Then humans came and started clubbing them to death, or getting eaten alive into extinction. From heaven to pure pure hell
Until the human nation attacked
I know right. Imagine all the beautiful plants species thousands of years before humans, there'd be more species new species we haven't seen than imaginable.
@@bobbobkinz9958 That is, in a nutshell, the sad story of this planet, the most tragic since the Chicxulub impact. You know how our stories have "dark forces of evil took over the world and reigned supreme for a long dark time as demons pillaged and destroyed everything they saw". That's animals telling their story of life under human occupation of the planet. We are the Orcs, the Demons, the HellSpawn, the SatanSeed, the Devil himself.
As a child I had a picture book about Dodos. I was crushed when I was told that extinct meant dead forever and I'd never meet one ... They seem cute and friendly. Imagine having a fat, fearless bird in the garden!
Goose.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Repent for what? Wiping out the dodos?
@@sentienttapioca5409 see, the issue with that is that dodos lacked the fight or flight instinct, meanwhile, a goose is a creature that is made up of pure fight instinct and would treathen even the devil if he approached it too much
@@fulana_de_tal This is true. I retract my statement lol
Now you are grown and you understand how the world evolved over time. Learning is good.
Another fun fact about the Dodo is that by the late 18th Century some scientist even doubted that it even existed at all because of a lot of paintings with Dodos where they put stuff like phoenixes and unicorns and some people were especially convinced at one time when the Dodo was put in to Louis Carroll's classic novel Alice In Wonderland, but ironically at that time two complete Dodo skeletons dug up proved it existed and we've been studying it since then. One particular Dodo was kept as an attraction in England and was popular and when it died it was taken to Oxford after it got stuffed but later there were many parts of the stuffed dodo that got thrown away but the shriveled head and leg were saved and with the DNA on the Oxford Dodo is how ornithologists confirmed that it was a pigeon.
if Alice in wonderland was fake and humans were mentioned in that tale is that an argument to say humans did not exist like dodis?
I remember actually hearing that another big factor of dodo Extinction was actually the tortoises that also roamed the island
If I remember correctly the tortoises were unbelievably amazing for sailing purposes as they held a large reservoir of clean fresh water as well as not needing that much to survive so they could literally grab some tortoises roll them onto the ship and store them as future food
Where the dodo bird comes in is that the dodo bird did not actually taste that good so sailors did not eat them as much but it turns out you cook it with the fat of the tortoises and you have a very palatable dish and caused sailors to literally stop by the island and pick up a couple dodos and turtles for the long voyage
This also means that if we had ketchup back then every animal would probably be extinct by now
They did have ketchup it was just different from what we know today but it was very widely used
@@HickLif3 ketchup was used as medicine
@@lbn100 as it should be
@@Morris_Minor as medicine for bad food
That's what I was told
Sounds pretty similar to pygmy sauropods, which were a result of island dwarfism. Eventually a land bridge connected their island to somewhere else. Being the bite sized version of an animal that relys heavily on size in order to become near untouchable, the limited edition happy meals were sold out very quickly.
Therapods: I'd like to buy 30 happy meals please
@@germanscience7246 yes, with a side of extinction please
Lol
Hilariously enough the nearly exact opposite happened to the Pygmy Sauropod's natural predator, Giant Azhdarchids. Basically, pterosaurs grew to massive monstrous sizes to prey specifically on the dwarf island dinosaurs. They retained the ability to fly so they can hop between islands and feast on the local inhabitants but overall didn't like to travel long distances.
Then the land bridge happened.
Containment of these giant nightmare storks finally broke, and they were unleashed onto the mainland. Becoming absolutely everywhere almost instantly.
So one one hand, everyone got sauropod nuggets for a short time. On the other hand: THE TALL BOIS ARE LOOSE THE TALL BOIS ARE LOOSE-
"limited edition happy meals" have u been watchin casual geographic/hood nature?
I've always thought their lack of fear would have made them great pets
I was just thinking that I wish I had a pet dodo bird they were already docile they were like 80% domesticated missed opportunity
They probably would've been good food too, too bad we'll never get to taste them...
@@jadetryingtochill1259 in about 10-15 years you probably will, they’re planning to be resurrected by 2027
@@malodos2295i believe there are records of their taste being awful
@slome1846 capybaras of the bird world
2:04 the tortoise's squeak was so cute!
Awww
“ææ” - tortoise
funny
But this is sus 😂
They make that squeak when mating
As a Mauritian myself, I confirm everything there is true.
But just 1 more detail you may have forgot
When the dodo was hunted it's "scream" made other dodos come, making the Dutch having a lot of dodos at the same while hunting only 1
I hope I explained it well-
😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Oh thats so heart breaking
i have a lil question. are geese related to dodos or something?
Wow, that's just typical Dodo.
Those species might have to be the most unfortunate of all times
I have a (disbound) book I bought from a boot sale many years ago for £1, which is the natural history of the world. Under Dodo, it says 'The Dodo is an inhabitant of the Isles of France', meaning that it was probably published around 1720, and the author didn't know that Dodos were likely to have been extinct by then. It also says 'The Kangaru is an inhabitant of New Holland', and he casts doubt on the existence of mermaids, but doesn't rule them out!
Do you happen to know the title of the book? I'm intrigued 🙂
@@CrippleX89 I don't, sadly, as the title pages are missing (and the plates). All that is there is the main text (fortunately complete). You should see what he says about 'Man' and the different races. I'll try and post some quotes. I brought the book in to work a few years ago, and we used to joke it was the instruction manual of our software!
Today, of course, we know mermaids went extinct during the 17th century.
