The Real Story Of The Dodo Bird's (Current) Extinction
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What’s the real story of the dodo? How did such a unique bird even evolve in the first place? And are we really responsible for its extinction?
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@2000sborton Жыл бұрын
Another little known fact about the Dodo was that an economically important tree on Mauritius was totally dependent upon the dodo. When it was realized that there was no new growth of this tree, for a few hundred years, a European scientist was dispatched to Mauritius to figure out how to get the trees fruit to germinate. He eventually had some turkeys brought to the island and fed them the fruit of the tree. Voila, after the seeds were excreted by the turkeys they started the germination process. It turns out that the trees relied upon the Dodos digesting the seeds to prepare its tough outer husk for germination. A classic example of how one species going extinct causes other species to also go extinct.
@charlesjmouse Жыл бұрын
Most interesting, thank you.
@talonflame_brawlstars.7208 Жыл бұрын
I remember reading a paper on this! I’m surprised no videos I am aware of have covered this interesting fact. Thank you for bringing it up.
@roaklarson9699 Жыл бұрын
Wow! That's so cool! Thank you for the fact
@rodchallis8031 Жыл бұрын
A very similar story here in North America with the near extinction of the Osage Orange Tree. It's an interesting story I'll leave you to discover yourself.
@zakunick1 Жыл бұрын
@@rodchallis8031Tease.
@johnnyli4702 Жыл бұрын
Volkert Evertsz: "We drove them together into one place in such a manner that we could catch them with our hands, and when we held one of them by its leg, and that upon this it made a great noise, the others all on a sudden came running as fast as they could to its assistance, and by which they were caught and made prisoners also." Sounds like another (but harder to prove) trait of the Dodo not mentioned in the video is their social cohesion. This likely also helped them survive as long as they did. Unfortunately, all we can go with for behavioral traits is accounts like these.
@kyrab7914 Жыл бұрын
Honestly, on an island with no big predators, that could've really made them well adapted to actually bully the other animals lol
@helenanilsson5666 Жыл бұрын
It's amazing that someone could write that account and then not follow with "I wonder if we might be evil".
@seregiel9541 Жыл бұрын
@@helenanilsson5666 If you're a sailor in that Era, you eat what you get and don't question it because you don't know when you're next fresh food is. If extinction wasn't a concept, then filling the pantry in whatever method possible over ruled fairness. Today? Yeah, evil. We have context and recognize animal pain/thinking is closer to ours.
@owenstevens7151 Жыл бұрын
@@helenanilsson5666 LMAO. I could describe modern cattle farming like this. "We drove the bovines across the plains so they might succor upon the fresh grass of the plateaus. We kept the herds prisoner and systematically bred them as they waited to be consumed. When our stores became low we brought a weapon to the herd and shot a great many of them with bullets through their heads. We systematically exterminated all the males, all of them save the hardiest and fullest of the bulls. He was left with the heifers to repopulate our prisoners." Sounds evil doesn't it. So why do we do it? its 2023 and we have the knowledge, awareness, and ability not to (unlike many people in the past) yet we do it. I wouldn't call it amazing. I think it's just human nature.
@incanusolorin2607 Жыл бұрын
@@helenanilsson5666 don't you eat meat?
@yukeenakamura1398 Жыл бұрын
As a bird lover it always breaks my heart to hear about the dodos. It would have been a truly unique and marvelous bird to see.
@KristineLevineComedy Жыл бұрын
I hope I’m still alive to see one in real life. Stuff like this makes me way too happy.
@tsmspace Жыл бұрын
@@KristineLevineComedy It won't be the same. but, maybe it will be close enough to be worth it.
@Cypresssina Жыл бұрын
I hope we get to make it up to the Great Auk if we're bringing back birds.
@DanteTorn Жыл бұрын
I honestly could care less about flighted birds, but I've always had a love for ground birds. It bothers me that most ground birds have died off at some point in human history, whether recent or prehistoric.
@unclefista Жыл бұрын
Every species is unique...
@popnostalgia9006 Жыл бұрын
The dodo gets all the press, but there were also two nearby islands with similar birds that also went extinct: the Reunion solitaire and the Rodriguez solitaire. There were several other birds to disappear from these islands as well as from Mauritius. How sad they are not remembered.
@matthew1995king Ай бұрын
Favoritism? Perhaps more studying went into the extinct dodos?
