Why DODOS Actually Went EXTINCT | Island Biogeography 1

Part one of three! Most people know only two things when it comes to the dodo: they were stupid, and now they are extinct. But this simplistic view leaves out the full picture. In this video, we're exploring the many reasons why dodos ended up extinct, as well as the larger evolutionary forces at play.
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www.jstor.org/stable/2844594
www.geo.arizona.edu/Antevs/ec...
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/na...
web.stanford.edu/group/stanfo...
cgab.yale.edu/projects/ancien...
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Extinc...
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[@charlesmurray257]

Evidence suggests that the dodos were wiped out by a wisecracking sloth, and his friends a mammoth with a dark past, and a cunning sabretooth.

[@ccvcharger]

There's also reason to believe that there may have been a juvenile human in their company.

[@lukegenesis]

This is gold 😂😂🤣

[@brotlowskyrgseg1018]

"There goes our last female..."

[@samuelpaech5628]

The laaaaaast melon…

[@MrWacck]

Yes, I seem to remember having seen that documentary

[@zachcrawford5]

It amazing that no one in that colony tried to raise dodo's like livestock.

[@mflax4331]

The livestock we have cannot be compared to wild animals because they have been "domesticated", which means nothing less than changed. And that takes time, which the Dodo did not have between settling humans and extinction of their species.

[@greenandgold2185]

@@mflax4331 what are you talking about? The dodo bird was so domesticated because of its natural environment they didn't need to domesticate it. All they had to do was capture them and feed them. Just like chickens. Scramble dodo eggs. And since the 50 people of that time went extinct also that should answer the question. Dodo smart...human dumb

[@malter87]

@@greenandgold2185 this is not minecraft, lmao capture it and feed it 🤣🤣🤣 problem solved, lol

[@mflax4331]

@@greenandgold2185 Do you know the meaning of the term "domesticated"? Your answer seems to hint that you don't know it.

[@greenandgold2185]

@@malter87 so then just put a fence around all the fruit they are eating pick the fruit feed them capture them kill them eat them breed them just like the real world. We domesticate wild animals by feeding them and making them dependent on us and not fear us. I'm sure there are many other Minecraft referencing comments on here to associate with. My wife said it reminded her of the movie WALL-E our kids watched. (The part about getting to fat to fly)

[@ziggerotstask6287]

"You could walk up to them, and beat them with a club" *gets ARK flashbacks*

[@thegreatestleaderstalin3369]

Lol same flash backs🤣🤣🤣 of ark

[@thegreatestleaderstalin3369]

Pro hunt : oblesence completed Reward:dodo trophy🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@smileygoldfish]

Ah yes, birds that scream and struggle to walk slowly away when getting killed.

[@helluvq.]

*sniff sniff * I have killed 2 hundred dodos8

[@pogiako1389]

Lol hahahah

[@redasurvival1876]

"So it doesn't bite ?i can get close and pet it right?" **Pulls out sharp stick with malicious intent**

[@Soth021]

Reminds me of this Fluffy Video kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWPSqIh_aZp5gpI :-)

[@ButterManisreal]

if you wanna know where kiwis come from look here kzbin.info/www/bejne/jomam4eDmaeGhtk

[@NazriB]

Lies again? IMF Green Pink

[@ppenmudera4687]

'Why dodos actually went extinct' Me, a Dutch: *sweats intensely*

[@jamesonlegend]

*nervous looks*

[@pepijnm.7240]

Hetzelfde

[@fernandoavila3929]

Tiptoeing out of the room

[@metalwarrior4476]

just euh gonna leave this here and we shall not talk about it again

[@Nelsea7190]

anyone up for some wings here??

[@Tsuchimursu]

Imagine having giant docile birds as farm animals sounds like the goal of every farm animal breeder

[@erichvondonitz5325]

I think they're easy to take care since they are usually friendly

[@CatsAreAmazing8187]

@@erichvondonitz5325 were* 😭

[@Czesin]

@@erichvondonitz5325 well that depends on if they fit the rules of domestication

[@shorewall]

The Turkey is the better Dodo. :D

[@michaelr3583]

@@shorewall that we will never know for sure

[@rachelcookie321]

When I was like 5 years old it was my dream to have a pet tiny elephant and I wanted to become a scientist and genetically engineer a tiny elephant despite the ethical implications. You don’t understand how crushed I am to hear there used to be tiny elephants but they went extinct before I could have a pet one.

[@katestyrsky329]

Maybe there's an elephant-inhabited island somewhere? So if you wait long enough, the elephants there will be worked on by island dwarfism-- and there's your adorable little pet!

[@Mega-rw8mt]

@@katestyrsky329 they wouldn't live to see the say :(

[@skittlescout4378]

Baby elephant ? Good luck on engineering a tiny elephant , once you get to the stage of making one , I would love to buy one ☺️✨💕

[@rachelcookie321]

@@skittlescout4378 baby elephants grow up. Sadly not going to be happening as it would be very illegal.

[@funwithfish1507]

@@rachelcookie321 my plan for the future ( and I’m dead serious about this) is to .become a cardiac surgeon .buy some land in a nice place like New Zealand or Australia . CRISPR up some pets in a legal country . Get them imported . Die

[@darkburd8786]

Moral of the story: when evolving keep the ability to fly because that shit is cool as fuck.