Spelled kangaroo wrong and new holland was the first name of Australia (I think).
this is actually correct. they were eaten into extinction by the Europeans
im legit so pissed off with how they went extinct. they seemed so friendly
and delicious...
its very hard for me to like humanity after all the shit we have done :D its almost impossible , I sometimes think that thiw world would do soooo much better without us :D humans are like a virus spreading around this planet and destroyng everything we come into contact with
Totally unrelated to the video but nice pfp
@@saramaher thanks
YEAHHHH… 😭😭😭
2:52 steve has the defense stat of a vegetable😂😂😂
Ayo I read that as soon as I saw and I’m out of my chair😂😂😂
I don’t know about you guys, but I always thought the Dodo bird went extinct after coming into contact with an odd herd containing a mammoth, saber tooth tiger, small human, and a deformed sloth. If I remember correctly, the unique herd took the Dodo birds’ last melon and the remaining Dodo’s committed suicide out of pure shame. This video changes everything.
Why does this sound like 'Ice Age’?
@@sonalipradhan9188 cuz that’s literally what it is haha my guy just recapped ice age for a UA-cam comment. Legendary🤣🤣
@@sonalipradhan9188 Because it is hahaha
The laaaaast melon
@@NotEvenSquidward The laaaaaast male
It's honestly sad how we'll never get to see what they really looked and sounded like.
or tasted like
@@fazendojogos2824bro😂
-Colossal Biosciences,
“Hold my beer”
A de-extinction company, are working on bringing back the dodo along with the woolly mammoth. No I’m not kidding. Jurassic park style.
Its not that sad. You just saw a picture of one. Probably made a squawk / clucking sound.
If they were common today, you probably wouldnt care.
@@xlagusa991 He lied on the video, the real reason why the went extinct is me.
I ate them all🥶
I totally blame Diego, Manny, Sid and that Kid for their extinction. They stole their Watermelon
NOT MANNY
It's all kids fault
@@Anone113 fr. I was bit annoyed to that kid back then. 😂
@@Flootsypoolike diary of a wimpy kid
its the kids fault. he was probably dutch
0:43 Jumpscare
Lol
Dat aint scary
Haahhhhaaaaaaahhhhh
It’s honestly sad how what brought them comfort and safety also led to their inevitable extinction.
well... to be fair it's mainly to the anomaly of us ship-building humans that they got extinct. otherwise they'd still be thriving in paradise
How sad ? We'd still be slithering in primordial slime if those evolutionary forces hadn't played out
@@ASAMB12 At some point there would appear a predator trough evolution - if the food supplies would be no longer enough to support growing population of dodos, some dodos would have to evolve to eat other dodos.
it is, now cast your mind to humans....
@@jarlfenrir There is self regulation. If the supplies started to dwindle they would have naturally reduced their population growth until the next bonanza.
Dodo's also have a low birth rate. They basically only laid one egg per year because there was no need to lay more (no predators were eating them) so when people started killing them, they couldn't replace their population fast enough
@Horus-j3fNo, perfect for the environment. There was just no accounting for the Human virus arriving.
Just like white people!
@@alexanderrahl482 you mean animals
Not only did a lack of all concerns *allow* dodos to grow relaxed, it likely *encouraged* it.
In a place without danger, fleeing because a nearby bush rustled wastes energy. The more relaxed dodos had an inherent advantage (until they didnt).
This is my hypothesis at least.
@@SunnanbanaThere was no “culture” here they are birds lmfao
Hmmm good hypothesis, perhaps more likely would be the reason of sexual selection, dodos that ran away from rustling bushes might of been interrupted during mating or seen as cowardly by female dodos.
@@colonelcorn9500animals can develop “culture” like behavior
@@king_kai28 The original person had their channel deleted so I will never know what they said.
At least for thousands years this animal lived in safe beautiful paradise island, ate tasty exotic fruits, nice beaches, slow and easy life. Maybe some little fights between hot head cute young Dodos here and there.
Rest and peace, Dodos! At least your kind didn't end like your cousin, chicken.
Ngl, I kinda curious how Dodo going to taste like in bbq sauce.
The dodos not only forgot their instincts, but 5:03 they forgot how to fly. The reason their eggs are just sitting there on the ground not even hidden is because there was no reason to hide it. Also, people loved eating dodos. The thing is all these factors built up to their extinction. Dont feel too bad. They were doomed either way.
As a fellow Mauritian student, I learned in Grade 5 to 6 that the Dutch were the reason why this big bird is extinct . It is said that one of the reasons why they left the island was because they overkilled what used to be endemic animals on the island .
Edit : No offense towards the Dutch , that is just what I learned. This was before the 17's anyway , so the past is the past .
Bro humans did not exist in that time... YOU are the predator from that island bro
Youre more correct than this stupid content creator… pushing his evolution religion..
@DracoBerry You are predator from island bro
and we'll dodoing do it again
@@draken3793 Do it and they'll sink the Netherlands. Yes that is a threat. 😂🇳🇱
why am I so saddend by their death 😭😭
I know! If they could have been adopted or cared for by people, their fearlessness could have made them great pets. 🦤
@@kennethmartin1300 Exactly.. They were too good for this cruel world.
we could have taken selfies with them like with quokkas
Me too
@@kennethmartin1300 Theres no proof that they arent Alive they technically could still be alive
They sound like amazing potential pets given their lack of timidity. The ultimate cuddle birds.
So is a capybara. The animal version of a couch.
Kind of like the dinosaur equivalent of a capybara.
I want to snuggle with one.
@@ikanmasinyeah except they carry the plauge and stds
No. It's a filthy bird that does nothing but shit everywhere.
"This is Steve"
Me: 😃
"Steve and his friends, died."