@neofils 19 күн бұрын
their is no proof on a solitaire in Reunion Island. But it was probably an ibis
@jameslee1145 Жыл бұрын
This is one of the few times I've seen de-extinction being reported in a positive way
@Ezullof Жыл бұрын
It's not the first time they talk about de-extinction in that way on this channel. And honestly it's one of the very few times where it could actually make sense. Dodos still have their ecological niche to fill. De-extinction is extremely counter-productive when long gone animals such as mammoths are mentioned. We're living in a different environment where they'd have to compete with living species. In many cases, de-extinction is the equivalent of geoengineering. It would likely cause more harm than anything, and it diverts ressources that could be used for preservation. And that's why it's still not a good idea to make dodo re-appear. But at least it's not a completely bad idea.
@elainebelzDetroit Жыл бұрын
I wish they'd said more about it. Like, how?
@theunholyadventurer2376 Жыл бұрын
@@Ezullof De-extinction should be for animals that are more recent, such as the Thylaciene and Dodos.
@pharoahcaraboo9610 Жыл бұрын
de-extinction for recently extinct animals and not something like, say, a dinosaur or animals from the plioscene, is generally more positively regarded. the recently extinct still have an ecological niche
@oldmech619 Жыл бұрын
@@Ezullof De extinction of the passenger pigeon would have a devastating effect on our agricultural system.
@theblakeslees7065 Жыл бұрын
If you guys haven’t yet, could you do a video about why pigs seem so well adapted for everywhere
@pablolongobardi7240 Жыл бұрын
Generalist species usually are. Same as rats and pigeons, if they are willing to eat anything and give birth by big bunches, they are good to go
@adrianfichter1372 Жыл бұрын
Generalists are pretty good
@UnshavenStatue Жыл бұрын
my default assumption is blabla mammal brain blabla mammal fur blabla
@astick5249 Жыл бұрын
@@UnshavenStatue I think its more that they can simply just eat anything at all
@davidnotonstinnett Жыл бұрын
They can and will eat anything and have enough bulk and fight that most predators don’t want to mess with them. They are like dogs but better.
@VioletWhirlwind Жыл бұрын
In addition to rats and pigs, I read that humans introduced monkeys as well, which also ate the Dodo eggs. Also, I read that they weren't normally as fat as they're often portrayed, because the paintings were based off of a captive dodo that was massively overfed.
@AceSpadeThePikachu Жыл бұрын
**20 years from now** "Welcome...to Dodo Park!" *"They're moving in herds...they DO move in herds..."*
@wrenleader4409 Жыл бұрын
I would love to hear about the geological and ecological history of the Indian peninsula/sub-continent. Like what creatures lived on it when it was it's own sub-continent.
@adnannaemaz1989 Жыл бұрын
This. Especially when you consider india was a floating island for a very long time after splitting up with Africa.
@mezzmer5561 Жыл бұрын
AFAIK Indian subcontinent has amongst the worst fossil preservation record. There's really never been any significant discovery of from the subcontinent except for few cases here & there. This is especially sad considering that after modern day Africa, only India has the most diverse/complete megafauna alive.
@adnannaemaz1989 Жыл бұрын
@@mezzmer5561 wow didn’t realise this. You gotta source I would love to read up on this. Wonder what the reason is?
@mezzmer5561 Жыл бұрын
@@adnannaemaz1989 Something to do with extremely poor natural conditions to support fossilization. It is very amusing & sad all at the same time. Someone can correct me if I am wrong -- we have never discovered a single fossil specimen of ancient human or any of its relative from India. Imagine not one!
@charlesjmouse Жыл бұрын
Me too. Although I believe India regrettably has a very poor fossil record, much of it having been obliterated by the Deccan traps and other events. Still, I'd very much like to be wrong and learn more about what should be a fascinating 'Ark' of flora and fauna.
@octipuscrime Жыл бұрын
They seemed like the perfect birds to tame. But history had its own course and time line. 😢
@DBT1007 Жыл бұрын
another destruction by european in the mission of gold, glory, and gospel
@dundee6402 Жыл бұрын
Just have chickens brah
@whittenaw Жыл бұрын
Just like pigeons but we hate them for some reason 😢
@neshirst-ashuach1881 Жыл бұрын
The video literally says Europeans were not directly responsible for killing the Dodo. Unless you mean because we introduced pigs and rats to the island, but that wasn't really predictable to the sailors.
@KOurboi Жыл бұрын
@@dundee6402 it’s not the same😭😢
@kiarrasayshi Жыл бұрын
All this time, I didn't know the dodo was only on one island. I don't remember when I first learned about them, but they seem pretty pervasive in popular knowledge. Strange when they were only around humans for about 60 years in one small place. Glad for the chance to learn more!