[@yuhan4469]

I'm pretty sure evolution likes to fuck around with it's mutations

[@mr.snaplles5964]

Monkey to the dodo: peace has cost you your strength victory has defeated you

[@clintcarpentier2424]

Where's that line from? I stealing it!

[@SoraYoshi182]

@@clintcarpentier2424 It's from the Dark Knight Rises. Bane says it to Batman.

[@chrisbrooks7469]

Bupcom taldes nihy

[@beezlebub7847]

Stupidity has defeated the DoDo

[@rageraptor7127]

@@beezlebub7847 clearly haven’t watched the video

[@profwaldone]

this story is actually actively taught in dutch schools and museums as a cautionary tale of just how badly you can fuck up if you aren't carefull.

[@sarfarazmungloo4481]

It’s also taught in primary schools in Mauritius.

[@itsmeok6205]

It was taught in my school in canada but my sister who went to a different school was never taught it

[@yrok244]

Goddamn American schools should teach this. Every moronic middle-aged adult uses the Dodo as the butt of a joke when in reality the species was the victim of carelessness and neglect.

[@206beastman]

@@yrok244 victim of a white man

[@jamesevans7510]

American schools do teach this the idea that no one knows the real reason is a complete fallacy I have literally never met someone who bought the dodos died because they were stupid

[@Josh-oc7ib]

Dang, imagine coming up to a dodo bird that literally doesn’t fear you and it’s like “what’s up ?” Only to beat it to death with a club.

[@Corianas_]

Honestly, this is a great explanation for many modern humans. Oversized, unable to fight back, and totally tamed with the availability of food.

[@slay-r349]

LMAO

[@whythehecknot5038]

Guess we'll go extinct

[@YetAnotherUser108]

Hope you took the whackscene. I did, to get my free donuts ❤

[@somecutepuppy3125]

Modern discord mods*

[@mrcar2237]

We just need to get robots and we are gonna go extinct (by intelligence lowering as we get everything by laying and saying somethin)

[@user-cx9nc4pj8w]

Ah yes, the problems with playing on a non-competitive server...

[@smailye3311]

The dodo server hade easy mode smh

[@rayvenhd387]

@@smailye3311 peaceful*

[@luckyluciano1584]

A Dutchman has joined the game

[@jovan-noble-guy749]

Yeah, it ' s so unfair, you have to walk thousands of blocks away to avoid the full-netherrite armor dushbags

[@KringleDingle]

pls dont shoot im friendly

[@Kenodan.]

*"why dodo's extinct"* Ark Player : **sweat nervously*

[@goddessxyri]

Funny guy 🤣

[@crepy_0693]

Me salty sweating after hunting dodos for 3 hours

[@Emperor_fries]

I tame dodos by punching them to their death and feed them

[@kekoamitchell8709]

Me when I wake up and hear that sound 🤫

[@fwavie]

🤣

[@swampertdeck]

“Left the island rich in plant life, but poor in animal life. Well, except for one kind of animal: birds.” What about insects? Aren’t those usually the first animals to populate islands? They can fly and are transported by wind too. There are countless unique and endangered species of island insects.

[@thegreatestleaderstalin3369]

You are right

[@kevinluna8411]

Spoken like an entomologist

[@thegreatestleaderstalin3369]

Entomologist??

[@nathanmaxson4751]

I think he meant larger animals. Most people don't immediately thinks of bugs when someone says animals

[@thegreatestleaderstalin3369]

@@nathanmaxson4751 I know

[@AntoniusTyas]

Ah, island dwarfism. Imagine being a sauropod on a small island who can easily be killed by a gigantic azhdarchid pterosaur.

[@normdeshon665]

In college I learned that about 80 years after the dodos went extinct, scientists noticed a tree species with no trees younger than 80 years on the island. They had to scarify seeds (scraping, acid?) to simulate dodo digestion.

[@purplelotus9064]

Yep tombalacoque

[@dinozyx]

Oh wow I learnt that when I was 8-

[@who-pz4ck]

@@dinozyx wow

[@recordedbeast4466]

@@dinozyx I’m taking a shit, figured I’d let you know

[@dinozyx]

@@recordedbeast4466 wow, same!

[@jamesalbert4954]

Im very impressed of how detailed and accurate this video is. As a mauritian, I noticed that most people know about the bird, but not about their origin and history. Keep it up

[@amiralcookie3221]

C'est parce que c'est une espèce iconique, elle est aussi très connue par sa très tragique fin. Donc c'est pour ça que le dodo est bien connu et c'est pour ça que c'est notre emblème. C'est aussi pour ça que les dodos sont partout dans les boutiques pour touristes (genre à casela ou cascavel...)

[@ekstat1c]

Wow great lie. Cant prove you're lying but you are....yikes.

[@chickenblorp4884]

@@ekstat1c keep it to yourself

[@attractivetoast5079]

@@ekstat1c and why exactly would you think he's lying? I'm Mauritian aswell and this is something we learn in history classes in primary school.