Me: 😢
Never name the animals and get too attach to them
this gonna blow up, trust
100%
Frfr sincerely sincerely
OMG how did you predicted that
Just did
It 10 months
The only educational informational video that didn't make me bored watching also how straight to the point and short this is
Unfortunately, it's all false.
@@Fred-mp1vf
Hey Freddy boy, you got anything to back up your claims about how it’s all false?
No, I didn’t think you did.
I do enjoy longer videos tho, it's something nice to listen to while doing stuff
@@Fred-mp1vf right!? It was the Spanish inquisition. These dumb birds were protestant!
@@MrDeathBunny yeah people's attention spans degraded to negative 10000000 hours due to certain lifestyles and "social networks"
As I Dutch person, I was taught that basically we ate them all, because A. they were really tasty and B. they were so easy to catch because they did not run or fly away. I guess the animals we brought along contributed more to the dodo's extinction than I was told, but that might just be the result of fast generalization over a long period of time. Also, I approve of the Dutch bringing cheese joke xD
I heard they weren't even tasty, but giant tortoises were super tasty, and when cooked in tortoise fat, dodos (as well as anything else) would be delicious too. Easy to catch, and making the super good yummy food lasting longer... 😆
Your first point is wrong it was the opposite, the dodo was called "walgvogel" (disgusting bird) for a reason by us.
@@guy_named_steven9912 To scare everyone else away and keep them for yourselves? /j
So in theory if the Dutch didn’t bring their animals the dodos will be domesticated?
Strange, I heard they weren’t good at all. Like they were nasty and oily. So not particularly tasty.
2:04 is cute omg I'm going crazy
Please don't blasphemy God's name
@@PunkDogCreations sorry but not everyone knows that it's "wrong" to say that, but this person is probably not Christian
Do you know why he made that sound?😂😂
@@Tahirkd6-3.7no
As a Mauritian, I never knew other people were told he died because of his low intelligence and slowness, since we were littles we were always told the real reason of this death.
... you?
Yeah that's what people meant when they said they when extincted cause they were stupid
i mean his brain was technically underdeveloped compared to its ancestors so technically it isnt wrong to call it stupid. not entirely accurate but also not entirely wrong
@@stagaries1696 their brain did what they needed. Spot the next fruit and preferably not too far away. Any living thing always seeks the path of least resistance. Given the opportunity, every creature grows lazy and fat. You can see it in pets that are fed too much. I’ve seen a documentary about a group of lions near a small village with lots of life stock. They ate themselves fat but they kept killing for sport as that was their instinct.
THE FUCKING DUCH ! PArti malin ti dir bour zot en dehors la coupe
It’s really a shame because Dodo’s would have made great pets. Literally not defensive or predatory instincts, just a chill animal that would be happy to sit with you while you watch tv, eat a snack, smoke a blunt, drink a beer or do whatever the hell you do while you’re on your couch. We need Jurassic park or a time machine to bring these guys back
How could you teach them that taking a dump on your bed is not allowed if they are not afraid of anything?
@@Sedobr that's the best reply I've ever read
I imagine it would be quite expensive to keep a large semi-tropical bird fed
I get that it has decent traits behaviorally but... it's a 1m tall bird with a large beak and no fear... Also, it might be a herbivore but... just think about how much it would eat... Decent zoo animal, but hell no as a pet...
@@Sedobr reward based training.
As a Mauritian, I was taught at school that the Dutch ate the dodos as it was really easy to catch and the rats ate the eggs. Mauritius Island had the dodo and Rodrigues Island had the solitary bird which is extinct as well.
As a kid, my favourite place to go in Mauritius was jardin pamplemousses. It's labelled as a botanical garden that has never been touched. But thinking about it now, the Dutch didn't leave any of the island untouched. The garden can't be older than 100 years old but it's marketed as being one of the oldest gardens in the world. Still it's cool to see what the island could have looked like
I remember that at school we were taught that Dodo's meat was quite tough and overall not a great food.
Yes I was taught the exact same thing.
@Cor mac That garden was made in the French era so the dutch were not around in that period. That garden must be around 200 years old probably. Fun fact, my father's great grandfather came from India as a businessman and he bought a colonial house which used to be a police station in the French time, we still stay there and that house must be some 200 or 300 years old 😆
@@marcus14659 since half of the island is a nature park and untouched, you can go look at what it would have looked like anytime. The botanical gardens on the other hand are a collection of flora brought from all over the world,to find out what grows best in that environment
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i honestly think these birds probably would've made great pets, i would've absolutely loved to have one as a pet. it upsets me so much that these big fluffy borbs are just gone forever because of how horrible humans can be. they were like the perfect size for cuddling, related to pigeons and doves (who also make good pets), and had like no fight or flight instinct so they would've been so friendly and docile. i really wish those people had at least took some back and bred them in captivity so we'd at least have a domesticated version still around.
Yeah I was gonna comment that!
Breeding attempts for the dodo was nearly impossible during the 17th century. Dodos can lay only one egg at a time due to the limited resources of the island. Many specimens were taken overseas to Europe and Asia but barely a few less than 10 to be percise survived their journeys. Dodo gestation and breeding requirements were unknown at the time. So unlike the chicken that can reproduce many eggs within a short time period also the chicken is known for being a much more hardy and well known bird. Dodos were not seen to be valuable or worth it in societies of the 17th century but during the 19th century their popularity exploded and become today an extinction icon.
nah bc no fight or flight means they cant be potty trained
They had no fight and flight instinct? So they were meat to be extinct then 😂
Cloning dodos has been an idea thrown around for several decades at this point. It's not even a matter of if we can, it's more a matter of the ethics of cloning.