@jaybe9627 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, it’s crazy cause so many islands have specific unique evolutions of animals simply because of how evolution works. I’d recommend Casual Geographic’s videos on island evolution.
@patricamariposa3756 Жыл бұрын
I truly dislike when people say "humans" Only one group of people have a track record destroying people, places, animals and land. Stop bringing All humanity into the bull of one set of destructive hybrids.😔
@patricamariposa3756 Жыл бұрын
@@teramalik7260 Check where these sick inventions come from. Only one group of people keep coming up. Check who owns these companies, only one group of people keep coming up. Check the ones lobbying for the corrupt companies, only one group of people keep coming up. ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE, Not humans, NOT HUMANITY, JUST ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE. Yall made yall mess by yall self, now accept responsibility by yall self. Stop bringing everyone else into yall Bull 💩
@IWantToStayAtYourHouse Жыл бұрын
All this time i thought dodo lived in new zealand im so stupid hha
@ohrats731 11 ай бұрын
Yeah I had no idea either! People talked about them like they lived all over Europe 🤦 Well, now I know lol. Fascinating! I feel like they really did become well ingrained in our social conscious for such a sort-lived and niche human experience
@GhazMazMSM Жыл бұрын
I really hope they bring it back someday.
@stevenelbert8989 Жыл бұрын
If and when the dodo 🦤 is brought back from extinction they will need to remove the invasive species on Mauritius 🇲🇺 such as rats 🐀 mongoses pigs 🐖 and crab eating macaques to prevent them from causing their second extinction
@worldofmonterra Жыл бұрын
As much I would like that, we should focus saving animals that are endangered. We can use genetic technology to help safe current living species that on the brink of extinction like rhinos, pangolins, and tigers
@shaider1982 Жыл бұрын
Yup,along with the mammoth & thylacine.
@Riftrender Жыл бұрын
@@shaider1982 Lets not tempt God.
@bazpearce9993 Жыл бұрын
@@Riftrender Shut up.
@AskMia411 Жыл бұрын
The evolution of elephants is something I’d love to see covered! Like what on earth drove the evolution of their trunks??? And there are so many weird extinct elephants!!!
@allangibson8494 Жыл бұрын
And there is a mouse sized ancestor with a prehensile nose… (the Somali Sengi).
@FlushGorgon 10 ай бұрын
Its cousin and neighbour form a nearby island, the Rodrigues solitaire, which suffered the same fate for the same reasons, does look closer to pigeons in its physical descriptions.
@Binarokaro Жыл бұрын
I think that even if the dodos were brought back in today's world, they're going to be met with the same challenges they did back then: pigs and rats eating their eggs. So unless they're adapted to handle egg-eating mammals, either through new brooding or nesting behaviours or through aggressive adaptations, I think it's unlikely that they'll remain de-extinct for long
@coolbeanzbeef Жыл бұрын
Similar to what they're doing with the mammoth, the "Dodo" we bring back wouldn't be a true Dodo, but likely a hybrid with a pigeon or dove for a mother. That being said, the DNA could possibly be engineered with the trait of laying more eggs at a time, or laying eggs more often. All speculation on my part.
@AirLancer Жыл бұрын
Well it's not like they'd make a few and release them them into the wild hoping for the best. Doubtless that they'd be bred solely in captivity for quite a while.
@jeffreygao3956 Жыл бұрын
I doubt they'd even act like dodos because they'd have to be raised by ordinary pigeons.
@Zerzayar Жыл бұрын
Just mix their genome with that of the cassowary and they'll be good. #revengeofthedodo 😉
@diceman199 Жыл бұрын
@@jeffreygao3956 They would have to be raised by something closer in behaviour than pidgeons. Turkeys maybe?
@elliottcoleman8225 Жыл бұрын
Dodos look so bizzare and interesting that it's hard for me to believe they were once real animals. This is one of the few de-extinction candidates that I actually look forward to, if it ever happens. Especially because it's an island species, the dodo could be an interesting and contained study on de-extinction if we ever need to implement it
@argenieuwenhuijzen2557 Жыл бұрын
One of the Dutch names for the Dodo was ‘Walgvogel’ (Disgusting Bird) because their meat seamed to have been tough and horrible.
@punishedwaluigi3518 Жыл бұрын
“wow this bird tastes horrible, better keep eating it”
@RogerioPereiradaSilva77 Жыл бұрын
@@punishedwaluigi3518 Well, sometimes you got to work with what you have. If the choice is between starving to death or eating a horrible tasting but possibly nutritious meal, do you really have a choice to make at all?