[@jimbo_1312]

@@ekstat1c seems like a weird thing for somebody to lie about and the only weirdo in this thread is you soooo 🤷‍♂️

[@blistlelo1700]

I had always loved these majestic creatures since a kid and I really thought it was unfair when textbooks calling them dumb and stupid for being isolated from predators for thousands of years and fearless towards humans similar to the Warrah. Those were one of my favorite extinct animals in Zoo Tyccoon 2 together with the thylacine and the game seems to agree with me since they are excellent magnets for guests early in the game. I found them cute, funny and charming and it's a tragedy that they went extinct.

[@djungelskog3434]

i think this can actually be applied to us and any extraterrestrial beings as well, considering we are isolated from the rest of the universe

[@Grim2]

**Humans introduce predators in Australia** Emu's: [[maniacal laughter]]

[@mr.mystery6429]

Emu war in a nutshell: -Humans become allies with agriculture. -Emus declared war on farm produces. -Humans declared war on Emus. -Emus won with ~1k dead with 19k remaining. -Humans declared victory against Emus. -Fences became allies with agriculture and Humans.

[@skaisnotdead]

*laughs in cassowary*

[@deathtrooper2048]

@@mr.mystery6429 How many humans died?

[@mr.mystery6429]

@@deathtrooper2048 none but Emus reeked havoc on the farms and they’re allies, way to defend the crops.

[@kyumi_miko]

@@mr.mystery6429 Nah humans lost against the mighty emus on my book

[@kassavfaqurizary7546]

Imagine if Dodo instead of being mauled to death and driven to extinction they take 'em as a pet. We would have easy to tame and friendly chicken.

[@nullhazard7569]

Nice idea, but the dodo was essentially inedible to humans. It was referred to as the nauseating bird because no amount of cooking could make it edible.

[@tenderandmoist5011]

Well consider we were not the only animals introduced to the island, keeping them as pets would be impossible and pointless to the people of that era, they still have no way of detecting danger which means if you don't want your dodo pet to die a horrible death you'd have to keep watch 24/7 because they are even defenceless against rats that spread from the ships which is impossible since they have y'know a job, people also were not keeping pets for emotional support like we do today, pets back then often serves a purpose, like hunting of herding or shows off your wealth, and dodo fits none of those. And before you ask, yes they could not be kept as farming animal either, imagine how hard it is to keep 1 and multiply it by a couple dozen

[@No-pi1wo]

@@thegreatestleaderstalin3369 Ark is a game

[@marieindia8116]

@@tenderandmoist5011 sounds like a chicken or a sheep to me...

[@own4801]

It didn't happen because their meat tasted bad and they barely layed any eggs.

[@michaelwiebers9656]

I am so awed by You Tube. It even introduced me to Atlas Pro. It feels wonderful to learn new things after college and an old man of 74. My field of study was biology in general and entomology specifically, Thank you for this enterprise.

[@LACHAMPS4TO1]

Subscribed after watching this and legit bummed it's so new. I want the whole series now 😅 when you said "I can't go into all this right me" in my head, I was like, wait... why not? 🤣

[@vgbombay5435]

You’re telling me it wasn’t because Manny, Sid, Diego and the baby took their last melon??? I’ve been bamboozled, Decieved, led a stray. 😂

[@HyperVanilo]

There is another Dodo that get blasted by a geyser and instantly turned into a cooked Dodo

[@ChazTB]

@Gobzo Raon when?

[@magistrumartium]

To run amok (not "run a muck") is to behave wildly, violently.

[@akhilldhilipkumarkalaiyara1601]

r/boneappletea

[@enso8762]

run a muck? 🤦‍♂️

[@ariannasilva4462]

Man if Dodo's still existed we couls have had them as pets! They were so docile it wouldn't have taken long.

[@imoneixusa9742]

I know right! 😭

[@fenrirgg]

There is the kakapo, a giant docile parakeet, but no one has one of them as a pet because it's very specialized to live in an isolated island in New Zealand, maybe dodos would be very hard to breed elsewhere as the kakapo is, who knows.

[@ariannasilva4462]

@@fenrirgg You make a good point. Since egg breading is harder than mammal breeding.

[@MethLord]

@@fenrirgg "Shagged by a rare parrot"

[@hondaaccord1399]

I live in misery. That would be so cool

[@willhackbarth5771]

Love these, I am obsessed with islands and this puts it’s perfectly

[@Estebam01]

I'm glad that i've got this on my recommendation feed even tho I'm mauritian, I've now learn that we got even more fantastic birds that got extinct due to human population

[@nothereanymore3941]

Imagine if instead of hunting them to extinction we had appreciated their lack of fear and aggression and domesticated them. They would've made for amazing livestock and pets, tho probably relatively expensive to feed.

[@Rafael-qd3yq]

They could have become like chicken. So there would be no danger in eating them cuz there would be many of them

[@porosnax2269]

true, they could have domesticated and raised them.

[@billyumbraskey8135]

they didnt make the cut because we already had other animals adapted for this purpose.

[@porosnax2269]

@@billyumbraskey8135 😢😢😢😢😢

[@simonj3413]

They may or may not have even been tameable though, like I don’t know if they ever bred in captivity

[@nashvin1982]

I was born and live in Mauritius, and have been a long time subscriber of yours. I love your usual content. It made me so happy to see my little island featured in your video today. Thank you for dispelling the widespread myth that the dodo on our coat of arms was but a stupid animal. Keep pumping fascinating content!!!