I was always told we hunted them to extinction because they didn't know to run away as soon as they noticed us. They were easy prey on an island between continents, and a good way to stock up on food mid-trip.
food fjust for is trup wouldn't be a=enough to make them go extinct just not enough people.
@@0011peace You're right to an extent. In just a few trips, a few ships wouldn't be able to make Dodos go extinct. However, we didn't do it all at once. It took us 70 years. According to what sources I could find, there were at least around 500 million people around the time of the first recorded sighting of Dodos in the 1500s. If even just 0.01% of those people sailed out there in the 70 years they existed with us, that's 10,000 people, going to an island about 2 times the size of New York City, introducing predators like dogs and cats, while also destroying their habitat, and hunting them ourselves.
You have to remember that they were a relatively small population of birds, that couldn't fly, stuck on a small island along a very commonly travelled trade route. It wouldn't be just a few ships every year, and it wouldn't just be humans. It would be dozens of ships, full of hundreds of hungry sailors, pet cats, aspiring hunters, new diseases, salesmen and plain old travellers. All of whom, sentient or not would want to try this exotic bird that doesn't even run away when you approach. From the standpoint of a sailor that is travelling open ocean, they'd want as much food as they could carry in case something went wrong. Some people likely came exclusively for the chance to try this bird's meat, because of how unique it was. In the same way we wiped out mammoths, giant sloths, and more. We simply showed up, and killed all of them. Sometimes for food. Sometimes for trophy hunting. Sometimes just because we can. It's just how we are. So yes, we definitely couldn't have killed them ourselves, but we didn't do it by ourselves. We brought invasive species, and destroyed their native ecosystem. It wasn't just Dodos that went extinct either. According to the IUCN Red List (International Union for Conservation of Nature) there are 47 extinct species that were native to that island. Not all of them went extinct at the same time, but almost certainly, all of them are pretty much our fault.
Sorry for the rant. Your statement made me curious, so I looked it all up myself.
they were never hunted for the simple fact that dodos were inedible.
@@Mrs.Karen_Walker at least by humans
@@Mrs.Karen_Walker how?
As a mauritian and the fact that what he is saying is quite true and I remember learning about dodo's extinction in 5th grade history class (6 -7 years ago or more I am in highschool btw if you're getting confused ) and basically they were hunted for food and also rats or the animals that were brought in mauritius ate their eggs since they laid eggs on the ground and it's sad to learn that dodo's went extinct because of human cause as child. I really appreciate that you made a video on our national bird and told people the real cause of dodo's extinction.
🤷 I am actually surprised that people before the 2010s didn't learn all this, I have lived in Utah, USA almost all my life and was taught this in elementary school too. 🤔 I expect the worse modern education system, but the the combination of all those reasons are what I learned.
@@BoMwarriorVlog Do they actually teach that the dodo went extinct because of environmental factors, not because people settled the island? I've always known it was invasive species and human factors such as deforestation... I can't even remember where I learned it from, though. (I'm British).
@@Xorthis I don't remember learning about any environmental factors affecting them unless you're talking about settlers clearing some land to be able to have homes and farm.
Gimmie some coochie
@@BoMwarriorVlog That's crazy. It's another of those 'old facts' that schools teach, along with the segmented taste buds and atoms with electrons that orbit like planets. So many times I remember being told 'this is what you need to know now, but later you'll find out what it really is. '
Education fail...
3:52 "i ain't paying child support" ahh dodo
When I learned about the dodo's this was the only reason I heard why they went extinct. Never knew people where spreading a wrong reason.
Saying "the bird was stupid and didn't deserve to live" sounds way better than "humans arriving and not having a shred of respect or understanding of the wonders they just found destroyed the ecosystem of an entire island in as little as 50 years"
where did you get that kind of crappy info.
even when i was like 7 i knew that it was invasive species and human hunting them that drove them extinct.
it's like the first thing you learn about them anywhere, even in children books
@@deinsilverdrac8695 Exactly
@@kunibertrandolf1886 I suppose, but never heard of the too dumb thing till now.
@@daniellclary That's because basically nobody says it. This guy is creating a false narrative he can "destroy" to make it seem like the "truth has been concealed".
They also laid just one egg per year because there was no need to lay more... Very bad when some trouble shows up.
Are you saying they had a one child policy? 😂
@@Ash_G yes. And they more delucious than turkey n chicken combined...i know
@@witchking008 We are talking about extinction in the 1680s. Do your grandparents go back 350 years?
@@Ash_G😂😂😂
Life in mauritus -or any island- isn't easy in the slightest. There's no food (once you over populated so you become very competitive over territoty, mates, etc), water is scarce most of the year, climate is a nightmare, theres typhoons and tsunamis and shit, the're fires, diseases spread quicky and become epidemic (thats the reason why dodos had "featherless faces" for termoregulation and show their health)
What happened to the dodo is what happened to all islands and specially birds. Not necessarily for been "friendly" coz most extinct birds in islands actually fly.
Edit: it's called changes in the habitat and invasive species.
Nice video btw really funny :D
I dunno, life in Australia is pretty good. Lots of food. So I'd have to disagree. :) We don't even have island dwarfism.
@@JezaJames cuz you ain't on an island, and you have fuck ton of animals, both predators and prey, and nowdays there's ton of food everywhere with slight technological advancment so.
@@Rose333X Technically Australia _is_ an island... but by that definition so is every other continent, so nevermind.
@@HowlingWolf518 Hard to really tell what is and isn't an island... cause like you said, just going by "surrounded by water" *everything* is... so then it's got to be size, but at *what point* do you just call it a continent and not and island and vise versa.