@WolfanTerror 8 ай бұрын
@@punishedwaluigi3518would you rather starve to death?
@MM-ry4hi 2 ай бұрын
typical colonizer mindset. It is horrible, disgusting, but they still want it. They dehumanize it so that they don't feel bad later.
@kennethrijsdijk880 Жыл бұрын
Well done PBS, nice to our work staged here and presented in a didactic great and appealing way! The dodo and it’s ecosystem represents an amazing study system to understand insular species evolution. We are currently working on some more novel insights on the dodo, we will keep you posted ;-) Warm regards dr Kenneth Rijsdijk
@KSL042 Жыл бұрын
It’s always a better day when eons posts !!!!!!!! Y’all make my day every time
@arimarianne7528 11 ай бұрын
This is a similar story to what happened to the Goliath bird. The bird themselves were huge and formidable, so humans probably wouldn’t have wanted to mess with them due to the danger. But their huge eggs were a much easier target for people to steal.
@RoyNeeraye Жыл бұрын
I'm from Mauritius and really glad that Eons decided to shed more light on this emblematic bird which, despite popular assumptions, is really a matter of pride to us 🇲🇺 🦤
@wjenerou Жыл бұрын
my ancestor was named Willem bontekoe. he drew the dodo in his journal and it was later adapted into the famous stort of “the cabin boys of Willem Bontekoe” took place in the 1600s. this story inspired the east indian trading company which lead to more dutch travelers to the island.
@wjenerou Жыл бұрын
my name is william charles-bontekoe jenerou
@thomassutherland2647 Жыл бұрын
@@wjenerou You should write an autobiography of Yourself, and Your family tree! Mine had Vikings, Noblemen, Slaves, Business Leaders, and Soldiers. Yours sound Awesome!! Explorers, and Writers. "Let not others hasten You towards a foolish path to follow in the footsteps of their own demise. Seek Your own True Path, for We All have a chance to govern Our own destinies!" I'm always writing random things like that.
@wjenerou Жыл бұрын
@@thomassutherland2647 more like a fun fact that was relevant to the topic. i’m not necessarily thrilled of the connection to colonialism in the east. not my bag ya know
@mezzmer5561 Жыл бұрын
@@wjenerou one should never judge history from the lens of 21st century morality, our ancestral past can be a fascinating tale as is, shouldn't let Wokeness spoil the fun. Anyway thanks for sharing.
@wjenerou Жыл бұрын
@@mezzmer5561 not wokeness just like “hey if anyone’s going to throw any curses on a name just make sure it’s not me” i’m like struggling enough with out it haha
@The_Predatorkiller Жыл бұрын
Finally your channel mentioned the Dodo bird! As a Mauritian, I proud of my national bird.
@jonathanroberts-bj7yl 2 ай бұрын
The Dodo looks more like a Dino than pigeons.
@D1noPaleoX Ай бұрын
Birds ARE dinosaurs
@lmagoddess Жыл бұрын
My first thought, when it was stated that more bones had been found, was that someone is going to try to bring it back.
@danilodesouza6461 Жыл бұрын
I imagine the portuguese word you mentioned is probably “Doido”. Today it has much lighter conotation that it used to have
@hi5dude2 Жыл бұрын
Excuse me, but I watched ALL of the Ice Age movies, so I think I am an expert on dodos thank you very much!
@pollytiks3885 Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂 Me too!!!
@yukeenakamura1398 Жыл бұрын
But they only appeared in the first one
@LeoDomitrix Жыл бұрын
I went to the first movie's "Tae Kwon Do-Do" scene the minute I saw this video title...
@nothanks800 Жыл бұрын
This is an interesting channel. I'm happy you all are around.
@johnnyli4702 Жыл бұрын
In terms of de-extinction, I can understand how we could bring them back to their habitat after removing all the pigs. But how the Dodo are we going to extract all the rats?
@Ezullof Жыл бұрын
And that's the second major issue with de-extinction: either we keep such species in zoos and they become very expansive "meat toys" for our own hypocrite pleasure, or we have to spend so much ressources to re-introduce them in their environment that it feels very hypocritical to not devote such ressources to species that still live. If mad scientists manage to convince the public that we should de-extinct dead species, we might end up with deeply deranged and unstable ecosystems everywhere.
@highlyvurgultis3706 Жыл бұрын
Rat eradication has been achieved on small islands before so it's possible on Mauritius I'm sure people would like rat removal too lol
@AwsmChimera Жыл бұрын
I comment to boost the video's stats for the KZfaq algorithm and to let y'all know I enjoy this channel and how it does me an educate, yes.