[@GB-ym2wc]

Do you still live there? What is it like to visit when traveling is possible of course.

[@aleisterlavey9716]

Would you be OK with deextincting the Dodo by the occult power, that Science will bring us to?

[@Waroyopfami]

@@aleisterlavey9716 I am a Mauritian too and I would be ok with that

[@satyamgoolzar8322]

Same mate, born and live in Mauritius. Top content

[@nashvin1982]

@@aleisterlavey9716 Don't take my word for it, but I think there has been attempts at extracting viable DNA from fossils, but not very successfully from what I know. But yeah, I would totally love to live to see the Dodo resurrected. Although the birds would still be confronted by the same issues that plagued them in the first place, their habitat would have to be well preserved and this could be quite high maintenance too. However, it could also mean a very unique creature that could bring eco-tourists and scientists to the island, which could in return fund this venue.

[@Jukindza]

Man, you'r amazing! Im so happy to find your channel, I wont stop until I see all of it) Please, dont stop, please let it be ETERNAL (:

[@barsk1]

I havent really educated myself in biogeography enough, but this series has really grown my interested on it. Also spanning into a guestion between me and my pals about the thoughts about humans beard/hair genes being more of thing in scandinavia and north compared to lets say africa. To genes from africa making people from there taller and more athletic etc. This world and evulotion makes the world amazing and unique and diverse place and like you said we should really appreciate and learn more about it.

[@jessiethedodo4842]

Geography, Dinosaur, and now Dodo birds. This guy is one of my favorite KZbinr.

[@AtlasPro1]

this one's just for you!

[@LuckyWolfUnleashed]

@@AtlasPro1 Good to see you, can you make a video about if water levels rose during a supercontinent, at least before Indian-Asian cobrnation

[@jackclancy2189]

Fly high dodo’s, we lost a real one 😢🕊

[@ludouble9299]

We kill a real one!!

[@kaliyuga1476]

I dont think they could fly

[@VinnyUnion]

The shoebill is the closest to a badass dino looking bird id say. Also the one that coyote peterson showed off with it's blue skin and a horn.

[@Tech-cy9yo]

If only they could fly

[@colatf2]

It wasn’t just the dodo, all the birds driven extinct look so cool and I wish I could have seen them in their day. I always wish I could haves saved the poor devils

[@cramorantisgod4533]

As a cramorant the extinction of the speckled cormorant is very heartbreaking.

[@Goofybug]

Pokemon

[@josephkania642]

I wonder to what extent "Island Tameness" is genetic, epigenetic and/or cultural (socially learned).

[@marieindia8116]

yeah, because dogs were so adaptable to us, they became dogs and flourished so far back in time that no one knows when the first ones were kept and bred.

[@DerFilc]

Meanwhile in parallel universe Dodotube: "The REAL Reason why HUMANS went extinct (They were dumb)"

[@gaymermoment]

Thats like saying our youtube is called Humantube lol

[@thatmichiganguy]

Bravo! I have to agree with you, here

[@HELLBENDER77]

@@gomahklawm4446 the doom of man is that they forget

[@mr_movieguru]

People are ignorant. That will be our downfall.

[@strobi0001]

*but they thought they are smart

[@epicgmaer26]

Dodo’s Demise sounds like some cartoony survival game that has some arg-like lore

[@liviwaslost]

An educational horror game about the demise of the Dodo sounds cool.

[@crappycrafts3491]

Where you walk around slaughtering them on t rexs (ark intensivfies

[@Antikyth]

I've never actually heard of dodos being 'stupid' before. Absolutely heard 'gone the way of the dodo', but yeah, never heard anything calling them stupid or using them as an insult.

[@Stars.-Bars.-n-Cheese]

I've heard dumb as a Dodo before.

[@Bismology]

Wow, what an interesting video! I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel

[@nathanpratt3058]

Just imagine having a dodo pet, it would be such a cute type of pet, 100,000 times better than a chicken

[@HASH562]

And 3 times bigger 😅

[@paperboatcanfloat3424]

Now forget about a Vaporion, get a Dodo! It can’t feel fear!

[@localchibigameuser9732]

wtf r we gonna do with a dodo chickens r better at least u get a good wake up call at 5 am and eggs and if ur normal then a feast

[@janthecoo4964]

unlike dogs and cats, dodos would blatantly walk into danger and die... even as pets

[@localchibigameuser9732]

@Chicken no chicken

[@Hubabuba258]

Homo Floresiensis would be a really interesting species to mention when talking about the isle of Flores, even more impressive example of island dwarfism

[@mathieuleader8601]

real life hobbits

[@Dragrath1]

If spreading into fossil species it would also be interesting to talk about some of the European dinosaur fossils since most of "continental Europe" was a series of archipelagos and the fossils included small dinosaurs. The apex predator seems to have been the giant Azhdarchid pterosaurs. Its rare for islands to get fossilized like that but its a fascinating snapshot at island biogeography through deep time. (for context there has never been a European continent mainland Europe is composed of island arcs smooshed between the greater Eurasia and Africa with the parts of the the microcontinent Avalonia getting split between the two continents, today split between North America & Afro-Eurasia(British Isles parts of France, and the Iberian Peninsula + Morocco)

[@chris1141987]

Was florensiensis even really the result of dwarfism? How big were other hominids of the same time period?

