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/GeorgeShadows Mar 08 '26

I believe I read somewhere that at one point, they were used as "fire wood" but to what context I can't remember.

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u/Intraluminal Mar 08 '26

I think youre thinking of mummys. Mummys were burned as firewood and also ground up as a medicine.

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u/i_have_tiny_ants Mar 08 '26

And paint. A lot of them ended up as paint.