@jonjonsson4270 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Thank you PBS Eons
@thierryploum5923 Жыл бұрын
That was an interesting episode. Could you do a series on other very very recently extinct animals? We are so used to them just being gone that we don't even look at them, perhaps passing over unique features we are not even aware of in favour of of what we think we know, as you were also demonstrating with the dodo, so a visit might bring these out. The auroch comes to mind; the Australian Thylacine. Wasn't the passenger pigeon unusual or special, too?. Eons' take on this is bound to be interesting.
@SnowDeerling Жыл бұрын
So sad what happened to the dodo. There’s a great book about mermaids that rescue extinct animals- the first one being the dodo. It’s called The Creatures of Legacy Isle.
@gothicgirlfriend7375 Жыл бұрын
Wow..this sounds like a beautiful book. I'll have to check it out
@falcoperegrinus82 Жыл бұрын
A spin off on this could be a video on the island biogeography of Pigeons. As a group, the Columbiforms have some amazing flight and navigation abilities and are thus able to island hop even over hundreds of miles of open ocean. Dozens of really cool pigeon species have evolved to do this. The Nicobar Pigeon at 4:40 is just one example.
@Nataru16 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating, thank you!
@Justinbrown-ri1bm Жыл бұрын
Hello 👋
@wrenleader4409 Жыл бұрын
Also, having updates on some of the early Eons episodes would be cool!
@TragoudistrosMPH Жыл бұрын
EoNews (lol 😅 or a better name 😅)
@Frank-oz8be Жыл бұрын
Nothing breaks my heart more than extinction
@TheBestAround131 Жыл бұрын
Especially when it's our fault...
@smilesfoutch6996 3 ай бұрын
@@X-WHOwell yeah. Everything died sooner or later.
@arvindj1504 Жыл бұрын
As a Mauritian, I remember learning most of the points in the video in Primary school, aged 10. I feel the video is trying to portray these as recent discoveries. The video is great though, accurate and concise. Just want to point out that the ideas seem to be known from at least the 80's.
@JubioHDX Жыл бұрын
the ideas were known since the 80s, but many still argued against many of them until recently. This video uses the most recent studies and data because that is the most conclusive and INCLUSIVE of all the data gathered before. If you have a source from 1980 and a source from 2005 that confirms the 1980 hypothesis, you should share the 2005 one.
@gothicgirlfriend7375 Жыл бұрын
Nice way to give people some credit while keeping your superiority in check. Lol
@gothicgirlfriend7375 Жыл бұрын
@Jub don't even bother with people like this. They are always looking for ways to sound smarter than everyone. You're really nice though
@mushroomlena Жыл бұрын
Wow this was incredibly interesting! Thanks for this updated information on the dodo.
@roberthill3811 Жыл бұрын
I've always wanted an Eons miniseries about the evolution of the different senses. How and when and how many times did eyes evolve? Etc.
@thomassutherland2647 Жыл бұрын
Our eyes have changed 3 major times. Our ears One major time. Touch is a variable. Smell, and Taste are hard to pinpoint, as it is an even greater variable than Touch, but for Both in large groups of people, maybe 3-4 times. I can taste what others can't even smell, can drop my heartbeat to almost Zero to stay underwater, survived being stabbed, shot, impaled, etc. Then again so have many others. We tend to save others, since We don't die that easily.
@solsystem1342 Жыл бұрын
Eyes, at least complex eyes have evolved many times. I'm not so familiar with the origin of eye spots and the like.
@astick5249 Жыл бұрын
@@thomassutherland2647 I can barely smell anything, yet my sense of taste seems to be fine.
@thomassutherland2647 Жыл бұрын
@@astick5249 Hmm.. I'm no doctor, but maybe seeing one might help. Not sure what / if things can done. In Trek, one character had no sense of taste, but could notice the texture of the food He ate.
@astick5249 Жыл бұрын
@@thomassutherland2647 Its not, like missing, for example if i put my nose next to an air freshener i can smell that, and i seem to be perfectly fine at smelling campfires in general
@arnoldschpeiker7887 Жыл бұрын
A topic that would be interesting would be the repeated occurrence of saber-toothed predators within synapsids (mammalian and non-mammalian) along with how the saber-teeth are not all designed the same (especially with Thylacosmilus).
@adpirtle Жыл бұрын
The Dodo shall live again!
@Nico-ch9ul 6 ай бұрын
The wildest thing is that my Professor co-wrote that paper! What a flex for your work to end up in a PBS Eons vid!
@dlanska Жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation. Thank you.