[@Hubabuba258]

@@chris1141987 Well, that depends on the time period. As far as I remember, the earliest remnants of Homo Floresiensis are from ~700,000ya and the latest from ~70,000ya, that's a pretty big time window. But (according to wikipedia): -Neanderthals: 1.64-1.68m (males), 1.52-1.56m (females) -Average Homo Sapiens at the same time was slightly taller than average Neanderthal -Couldn't quicky find any 'average height' for Homo Erectus, but shortest adults were a bit shorter than 1.5m, while the tallest were about 1.8m -Homo Heidelbergensis on average was 1.69m for males and 1.58 for females Homo Floresiensis was about 1-1.1m tall, which is a bit shorter than male bonobos (1.2m) and noticeably shorter than chimpanzees (1.5m for males). So I wouldn't rule out the island dwarfism entirely.

[@manuel5114]

That's what I was looking for. Great video but I was hoping to find some mention to that

[@Jeemdeecreations]

Just found you and looked through the topics you cover... I'm a fan before I even saw a full video!!

[@BeepDragon]

This whole concept of "Island Tameness" is mindblowing. Anybody else feel like this is happening with us as humans? Being online all the time, instant gratification, tiktok, shortened attention spans. We are acquiring "mental tameness" and when disaster strikes, many of us will be incapable of responding in a way that will ensure survival. Just think if we continue this path for the next 50 years, 100 years. Just a thought .

[@bullet_n_sin_glitterygacha3215]

Tha fact that they wouldn’t be scared of us means I would want to pet them all and keep them as pets. Now I’m sad😭

[@Steampunksaly]

It would be much better if you resist the petting thing and need to catch them as pets and just leave them be roaming free😭

[@wedjongkwowe4679]

@@Steampunksaly go and sleep... They are meat and must be eaten

[@voidhunter9474]

@@wedjongkwowe4679 Ew Naruto pic

[@wedjongkwowe4679]

@@voidhunter9474 get the fuck off.. it's food and we just eat

[@Julie12122]

@@wedjongkwowe4679 "Food" listen up honey they were animals NOT food, if you're one of these weirdos who hunt to eat and destroy its on you but respect others points of view, log out and touch grass

[@andreagullo1700]

16:24 That is not a common modern swan. It is a giant extinct prehistoric Sicilian and Maltese species named Cygnus falconeri (wing span of about 3 m and 2 m long from head to tail). It is clearly another example of island gigantism.

[@Thomk121]

This is why i love the comment section. KZbin videos are not always 100% factual. Go to the comments and youll always find facts like this. I use youtube mainly for educatioonal purposes so this kind of comment always helps

[@BadAssassin]

@@Thomk121 I’m not really sure which one of you I should reply to. I didn’t get the impression that Atlas Pro was implying that it was a modern swan. He didn’t say that it was or that it wasn’t. So I’m not sure how he can be wrong if he didn’t mention it to begin with. Although I wouldn’t have known that it wasn’t a modern swan had it not have been pointed out so.. I’m stuck in a loop.

[@dbrokensoul]

It is clearly another example of beast from the nightmare.

[@andreagullo1700]

@@BadAssassin I want to clarify that I had no intention of correcting him, I just wanted to contribute with an interesting and useful clarification to give a better idea of ​​the differences in size between the two animals in the image.

[@ANTSEMUT1]

Normal swans are already kinda scary up close, could you imagine facing a swam 2 metres tall.

[@johnlegrano4723]

That was pretty fuckin interesting. And well put together. And very informative in a fun way. I actually learned something from it and it was very easy to watch. Thank you and keep up the good work.

[@nickvaden3196]

Excellent video! Incredible explanation.

[@jamesd.7114]

Video: "Given birds unique ability to fly" Bats: "am I a joke to you?"

[@mauriciogago4465]

Insects: "AM I A JOKE TO YOU???"

[@ravinchowdhury5215]

Humans: "Fine. I'll do it myself. "

[@miomirachedic1474]

The bats in New Zealand are close to losing flight and the bats in the Greater Antilles are really diverse so this also happens with bats

[@Fruit-Juice]

@@mauriciogago4465 "well it must tough for you insects atleast people like jokes"

[@afellowanimationcharacter7310]

Dodo :ha ha ha he ha he he ha

[@siddharth1822]

Me who knows that the dodos died out because sid destroyed the last melon to feed ice age baby: **laughs in big brain**

[@mediamuncher6982]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@joeygamingnl2724]

So sid is a war criminal?

[@FieldOfHats3]

WANTED: SID THE SLOTH CRIME: KILLED ALL DODOS FOR AN UGLY BABY REWARD: REVENGE FOR THE DODOS

[@FieldOfHats3]

@Kurt Nathan I have to get permission brb

[@emilianomunozdiaz9494]

This is such a band kid humor comment

[@hrithikkbagade]

Simply brilliant... Was captivating and fascinating.. loved it 🦤

[@sonicthehedgehog8185]

Fun fact: scientists are trying to bring back Dodo’s!