@@JezaJames if life is good in an island, which means you are the invasive one.
dont mind these, just some timestamps i wanna save:
2:03
2:46
3:07
3:09
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0:05. No. I've always heard and read that dodos where hunted down for their feathers by European settlers until there were none left.
Due to lack of fight or flight response, they might also have been the friendliest birds to exist, just like Capybaras are friendliest animal to exist.
If its any consolation, penguins are usually indifferent to humans since they have no natural land predators and thus do not percieve us as a threat. Theyre lucky we're in a conservation state and find them cute.
Adelies do seem a bit sassy tho
Sad
It’s weird cause capybaras do have predators. But that doesn’t stop them from chilling.
@@joeybulford5266When you are being hunted by predators but you’re just a chill guy
@@DaLatinKnightin the past, a lot of penguins were killes for fat(fuel) and food
KFD sounds really good, but seriously though there is a batch of scientists looking to revive the Dodo, but I do not think they would survive anything. Honestly look at it this way, they don't run, they don't fly, they don't fear anything and don't fight back, this is literally a definition of perfect domestic farm birds that can be used alongside Chickens.
KFD is not too far a stretch, but it sounds divine to have basically a smaller version of a turkey, bigger than a chicken meal.
They could survive back on the island if they got rid of the predators and reforested big areas to put the birds. It would make a lot of money from tourists going there too. Or they could just make huge areas a nature reserve and fence it off with electric fencing to keep predators out....then put the dodo's in there and let people walk about to look for them at take photos.
If they did clone the Dodo most likely end up in a zoo where they be safe.
What do they taste like? Imagine being the first Dodo brought back. You'd have zero bearings. No parents. No siblings. You don't even know what you like to eat.
@@noahway13 "Dodo Feed" just train them to eat the foods the island they lived on had, but in man made form like chicken feed, modified to fatten up the oversized chicken turkeys
@@jase123111 You are talking about the absolute destruction of an ecosystem, and even if it was done on an island, you are still destroying the habitat of hundreds of animals and species alike. Money or not, KFD is a money maker, Dodo in a zoo is just a waste and doesn't offer anything concrete for people to even interact with the animal. There is still scientific risks as well to remember, like what if they give it DNA of an aggressive animal, look at Jurassic World for that drama in the sake of money
what app did you use for the picture draging
Forget the humourous way he narrates the video.... I'm super impressed with his editing skills. Instant sub.
same
I'm surprised at the other things people say they were told. I learned about Dodos on my own when I was in early grade school (early 2000's) through a biography on tv. I've always remembered something along the lines of "They became so comfortable and fearless because they didn't have any predators for so long, that they grew fat and were no longer able to flee once predators were introduced."
I've always heard Dodos were dumb, but I know that's not why they died. They were gluttons who "had no worries" for too long, thus being too easy to kill. I don't really remember much else on the documentary. I do know that humans killed most nice things out there and continue to do so.
sounds like whats happening is US. kids have it so easy they have lost their ways.
Once a species achieves pure peace, it's like an evil entity destroys them out of spite, like it wants to punish every living thing.
@@Tasorius yeah, it’s called nature
@@astalavista_84 It seems to be an entity beyond nature, like a demon of pure malice that intentionally causes shit to happen...
@@Tasorius perhaps maybe it’s the balance between light and dark (good and evil) that is ideal in our universe. I do wonder why balance seems like such an important thing to our existence though. I keep thinking “if you have something sentient then why would you put it through so much pain?”
It seems irrelevant to my original point and we shouldn’t assume that human ethics applies to everything but idk. Why do we even have our own ethics at all if it doesn’t really mean much?
The universe seems too intentional for something like ethics or other philosophies to be a coincidence.
As a kid the story of the dodo was always framed within the context of human interference and the dangers of not being environmentally conscious. But I think your conclusion here is a far better takeaway from this story. If you stop challenging yourself and get complacent, you make yourself vulnerable. There are no guarantees in life and over the expanse of time the odds of an individual (or in this case, a species) facing a major challenge or threat will eventually hit 100%. Don't let the easy life lure you into being unprepared.
very accurate for our current social climate
Yeah it was human interference that led to the extinction of the Dodo. Kind of like how we're causing the extinction of the Polar bear and countless other species on this planet. The Dodo survived for millions of years longer than homo sapiens have been on this planet and maybe instead of blaming them for their extinction we should learn from the past before we cause our extinction.
Si vis pacem para bellum
If you want peace, prepare for war
This saying is still true to this day
Every citizen around the world need to be able to defend themselves and know how to use weapons to keep peace
Your literally talking like evolution is a conscious choice.....
What you are doing here is called "social darwinism".
Wow, I really enjoyed this video! You did a great job breaking down the complex reasons behind the Dodo's extinction. That said, I can't help but think that sometimes we put too much blame on humans for these extinctions. Nature has its own way of balancing itself, and some species may have just been destined to fade away, you know? It's a tricky debate for sure!
"they didn't die because they were slow, they died because a lack of predators resulted in them becomeing slow"
Yeah, I would say I correctly understood what happened to them.
as a dodo myself, i can confirm that this is how we went extinct
Gasp the last dodo!
@@chewyswing2933 im the last kaua'i 'o'o.
Did you know Steve?
Are you from Hawaii? I was born and raised in Maui haha
@@maxerton
Steve was my mortal enemy
3:47 ''the rats were spawn killing the dodo eggs'' got me rolling on the floor 😂😂
As a Mauritian, I can confirm that this is what we’re taught at school too. Excluding the KFD part…but I wouldn’t be surprised if it would’ve been a thing today 😂
help i read that as martian and I thought your comment was sarcastic
so you have seen the dinosaur
Not sure the history of the place, but I guess even if the Dutch didn’t arrive, they’d be doomed regardless because other settlers like you would’ve arrived
I remember some kids were crying at a park once
apparently they had found the "last dodo"
it probably was only just a pigeon but the swollen head and beaks and small wing seems .eh
....