@Theonetrueerenyeager Жыл бұрын
I hope you make an episode about the Takahe too.
@ethimself5064 Жыл бұрын
Is it extinct also? Thanks
@Theonetrueerenyeager Жыл бұрын
@@ethimself5064 Not yet, but it is endangered and close to extinction.
@ethimself5064 Жыл бұрын
@@Theonetrueerenyeager 👍
@abbycole7485 Жыл бұрын
It makes me think of kiwi birds. Arguably they’re similar in a lot of ways: they lay one egg, and as ground dwelling birds adapted to an environment with no predators. Also, isn’t there a species of bird, I think it’s a sea shore bird that went extinct once, then the same ancestor that happened to still live, migrated there again and that extinct species re-evolved??
@MistSoalar Жыл бұрын
that outtakes are so good.
@LinardBraslin Жыл бұрын
Very nice clarification! Would love to see the Dodo or a hybrid of it coming back! Honestly, it is fair, because we're reversing the damage we've done.
@Teryn180 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if de-extinction of a bird (with external embryo development) is easier than a mammal (with internal development)
@monticore1626 Жыл бұрын
5:09 that is an emu, it lives in Australia, it evolved in an environment very full of predators and it is more than capable of holding its own
@Articulate99 Жыл бұрын
Always interesting, thank you.
@ulba98 Жыл бұрын
I would be interested in learning more about how Polar Bears diversified from brown bears in Alaska. Love the show!
@marjoseph2311 Жыл бұрын
Will dodos come back by scientist?
@AnimealPlanet Жыл бұрын
I have seen this during my Elementary years. I remember the feeling when I read how humans basically wiped them out after a short time they visited the island. So sad and indignant I am.🙂
@AthenaSchroedinger Жыл бұрын
Now I can say I learned something new today! Just about all the information that was presented here was new to me. Thank you!
@MrPimpVick Жыл бұрын
Wow that was just beautiful information. Thanks for your hard work ✌️
@IntrepidFraidyCat Жыл бұрын
Interesting video, thank you! Poor dodo.... I really hope they can bring it back. I'd like a video on why it's now thought t-rex had lips that covered their teeth! 🦖
@pansepot1490 Жыл бұрын
You’re lucky. The channel E.D.G.E. has posted a video explaining the t-rex lips debate just yesterday. I’ll post a link in a separate comment because KZfaq tends to delete posts with links.
@IntrepidFraidyCat Жыл бұрын
@@pansepot1490 Oooo! Thanks for the heads-up! It's weird trying to imagine T-rexes with lips. LOL 😆🦖
@IntrepidFraidyCat Жыл бұрын
@@pansepot1490 I watched the video you mentioned. It was really interesting. It's a cool channel, so I subscribed to it. Thanks again!
@priztucker Жыл бұрын
It’s amazing how of all the extinct species this one is so unforgettable and is the one we would all vote to bring back.
@merannicuill6435 Жыл бұрын
Everything I read as a kid, said "they were too tasty!" Lol (prob true tho!)😊
@WolfanTerror 8 ай бұрын
@@merannicuill6435actually, apparently according to sailors they tasted quite bad
@SocioJoe Жыл бұрын
congrats on the pb on the leg press Blake!
@aaronstanley6914 Жыл бұрын
Wow he's really build up those muscles.
@Jmatad21 Ай бұрын
It's a suit
@user-ze3lk1ov5b Жыл бұрын
One of the most iconic creatures we ever brought to extinction ❤
@jakobraahauge7299 Жыл бұрын
I'd love an update on Dunkleosteus - now that it has shrunk. But please wait until there's some cool artwork to make comparisons by 😅 I think it would be a nice topic to discuss scientific evaluations - and a really cool case! 😄
@agimasoschandir Жыл бұрын
Have not watched, quick google search: Dunkleosteus - Smaller and Rounder Than Expected? from Henry the PaleoGuy (youTube video)
@ambergris5705 Жыл бұрын
Where did you find that map at 1:02, and more importantly, where can I find it? It's so great, it really makes you see the world differently, and understand it better. I want one...
@falcoperegrinus82 Жыл бұрын
Its called a Raised-relief map.
@JoseMartinez-df2db Жыл бұрын
This is one if not thee best video I've seen on the Dodo. 😢🙏🏽
@HeliumQueen Жыл бұрын
The Dodo has always seemed a little bit spooky to me. Because of its status as a symbol of extinction, the story of the Dodo was used to explain what extinction was and how it happens when I was a child in school. We would often see artistic depictions of animals in books and things, and the Dodo was commonly included in these, usually in the background or off to one side. And it always gave me a creepy feeling, like here was this strange animal, where it should not be, reminding us of just how fragile life can be.