[@kaylakayla7058]

Yas

[@kaylakayla7058]

Yas

[@kaylakayla7058]

Yas

[@kaylakayla7058]

I’m first 👏😎

[@LegacyCat386M]

@@kaylakayla7058 last

[@Firetiger93]

I find it mesmerizing how every syllable is punctuated with a movement of some kind and he only moves when he's talking

[@vershawnsea9219]

Ikr lol. And u kno he sees this wen he edits his video's. But he still does it

[@breakthecycle5238]

I came here for this comment. I can go to bed now 😆🤣

[@gianb3952]

If only the Dutch had said "Let's breed them" maybe we could have dodo pets 🥺

[@aleisterlavey9716]

If just some Monarch, Aristocrat or who else was Bitchy Richy then, would have gathered a big enough population in their private zoological collection... I just imagine all the Nobles having pet dodos at home, that they put in costumes, because it was in the past, nobody cared how the animal felt and they were rich & bored the whole Day. A Dodo dressed as Shakespeare or Julius Ceasar brings a lot of fun in your home, especially when you don't have any Internet... even with Internet, imagine all the Dodo videos... Sorry I can't help, but I imagine of a bucket of Dodo Drum Sticks with 3 pound French Fries and a pint of Dutch Mayonnaise 😋 I just say, that chicken won't go extinct soon (apart of some rare old breeds, that aren't genetically fit for commercially industrial Producing 🥴😢😭)

[@rasmusbertelsen]

Ah, then we could have had the big Dodo Mania instead of tulips!

[@beezlebub7847]

Breed them!? But they were seriously stupid birds

[@gianb3952]

@@beezlebub7847 they were not stupid, they were friendly. Dodos were too friendly for this cruel world

[@ANTSEMUT1]

@@beezlebub7847 Guinea Fowl aren't exactly smart either, even compared to other domesticated birds but people still farm them extensively. So intelligence is not really a factor here.

[@TheKentaurion]

Thanks for another amazingly informative video. Great way to educate the world!

[@warifx9857]

amazing video my dude great work

[@tanmaythakur7650]

Starro : I was happy floating away gazing at stars. Dodo : I was happy hopping away eating fruits.

[@ToughguyJP]

And both times, humans 😢

[@lilmike2710]

In 3rd grade I remember a classmate suggest to the teacher that they mated with Turkeys and gave us Chickens lol. Our teacher laughed her ass off. That's why I remember it lol

[@ryann9026]

Dodo+turkey=chicken *Yes*

[@agentnhr6000]

I mean... yeah that does actually make sense tho

[@agentnhr6000]

@TheDoge 777 Well the posture and way the dodo stands combined with the feathers (ignore the back ones) and beak of a turkey does somwhat make a chicken

[@crowblossom06]

I own chickens, they’re almost a year but they are definitely fatter and plumper than a dodo and a turkey, especially their chest/crop area.

[@agentnhr6000]

@TheDoge 777 I'm not opposing that, I'm saying it's funny how it looks like a complete combination

[@ericcerna4286]

What a great and informative video. Thanks for the lengthy explanation

[@Dethmegadeth]

Cool this is some good information. The dodo was always something I vaguely new about. Look forward to the series.

[@theBCEproductions]

Doggo: "bork" Dodo: "that's a weird bird"

[@gauravtalukdar2715]

Jesus loves you

[@DEV-rw7eu]

Every time I get weird comment I would get one penny but I have two pennys which is weird that it happens twice

[@il00vemoney]

Dodo 2: yeah bro

[@suyunana]

@Peppa Pig omg jesus kinda sus

[@stellarconcealment]

I've never once heard anyone say 'dumb as a dodo'. Is it a region-specific idiom? Here in Britain 'dead as a dodo' is the phrase.

[@Joostuh]

Here in the Netherlands we use 'dappere dodo' (brave dodo) for someone who is fearless but obviously incompetent.

[@jakeryan4545]

I have definitely heard 'dumb as a dodo' or even 'you dodo bird' for doing something stupid (Midwest US). That being said, I haven't really heard it in a while. I don't know if that's because I got older or if it has gone out of fashion. But I have never heard 'dead as a dodo'.

[@MillyKKitty]

Once black swans were used the same as "when pigs fly" phrase to describe something that didn't exist 👍 Until actual black swans were found in Australia!

[@normdeshon665]

Those expressions have 'gone the way of the dodo' Someone mentioned 'when pigs fly', well they have, haven't you heard the news: Swine Flu.

[@thatmichiganguy]

Same here in America

[@Shipodoui]

Réunion native here (the island right to the west of Mauritius) ! A lot of us think that Dodos used to live in Réunion as well thanks in part to the name of the local beer (Dodo) making the Dodo kind of a local emblem despite never actually living there (we only had the Ibis) So it's really interesting to learn what actually happened to the Dodos ! Thanks for the video !

[@LizzyDel]

New subscriber! Great video! Thank you for the content!!

[@ruirodtube]

I’m confused now. According to the documentary “Ice Age” the Dodos went extinct following the loss of their last female during a game of football with a water melon. 🤨

[@sails3538]

Yes...... the documentary Grimm scarred the Bjesus out of me.....

