In the following years, the bird was hunted by sailors and invasive species, while its habitat was being destroyed. The last widely accepted sighting of a dodo was in 1662. Its extinction was not immediately noticed, and some considered the bird to be a myth.

1 天前 · The last dodo bird didn’t meet its end in a singular dramatic event; rather, its demise was the culmination of multiple pressures over time. The final individual dodo, like others before it, likely succumbed to a combination of over-hunting by humans, habitat destruction, and the devastating impact of introduced species.

2013年4月4日 · This bird hatched from her mother’s single white egg on a grassy bed, deep in the forests of Mauritius. We don’t know how old she was when she was captured and spirited away to Europe. However one possibility is that she left in around 1628, courtesy of the English diplomat Emmanuel Altham.

2023年1月31日 · No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The...

2019年12月18日 · Within a century, however, it was no more. Its chicks and eggs had been predated remorselessly by invasive rats, cats, dogs and pigs, and its habitat on the once-pristine paradise of Mauritius was...

The final confirmed sighting of a living Dodo came from Dutch sailor Volkert Evertsz, who encountered the bird on Amber Island off Mauritius's coast in 1662. While unverified reports persisted until 1688, most experts agree the species vanished from Earth before 1700 - marking one of the swiftest documented extinctions of a large vertebrate.

2024年12月21日 · dodo, (Raphus cucullatus), extinct flightless bird of Mauritius (an island of the Indian Ocean), one of the three species that constituted the family Raphidae, usually placed with pigeons in the order Columbiformes but sometimes separated as an order (Raphiformes).

2011年2月10日 · It has not been very long since we lost the dodo – only about three centuries – but the exact date has been difficult to pin down. Until recently, the last confirmed dodo sighting on its home...

Over-harvesting of the birds, combined with habitat loss and a losing competition with the newly introduced animals, was too much for the dodos to survive. The last dodo was killed in 1681, and the species was lost forever to extinction.

2024年5月26日 · The last confirmed sighting of a dodo was in 1662, and by 1690, the species was considered extinct. The rapid decline of the dodo population can be seen in the historical records of the time. In 1638, the English traveler Peter Mundy noted that the dodo was "very plentiful" on Mauritius.