Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men “frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them.”
Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men “frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them.”
o damn that is quite recently, for the dodo it was done at the end of the 17th century. it only took about 30 years for the dutch to destroy such a magnificent bird
And apparently they didn’t even enjoy it; the taste of the meat was bad.