[@pranayamdev411]

Nope. Extinct because of Dutch who ate them

[@ChristianYoga]

@@pranayamdev411 He's joking about Ice Age animated movie :)

[@puljz8551]

@@pranayamdev411 is a joke 😂😂

[@youraveragemexorican]

@@pranayamdev411 r/wooooooosh

[@NorthCitySider]

It's cool to think there were also pygmy hippopotami living alongside the dwarf elephants in the Mediterranean islands. Incredible miniature worlds that we humans destroyed.

[@normdeshon665]

Says the cute cat picture, looking so innocent.

[@roamingdragon8297]

another unique species but technically a subspecies of the plains zebra was the Quagga,and other animals like the tasmanian tiger

[@36-aniruddhmanagoli63]

This channel is one of the greatest channels about geography on KZbin currently & Here I am sitting in Mauritius learning about its geographical history😀😀

[@BrunoSantos-rw6lb]

love your content mate

[@lucustwyatt1960]

Amazing episode, love that ending statement "unless we want to live in a world where the only animals left are the ones that are hard to get rid of..."

[@LovelyAngel.]

13:15 interesting fact - the Latin name of the Great Auk is Pinguinus - it went extinct before Penguins were discovered and they were named after this bird due to resemblance

[@iamsoangrysoangr4775]

Business Goose

[@kaineh99]

This was a really great video watch the whole thing without skipping

[@julianac2143]

Such an amazing video!

[@flirtyfloran3729]

Real men cry in this video

[@nicosmind3]

No

[@eypick6987]

Maybe when they do a video on the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō

[@excelvalentino6972]

@@eypick6987 maybe

[@excelvalentino6972]

@@eypick6987 i hope he put audio of the last Kauai'o'o

[@Spice1010]

We can maybe bring them back, just bring pigeons on an isolated island and they will evolve into dodos again

[@hokkaidoosaka4881]

Lol

[@elysia6524]

What if they become smart and rebirth each other’s and try to kill us

[@demonhunter2129]

In 4 mil years yes

[@elysia6524]

@@demonhunter2129 u never know

[@MrShnazer]

@@demonhunter2129 that’s 😆

[@conniewestside9070]

Love this so much good job my boy

[@grantheskey5704]

Awesome video, really interesting

[@Sylkis89]

I thought Dodos were from New Zealand and when you said Mauritius it caused a crash in my brain. I googled it and you're correct. My brain broke completely. To my defense though, I must have confused Dodo and Moa. So now it would be awesome if you made an episode about Moas :D

[@lakrids-pibe]

They have other flightless birds in New Zealand, like the kakapo which is endangered. The kakapo can't fly, but they think they can, so they climb up on things, jump out with flapping wings, and fall flat.

[@Campbell_P]

I recently saw a real moa fossil, that shit was fucking gigantic. It's leg bones were as big as a human and it had huge gashes cut into it's back from the haast's eagle that hunted it. I hate that they are extinct, but god am I relieved that I won't ever see a living one in person.

[@camatzuma]

I thought they were from a random pacific island, like Fiji or Samoa

[@Dragrath1]

The really sad thing about Moas is that it happened so recently as New Zealand was one of the last places on Earth to be colonized by humans with the first humans to arrive their the Maori arriving in the 14th century AD. It is hard to verify but it even seems quite probable that there were a few Haast's eagles left when Europeans arrived based on a combination of Maori's stories of being hunted by giant Eagles and one early European explorers reports of some big eagles that attacked him. In this case it would suggest that the eagles may have adapted to the loss of their natural bipedal prey by switching to the new bipedal prey that replaced them. Shame we will never really be able to verify it but the descriptions of the birds appearances matches what would be expected based on their evolutionary relationships with other birds of prey. Still the close resemblance in terms of size and build between humans and Moa from a giant predatory birds perspective wouldn't have been much aside from humans lacking the fatty nutritious liver. If that was what happened then I would like to think they got a bit of natural revenge via the events which drove the Southern Maori culture responsible for hunting the Moa to extinction to their own extinction.

[@matthenley7641]

@@rashadkafeel but you can't defeat emus, even the army failed at that one 😆

[@davidec.4021]

9:58 this is your masterpiece. Chapeau to you sir. Instructive, entertaining, informative and super funny 10/10

[@AG-bq7ft]

I loved this video!! Thank youuu

[@MM-zs7rp]

When you brought up dwarf elephants I almost had to put my head between my knees, didn’t know they were a thing and almost couldn’t handle it. Love this video.

[@archenema6792]

"This is a Dodo." At least the lead-in for this channel is truth in advertising.

[@raven4k998]

the Dodo's went extinct because they didn't have enough sex and there for didn't reproduce enough to continue to exist

[@archenema6792]

@@raven4k998 Sometimes a troll is so brilliant and subtle that it sails over everyone's head.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

@@raven4k998 I am going extinct for the exact same reason.

[@normdeshon665]

@@mirzaahmed6589 difficult to maintain balance when some factors seem out of our control. 😒

[@whimsicalstray]

The elephant bird was all the proof I needed. Big Bird is real! 😂...On a more serious note, rest in peace unique island dwellers.