It is a thing, it's called Kentucky Fried Dog.
I think Elwoods sells them.
The only thing that I'm confused by is how the dodo lived for 4 million years predator free without over populating the island and running out of food.
Since things like the deer in Yellowstone without wolves kinda destroyed the ecosystem
Perhaps they evolved the ability to regulate their population?
Because deer, for want of a better phrase, evolved _with_ their predators to keep them in check, in a land of scarce resources. A form of symbiosis, if you will. Remove one part of the equation, and it falls apart.
Mauritius apparently was Mana Island, and the dodos couldn't consume enough resources to make a dent in the ecology; presumably because they evolved _with_ that ecology. My two cents, for what it's worth.
@@alexanderchen1049 it could be it wasn't bc of 4m years of evolution. It could be possible it was just the last type of birds their species mated with. In 4 mil year u really think that no others slowly added to their gene pool. Thru time I bet they kept adding different types of birds in their genes an then mutated to this point by the last gene of birds they mated with.
If I recall correctly the dodos did not have a prolific amount of offspring. They replaced themselves more slowly so I think this made up for not having predators...basically they didn't breed like rabbits. This also was part of their downfall. Kind of like pandas, they suck at breeding too.
one of the reason could be that Dodo's main source of food came from high up in the tree and being flightless birds all they could do was wait for the fruit to fall. In a sense their population was regulated by trees and season.
Which in contrast with the deer, their food source grew very close to where they could easily overgraze .... you get the idea
It's amazing how close modern humans are to dodos
We do have machine guns and even though we lost our ability to fly a couple of generations ago, at least we have fighter jets that somewhat make up for it.
Unfortunetly.
@@edwardjohansson2909wait you lost your ability to fly? I still have it, though everyday those damn scientists try to say i’m “breaking the laws of gravity”
Extinction is looming!
@@demon_spawn1535 💀
Your editing and just the content in this video are so impressive that I thought you had more subscribers. Really underrated.
yhhhh man
The accent plays a role
Seriously? The number of flashing visuals in the first three seconds alone could induce discomfort and maybe even epileptic response. Modern day video apparently has to be this rabid. I'm amazed there aren't more camer angle and stance jumps to elicit even more distraction.
“The history of the entire world I guess” vibes
Its maybe a music video, just not a scientific one. A piece of scientifiic garbage in fact.
I appreciate the scientist for traveling back in time to record all of this
As a scientist who traveled back in time to record this I'm very grateful that atleast someone shows appreciation.
@@HypnosisBear no problem 🙏🔥
fairy tales for adults
@@futile-evenings Huh? You mean religion and spirituality?
This is great. The previous two replies are effing stupid. Original comment is gold 👌
Another thing you forgot to add is that we found them particularly tasty, and when they were hunted they had this cry for help which when heard by other dodos they would rush to come and help, this would obviously prove to not be very helpful when Steve's kind was being hunted and the hunters just got a lot of more free meals
Edit: Thanks for everyone that corrected me on that the dodo wasn't tasty
incorrect. the dodo tasted very badly.
@@marshmallowmann20 how you know that?
@@fabolvaskarika7940 he went back in time to taste the dodo
@@fabolvaskarika7940 Dodo meat was said to be a very oily and tough meat. They were hardly hunted to eat as the humans preferred parrot or pigeon.
@@fabolvaskarika7940 we have various amount of documents on that, as well as stories that the humans on the island didn't kill them for their meat but bonked their heads out of boredom and left them to rot.
Actually we all miss the Dodo by its character its friendlyness. We as Mauritians we love the Dodo so much and so many people around the world love the enigmatic Dodo. It's heart warming to see how Dutch people love the Dodo too even what history said about their extinction. Hope to see the Dodo back someday with new technologies and researches that are being done.
I remember hearing different stories throughout the years. When I was really small, i was told that it was because the Dodo didn't reproduce enough because they were lazy. Then it was because they couldn't fly and we're totally eaten by other animals, and then, they were killed by humans
Kuntucky fried dodo!!! lol
I was just told they were stupid, then I learned humans ate em from an episode of Wildkrats
@@Newport20 Humans didn't eat them. Apparently their meat was horrible no matter how you cooked it.
@VideoDeadGaming oh my b. I just remember one of the villan dudes cooking them
@@Newport20 They were eaten as a source of protein in the very early days of colonistion, just not a particularly tasty or flavoursome bird. After the introduction of the Madagascan Tenrec people preferred that to the Dodo.
I am so sad about Steve and his friends. Good news they are bringing the Dodo back from extinction!
We haven't brought back anything from extinction successful, should probably wait until they bring back the mammoth before assuming the thylacine, dodo, and cave lion have a chance.
@engineer gaming Correction: probably great great great great great great grandchildren
@@LeoTheYuty YOu haven't seen the news. They're planning to do it. Underway.
Geneticists have been talking about bringing back extinct animals using biogenetic manipulation for quite some time and it's been "underway" for years. My guess is that the major issue would be the changing of the RNA in Earth's virome. Any newly revived species would probably be poorly equipped to handle modern viruses, but this is just my theory as to the complications involved. I also assume it would be a painstakingly complicated task to genetically modify their immune systems to cope, but that is just an assumption. Of course there are many other implications that would lead one to believe an extinct species wouldn't last long if it were brought back - considering it went extinct in the first place. However this differs when dealing with animals that were recently hunted to extinction as I imagine their immune systems could potentially be ok.
@@JezaJames I have seen the news. It's pretty clear they're just trying to go viral before they have any idea how they're going to do it.
