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| Dodo's were comparatively quite smart; And definately not the dumb bird everyone portrays them as | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 23 2016, 06:47 PM (982 Views) | |
| Yi Qi | Feb 23 2016, 06:47 PM Post #1 |
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Some interesting news on Dodo brains. http://www.amnh.org/about-the-museum/press-center/dodos-might-have-been-quite-intelligent Edited by Yi Qi, Feb 23 2016, 06:48 PM.
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| Paleodude | Feb 23 2016, 07:14 PM Post #2 |
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I called it, they weren't stupid, just trusting. Now I feel even worse for being a human now that I know the truth about what we did. |
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| Yi Qi | Feb 23 2016, 07:37 PM Post #3 |
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I wouldn't say trusting as much as curious, they didn't have much contact with humans before we arrived, and probably had no idea what the hell we were so they had no instinctive fear of us, and their curiosity got the better of them. |
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| Paleop | Feb 23 2016, 07:46 PM Post #4 |
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Paleopterix
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curiosity extincted the dodo. |
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| stargatedalek | Feb 23 2016, 09:08 PM Post #5 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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Honestly does not surprise me. Being related to pigeons it really was already the conservative assumption they were quite intelligent. |
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| Incinerox | Feb 23 2016, 09:27 PM Post #6 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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You guys act like humans did things. Nobody actually hunted and ate them. The few that dared to eat dodo meat actually described it as being anywhere between tasteless and outright revolting. Hell, the first Dutch sailors that found them actually named them "Walghvogel". which literally means disgusting bird or something like that. Curiosity didn't get them killed. A combination of their ground nesting habits and introduced animal species like rats, cats, dogs pigs and macaques did the job instead. It's good to see their brains are getting a bit more credit that they so rightfully deserve. |
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| CyborgIguana | Feb 23 2016, 10:28 PM Post #7 |
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Well humans were still indirectly responsible in that they brought said invasive animals with them (whether intentionally or not). |
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| Incinerox | Feb 24 2016, 03:49 AM Post #8 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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But it was not their ignorance and supposed stupidity in the face of humanity that got them killed, which was the point I was trying to make. |
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| babehunter1324 | Feb 24 2016, 11:49 AM Post #9 |
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As stargate said before considering that Dodo's are members of Collumbiforma is not weird that they were pretty intelligent for a bird... By the way, apart from the introduction of invasive species, was there any significant deforestation or increase in forest fires during the XVII century in Mauritius that could had contributed in it's demisse? Also is quite interesting to see that Dodo's did indeed had enlarged olfactory bulbs, they really behaved in a rather similar way to pigs... Competition with them probably also contributed to their extinction. |
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| Incinerox | Feb 24 2016, 01:51 PM Post #10 |
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It makes reasonable sense for them to have a decent sense of smell. The fruit of the tambalacoque tree is a preferred food source for most of the island's native fauna (think something like a green or brown peach). Naturally, the dodo was using its sense of smell to track down fallen fruit across the island. It was said that the dodo and tree were so reliant on each other that the tree's seeds actually needed to pass through the gut of a dodo, specifically the dodo, for germination to work. So for a long time it was thought the species actually went into complete evolutionary stasis when the dodo was wiped out. Turns out that while it's not ideal, tortoises, turkeys and artificial pit scraping seems to work to some degree as a sort of substitute to get the species germinating again. It doesn't work as well as it should, but it's better than nothing. Edited by Incinerox, Feb 24 2016, 01:54 PM.
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