[@jointcerulean3350]

Regarding big bird, you could actually genetically modify and existing bird to look like big bird from Elmo which is pretty scary once you think about it lol. And there is still hope for the dodo, cloning, and taxon substitutes.

[@halonothing1]

Evolution is often thought and spoken of as if it were a purposeful, advantageous process. I like this because it's a great example of how that isn't the case at all. Especially being advantageous. I think most people just assume evolution is always beneficial because the beneficial cases are the most obvious and hence, the most discussed. With the focus usually being on the survival of the fittest aspect of it.

[@thejaherath9665]

Thanks, I learned many previously unknown stuff.

[@retmarut4499]

I've first learned of the dodo in secondary school, some twenty years ago. never has it been described as stupid - except for us pupils. It was rather an example for how one can easily fuck up an ecosystem.

[@albatross1779]

Humans are the stupid ones. No other animal can screw up ecosystems so spectacularly on such a wide scale, all without understanding why.

[@CarthagoMike]

Dodo: _survives for thousands of years in peaceful conditions_ Dutch VOC: *_"your time has come, walking food"_*

[@KhanhNguyen-mh5ec]

Dutch VOC: Yuck! Too gamey. Dogs and Cat: Your time has come! Walking food!

[@jivraj2131]

I believe the Portuguese came before the Dutch and French came after the Dutch and that's when dodo went extinct.

[@kelsi5798]

The dodo didnt actually taste that good its the rats that came with them that ate their eggs and help a lot in their extinction along with the destruction of habitats

[@anonyarena]

@@kelsi5798 One account says that people who enjoy very greasy meat really liked to eat dodo, but that most people just ate it because that's what was easily available to eat there, and would have preferred to eat other kinds of poultry if it had been available.

[@satriadi1990]

@@kelsi5798 not really we don't know how it tastes other than what the sailor that eat them says, it cooked by Sailor they're not chef they probably didn't have anything other than salt as seasoning. and they're only bringing back one or two living dodo for excotic animal show so no one else at the time know how to process them as food.

[@jhjhaymrmartinez3757]

Thank you for the information ❤️

[@vonries]

I've never seen you before, but that was very interesting. Thanks

[@HopeRock425]

Him: next time we're looking into isolation in an extreme environment. Me: Penguins, yeah!!!

[@gabor6259]

Waterbears, yeah!

[@l.p.3876]

At least they are good in something

[@adnannaemaz1989]

Polar bears as well

[@timmccarthy872]

Nah the next episode is about those Mormon fundamentalists on the Grand Canyon north rim

[@nebulakula5410]

atlas pro has made a lot of really good content this past summer, i’m really enjoying it ❤️

[@stevenhatcher3046]

I love the content but one thing bothers me pretty bad, his herky jerky movements. At the end of almost every word he jerks as if to emphasize but it loses its effectiveness if you're doing it after every word. It turns people off to watching, it's almost like nails on a chalkboard if I had to describe it (though not as severe). It looks unnatural. I don't know if he read some "how to make youtube videos" article and they said to do that, well, they're either VERY wrong or he's doing the tactic incorrectly because I almost feel a sense of relief when the video cuts away from him. Edit: spelling

[@marijayankovic]

Great video!

[@viciv51]

Great video! Thank U!

[@AnUndivine]

You know, for some reason it seems like your videos are more enjoyable since you started showing your face. I think its because it feels more like I'm interacting with a person. It's still good that it isn't entirely your face, or else it would just be a guy talking, and it would feel more like a lecture. I think you've found a good mix.

[@farhansaber9330]

The various sizes of characters in one piece all makes sense now

[@BigBoy.African]

Doesnt that mean the elbaf warriors would be docile and stupid

[@obinator9065]

@@BigBoy.African they still have 5 km long sea kings. Don't forget that.

[@Benwut]

one example of island tameness is the Quokkas of Rottnest here in Western Australia, once i was getting dressed, and one just walked under the stall door and snuggled my leg possibly for warmth (it was mid winter)

[@tayson786]

I'm from Mauritius Island. Thank you for the video @Atlas Pro.. ♥

[@eetuthereindeer6671]

They were an actual species. Real birds on that beautiful island. They're gone now... its so sad

[@ryderrants7444]

Not really.

[@velocity1292]

@@ryderrants7444 wdym

[@devrajsood5525]

Nature is brutal

[@jointcerulean3350]

Indeed sad, hopefully we can clone them or use crispr gene editing. At the meantime they should use taxon substitutes for the dodo bird. They have actually introduced Aldabra giant tortoises on Mauritius as taxon substitutes did the extinct tortoise on those island which has done wonders for the native plant life on the islands.

[@SUB0SCORION]

@@jointcerulean3350 With Crisper you can edit DNA precisely but you cannot create a new life with it. Just edit an existing one. But that is not really needed here we have Dodo DNA from dodo skeletons. What we need is cloning that DNA.

[@zimang5342]

Unexpected but nice to see you talk about my country’s national bird 🇲🇺

[@rbbeats20]

🇲🇺🇲🇺

[@westcoastbreed]

Good shit, keep it up.

[@azamshah6976]

This is very informative!