When I asked my father why the dodo bird went extinct, he told me about how the rats ate all their eggs so they couldn't reproduce. While I'm glad he didn't lie to me(which is a thing he did way too often), I now know about the other info he left out. Then again, I don't blame him for not telling me every single detail because I was only about six at the time.
He probably didn't know. I don't think he was protecting you from anything. You might need protecting though because you seem very simplistic in your thinking.
I was told that they all died out because people ate them all, I guess people could have brought animals to the island as well
@@HoorayTV21 What do you mean?
he means he's a dick is what.
@@ravenandpawprint1142 he's insulting you
Saying the rats "were literally spawnkilling their eggs" was awesome.
-“You’ve been lied to.”
-Tells me exactly the same story.
Yeah, not much knew was told here
Being so kind is deadly.. lesson learned.
"don't mistake my kindness for weakness" ok to be kind, just don't let abusers use you..
And I learnt that the hard way. (I mean igot bullied a lot cause i didn’t toughen up
Bro dumb as dodo fr 😂
They are so weak dude humans was overkill to them
This guy should do more videos of possible. The way he puts the info out is funny and easy to remember
very true, i loled so hard when he said the rats spawnkilled the eggs lmao
@@sayhowling right as I read that he said it
@@maazuponvelocity it's crazy how often I do that, read a comment as it's playing. DOES THAT MEAN WE'RE PSYCHIC!!! 🫠🫠
@@Jo-the-fixer Nah, probably fate
The closest I will ever get to interacting with a Dodo is by playing Animal Crossing.
4:25 so we blame the Dutch...
Thanks alot you did a great job all of you guys (the people who got rid of dodos)
Oh c’mon I’m not that old!
2:50 "Steve had the defence stats of a vegetable "😂
There probably would be dodo farms if they hadn't gone extinct when they did. You'd have to breed some fear back into them to help them survive off the island, but people have been pretty good at that kind of thing with most critters.
According to some accounts. They didn't taste nice
@@lolkhars3525 well there goes that KFD
@@lolkhars3525 Main issue was the greasiness according to accounts. Just thoroughly drain the grease when cooking. Also, the eggs were probably fine.
I think the fact that they didn't run or fly away, and you could just walk up to them and do pretty much whatever you wanted means they would have been the easiest animal in the world to keep as livestock. Like.. the most domesticated animal in existence, from birth with no training necessary at all. Too bad they weren't captured, protected, and raised as such.
@@lolkhars3525 I mean just add some herbs and spices you cowards.
The dodo didn’t go extinct,it just got discovered again,alive
I love the “history of the entire world I guess” style, it makes it so good
"Uh oh! It's Europe!"
Basically, world history in a nutshell. lol
When i was studying about this bird as a child in school i was so happy by hearing their name and seeing how cute they look and then i was so sad that they went extinct 💔
Ditto (RE: the Dodo).
3:28 how bro get footage of that
Hard times create strong birds
Strong birds create easy times
Easy times create weak birds
Weak birds create hard times
Weak bird times 😞
bro when joe rogan said that 😮💨❤️🩹
difficulties cause weakness in birds and death. good, simple and easy lives help birds be healthier and eventually stronger
Man, this is some brilliant stuff! ❤I didn't initially plan to watch the whole video, because I essentially know the story, but I stayed till the end and had a lot of fun. :D You've got a great sense of humor and I love the editing style. Keep it coming! :)
Lol - you stayed to the end? Heroic effort considering it was 5 mins long. :)
@@JezaJames Haha, yeah, I know. :D
I was thinking the same it was awesome proper funny
Too bad none of it is true.
I wish they still existed because they seem amazing
Yeah, i have a small dodo puppet sitting next to me.
But i heard some genetic science lab wanted to restore the dodo's...
*Soon the dodo's will be back, and you shall fear them*
@@blinking_dodo ready to yeet them just like in Ark
Or delicious honestly the Dutch were the dumbest people ever not to think that a bird that is big and fat that does not run away from you would not be a good farm animal.
Yeah, I wonder how they tasted...single one would've been great
They'd probably get treated like chickens & turkeys
UA-cam's algorithm is so funny, I wrote a comment about tipping needing to go the way of the Dodo and now my feed is serving up dodo videos. Haha😜
2:47 why
steves brain is being fried
@@caboose8110that should count as torture
@@-dude-0 kfc
furry
Popeyes
Atlas Pro has a great videos (at least one focusing on Dodos) if anyone wants to see a bit longer and more comprehensive explanation of the different evolutionary island phenomena. Dodo is a great example of both island gigantism and island tameness. They probably were not particularly stupid comapared to other birds, they just had no need to be aware of predators, and people laughing at their stupidity is like a school bully emotionally torturing the shit out of someone and then laughing and calling them a crybaby when they cry.
Intelligence is actually pretty metabolically expensive, and animals are generally only as smart as they need be. I believe recent studies found that their brains were about the size you'd expect for their body size, but there's more than just brain size, such as folds.
I guess my point is that we don't know!
Thing is the dodo isn't the only bird that disappeared at that time in this region, there was the solitaire bird that was endemic to the Rodrigue island but no one talks about this one for some reason. The circumstances were mostly the same as far as I am aware.
@@TheAdriennoel yeah, and there have also been dozens if not over hundred bird species that went extinct in Hawaii after western settling. But dodo is a stiking example because they were so extreme cases of island gigantism and tameness that they were noticed as an oddity.