@CGM_68 Жыл бұрын
I would like to know more about Maritime Archaeology sites around the Globe. Specifically those with finds of human settlements flooded by rising sea levels around 6500-6200 BCE. So, the coastal cities just off our shores, which were once home to our most recent ancestors. Doggerland is the one which keeps getting cited, but surely the global picture is far more varied than that prehistoric landscape which holds the secrets of almost a million years of human habitation.
@MrMountainFace Жыл бұрын
Can we get Blake’s workout routine? Looking good man! Hit that PR
@Mikkelltheimmortal Жыл бұрын
Great presentation as always. It's interesting that we are the only species that can eradicate another, and make a conscious decision to either smarten up and not keep doing the same stupid things that lead to the extinction, or, more amazingly, we now have the stepping stones needed to start bringing back these creatures we eradicated due to poor choices. I'm not 100% on board with the mammoth resurrection idea but I am 107% behind returning species that we destroyed, like the Dodo or Tazmanian Tiger for example
@GenesisJames Жыл бұрын
Wow, I had no idea that the dodo was so complex! Kinda shows the hubris of our ancestors when it came to asserting things with little to no evidence, haha. The dodo's one of the few animals that I'd totally be on board with in terms of de-extinction since we kinda were the ones that did them in, even if indirectly. Like, that was our bad lmao
@wolfbyte2468 Жыл бұрын
And once we remove rats and pigs (which has been achieved on other islands, and is something we should do anyway to protect any species still there), they would fully have a niche to go back to! And since so many bones have been found, I'm hoping there's enough individuals to get DNA from in order to make a viable population. You'd need a minimum of 10 individuals, but more is definitely better.
@TheBestAround131 Жыл бұрын
The dodo doesn't breed at an uncontrollable rate, so if bringing it back turns out to be a bad idea, it'll be an easy mistake to fix... Hopefully...
@schrodingerscat3741 Жыл бұрын
@@TheBestAround131 Just bring the rats and pigs back
@merlapittman5034 Жыл бұрын
I've been fascinated by the dodo ever since I first heard about it as a child and wished that there would turn out to be a hidden pocket or two of survivors. This is one creature I'd really like to see returned to the land of the living!
@mikep3226 Жыл бұрын
There was an interesting science fiction story about a scientist who hears of a pair that had been brought back on a ship and one of the hands had taken a pair and bred them on his farm in the south. The story follows the scientists search to learn that it was true, and try and track them down.
@DodoTacticsGaming Жыл бұрын
Dodo comeback story and shoeing what actually went down? Sweet!
@miss_charlulu3333 Жыл бұрын
Hey guys, I really love your videos!!! You do a great job! I'd really enjoy a video about the evolution of sleep. Like when did sleep become a thing? Don't know if there's even an answer to this 😄 Anyways... Keep going! Greetings from Germany
@SuperMrMaximo Жыл бұрын
Dodo's look like they could bite off a finger
@andreasstavrinou6219 Жыл бұрын
This is such a sad extinction.
@Vontroll Жыл бұрын
A good idea for a list show: Which animals have been around the longest in their current form?
@Nertez Жыл бұрын
Very interesting, thank you.
@jeremyortiz2927 Жыл бұрын
If they bring them back, I hope they don't get commercialized into a chicken alternative. 😕
@neshirst-ashuach1881 Жыл бұрын
Why? I mean, why isit worse if its dodos being eaten than Chickens.
@franciscoamorim2077 Жыл бұрын
I want to know about the story of the eye. How important is our eye in our evolution as a species. How does this work and determine the genetics and biology of other species? We can say that we have this eye because of our anatomy or our anatomy derived from the eye that we have? Regards from Brazil!!!
@reecebatts2 Жыл бұрын
great video!
@wkrapek Жыл бұрын
Wow. Great video.
@rl9217 Жыл бұрын
“Dodos have become a prime candidate for the concept of de-extinction. The possibility of bringing it back is seriously being explored.” Ark players: WOOOO, YEAH BABY! THATS WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! THATS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT WOOO!
@garethdean6382 Жыл бұрын
I dunno if you've done this before, but I'm very curious how gills evolved into the structures they have as the first jawed fishes came into being.
@mellissadalby1402 Жыл бұрын
I really liked this episode about the Dodo birds. I also very much enjoyed the other video about the lady shepherd.
@sauraplay2095 Жыл бұрын
Great video!
