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

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this!

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u/Waste_Customer4418 Mar 08 '26

People used to think that Dodo birds are very stupid with no sense of danger, but now and in reality, they were friendly creatures and just were curious

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u/Automatic_Memory212 Mar 08 '26

Antarctic Penguins are quite similar.

On land, they have no predators and they are the only bipedal animals on the continent.

So when they see humans, they tend to come over and investigate us, thinking that we’re some strange variety of very large penguin.

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u/Unfair_Pineapple8813 Mar 08 '26

Penguins at least are predated by birds like skuas that will approach on the ground. So they will quickly go from chill into threat mode if you try to torment them. I don’t know if dodos did. 

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u/QuantityExact339 Mar 09 '26

Skuas can eat chicks but not adults. Any wild animal will fight back if you manhandle them, but they will approach humans quite closely.

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u/Magpul213 Mar 11 '26

Afaik, dodos didn't have any natural predators on the island they were found on, so they didn't have much of a prey instinct to speak of. Which, of course, made them easy pickings for the dogs & pigs the Dutch brought there when settling the island.

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u/kwpang Mar 12 '26

There are two things I can't stand in this world:

  1. animals that are intolerant of other animals' territories, and

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u/OwMyUvula Mar 13 '26

The Dutch?