@@wombat4191 Yeah ig so, for it's appearance and all the difference to the specie it comes from is pretty surprising
Sailors actually noted that the Dodos were fast and they'd often hurt the men trying to hunt them
*bite, really doubt they'd actually cause harm besides the painful bite
@@LeoTheYuty Biting, clawing. I phrased it weirdly, but I meant to write that dodo's would hurt men hunting them
@@invalleria perhaps
@Leo the Yuty perhaps?Bruh people literally died due to dog bites at that time
@@LeoTheYuty theyhve very large beaks an that could do some damage. Ever been killed in the balls.
Don’t forget that the elephant bird also had a rough time you know
Imagine not having the flight or fight reflex. Probably feels like heaven
Being totally no fucks given? Must feel really good, until someone gives a fuck
Ikr
@gizmo idc I still don't want my fight or flight system
Autopilot mode
@@Iwanttoblowmybrainsoutrn Relatable.. it's keeping me away from my dreams and people, but I need it for dangerous scenarios🏃
As a Mauritian I appreciate you making a video about our national bird.
I'm from Wales and hoping he does one about dragons.
@@PhilJonesIII lol
@@PhilJonesIII that would be interesting
Real 🇲🇷MAURITANIAN!
@@prdmore1 thats not the flag
4:39 This Vitamin Joke is actually more serious then you think: We along with other apes and guina pigs lost our abbility to produce vitamin c.
I can't believe this video is 2 years old! I remember when it came out and blew up and made so many of us laugh while we learned. Cheers Reece and look forward to all you put out there :)
If anything I’m glad you put this video out there for all the people that are surprised. Since that means they had no idea what invasive species are and why it matters. That being said, I was a little dinosaur nerd as a kid and tangentially heard alot about other extinct species like Dodo. I was thrilled to finally visit the British Museum and see the skeleton and taxidermy in person. Despite all the sins of the contemporaries (and that museum) at least someone had the sense to preserve a few of those skeletons.
Unfortunately I don't believe it's a lack of understanding, it's a lack of caring. Half of all people seem to not care about anything that's beyond a arms reach.
I feel that Dodos can serve as a life lesson. As humans have gotten advanced technology, we've started getting lazier and less adapt to surviving in the nature. There could come a time where we lose all of the technology we rely so heavily on and won't know how to survive without it, causing our extinction.
this is so very true and I agree with it. nothing is better than man made with genuine good intentions for nature.
WALL-E is the future of humans
Sounds like the plot of H.G. Wells’ “Time Machine”.
Dont worry, even if this event come to pass humanity won't go extinct, lots of people may die, but humanity as a race will survive, taking our current state i.e. however we cant guarantee it in the future
That's your life lesson? The fact that human causes this to happen doesn't tick you off? I guess European always have this kind of mindset. As long as it is not me then everything is okay. Screw everything else around me as long as I am okay.
The editing of this video is not only hilarious but does an absolutely impressive job of keeping me engaged just wow
Now-days EVERYONE suffers from short-attention-span syndrome
this is Bill Wurtz stile (history of japan in 8 minutes)
There is a close relative to the dodo, called Rodrigues solitaire that lived in the Rodrigues island. That’s where it gets its name from.
It has come to my attention that this video has, quite recently, recieved a rather large influx of viewers. To all new subscribers welcome! I've been out of the game for a while but I'm glad to say I am now firmly back in my editing chair and working to get a new video out ASAP.
hoi
I hope you do more with prehistoric animals, I love your sense of humor for this kind of thing
i just got it recommended lol
it's a decent video, looking forward for more!
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This was pretty much what I was taught except it wasn't just rats but pigs that ate the eggs. That and the Dodo tasted awful so people didn't bother hunting them as a food source. I think the problem today their lack of fight or flight instinct got lost in translation in the form of the old joke of them being so stupid to the point of suicidal behaviour like jumping off cliffs thinking they could fly somehow got accepted as fact.
That remind me of the lemmings since people also think they jump off a cliff
3:46 rats werent actually a big problem I think, dodos protected eggs from crabs and things, not sure tbh
Well rats are smarter that crabs, they also doing same with another endangered species of birds now
@@botagozmukataeva5297 true
I was literally OBSESSED with dodos growing up and i just loved how they were built and they looked so friendly… but then when i realised they were extinct i started crying. Imagine just having a dodo roaming around in your backyard
I remember being told they went extinct because they were all turned into thanksgiving turkey 😂 Very informative video! Covered a lot without being too much, and also entertaining.
💀💀💀😭 Thanksgiving turkey
American education be like 💀
@@kirylyeustratau8092 so sad that they dont teach what a hyperbole is in your backwater country
Thanksgiving dodo.
well, sort of. The thing is this video is a bit misleading. Humans brrought predators. It's the same schtick with the indians. 'it were illnesses that killed off the indians'. Doesn't make betrayal, murder and greed ok. And still, the supposed pathogens wouldn't be there if people didn't cross the ocean. Australia has had loads of troubles with whatever the hell humans brought with them. They evovled very strict laws concerning stuff you bring there.
Bro your editing style is exactly what I'm looking for. Goofy and hilarious at the same time. Keep making more content please!
exactly like Bill Wurtz
His editing and humour reminds me of Internet historian
@@juma__ “The history of the entire world I guess” vibes
How dare everyone disrespect the dodo: the ultimate life form.
I agree in a non ironical way, they had beaten the game and were continuing to play in endless mode, living the golden
life of a retired person with big savings. Only they depended on their envirnonment not being altered
In a nutshell, easy mode enjoyer was forced into hard competitive.
Extremely well made video. A good combination of humour and information. I love it, keep up the good work!
Too bad it's all false.
Yea it goes against many academic studies
@@thesagaofdarrenshanfanchan793 can you provide one? /gen
Excellent video mate, loved it, keep making them
appreciate the support so much! thankyou :)
@@reecebatts2 make more man