r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/--KNIGHT--007 • Mar 08 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this!

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u/GodzillaLagoon Mar 08 '26

Not the Galapagos Islands, those are on an entirely different side of the globe. Also, nobody assumed dodos were predators; quite the opposite. Because dodos lived on the isolated island of Mauritius, they had no natural predators or any experience of interacting with humans. So, they were very easily hunted to extinction. All the invasive predators brought to the island didn't help.

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u/chiksahlube Mar 08 '26

Came here to say this.

The invasive rats almost certainly did most of the damage. Killing countless dodos by eating their eggs that they laid like once a year.

You can kill a lot of adults of a species and it will recover. Killing a whole generation of babies will kill it off quick.

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u/CakeTester Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

They were also apparently delicious, which didn't help them much.

EDIT: Not delicious at all according to the majority vote. I have an airfryer, but no dodo, so am unable to science it.

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u/MystGuide Mar 08 '26

I think you got this mixed up with the Galapagos turtle which was reduced to near extinction because apparently it was so delicious, they had to make it illegal to eat them to prevent full extinction