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Extinct Birds.

One way to go extinct: Be delicious and clumsy. Or, in the case of the dodo, just be extremely easy to catch, and nest on the ground where newly-introduced dogs and rats can easily eat your eggs. Dodos were not particularly tasty, but they had easy-to-cure meat, and were fat.

Top Left: Great Auk

Top Right: Spectacled Cormorant

Bottom: Dodo Bird

Extinct Birds. Hon. Walter Rothschild, 1907

(Reblogged from scientificillustration)

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    Auk, Spectacled Cormorant, Dodo Bird
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    R.I.P. Never Forget
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    God’s Little Eskimo wrote a song about the extinction of Great Auks. I get so angry and sad when I read stuff like this.
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