@hosni4064 Жыл бұрын
I'd love to know how giraffes and their relatives evolved!
@lurji Жыл бұрын
the channel "animal origins" did one 2 years ago if you're interested 😊
@SavannahBurris 11 ай бұрын
The rat thing actually doesn’t surprise me because that’s the same reason the Tuatara is now critically endangered! Ecosystems are so delicate and complex in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. It’s impossible to take one species out without having a domino effect throughout.
@user-pz9zg9ti4j 8 ай бұрын
I like bird song so I think that they have sentimental value as far as I am concerned but I have no idea how important role they play so your info is a game changer for my knowledge on them related to ecosystem.
@colly_cnoc Жыл бұрын
Please bring them back... pigeons who are Even More Round 😭💖
@aaronwolfe7147 Жыл бұрын
I've always wondered about the origin an evolution of spiders. I would like to see a video about that.
@crazycatlady39 10 ай бұрын
Well, if you suddenly change the rules of the game, things are going to start to struggle when they were seemingly star players before hand.
@joshuastreet8664 Жыл бұрын
i love learning about the Dodo!
@Seadalgo Жыл бұрын
I was very excited when I heard that most of what we were taught about Dodos was wrong and that it was overhauled in 2005... then you restated everything I'd been taught about Dodos since the 80s so I'll just caulk it up to hallucinations of the future again
@TheAzulon Жыл бұрын
Wait...wait...people didn't think about extiction on the 17th century? They didn't realize that if you kill all of a certain animal, then there would be no more of said animal? Where did they think animals came from? That they would just respawn somewhere? The server would just reset and they would be back?
@MikeWinters16 Жыл бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation
@hodor3024 Жыл бұрын
The world just seemed so huge that there would be things left no matter how many were hunted.
@VillainousHanacha Жыл бұрын
The idea that you couldn't kill an animal population in its entirety is a concept based in religion. All of the creatures on the earth were placed here by God, for human beings to use and exploit was how the thinking went. To suggest extinction was to suggest that human beings could exhaust God's grace. It was considered the height of arrogance to suggest since if we could exhaust something God gave us, it would put us above God in a way. It was thought impossible to ever be able to exhaust God's bounty. It seems alien to us today (and it was entirely incorrect), but one has to remember that genuine belief in a creator was much more commonplace than today, even amongst the scientists of the time.
@scottryan5634 Жыл бұрын
Humans do not have senses of an environment on a grand scale. That requires years of research by teams of people, map making, statistics, and all kinds of information hungry sailors on a temporary stop over would not be capable of realizing. Also, an island population has much less resilience than a continental population, which is not obvious until after the fact. This was early in the Age of Exploration so human impact on uninhabited islands would have been an unpondered concept. The Endangered Species Act in the U.S. wasn't passed until 1973, and, to this day, people regularly kill rare creatures on their property rather than have to deal with its regulations. In the moment, extinction is often not people's priority.
@chandraathithan11 Жыл бұрын
Such an informative video about dodo
@CosmicCastaway25 Жыл бұрын
Never expected to see my country and half of our national symbol on PBS Eons 😅 Hello from Mauritius 🇲🇺
@nonbeliever5027 Жыл бұрын
Maybe the Dodo bird didn't went under Extention at all. There could be a small percentage of them surviving on some remote islands unstepped by human
@BoxStudioExecutive Жыл бұрын
Accordingly a large number of poor resolution photos and videos, this is indeed the case!
@martintanjung5540 Жыл бұрын
Humans...
@OmegaIdiot Жыл бұрын
Cool series it seems. Will we get Men od the Earth as Co-Series later?
@konstantinbuchler79 Жыл бұрын
I would be happy to see an episode about orang outans, the Pongo family, and their common ancesters with other great apes. And octopuses... Don't forget octopuses!
@SimonBellaMondo Жыл бұрын
The fact that the dodo only laid one egg and species introduced to the island caused their extinction has been known for a very long time. The 2005 discovery only showed that dodos were well adapted to their environment.
@JubioHDX Жыл бұрын
showing that they were well adapted to their environment is a extremely important part of CONFIRMING that it was indirectly the affect of humans and not "inevitable" like people still argued. In hindsight now yes thats all it added but at the time it settled many ongoing debates
@gothicgirlfriend7375 Жыл бұрын
Geez. WOW I guess that changes everything in the video. 🎉 congratulations. You're so much better than other people
@SimonBellaMondo Жыл бұрын
I agree, it’s an important discovery. My point is that the story we were all told about the Dodo Bird’s extinction is pretty much spot on. The reasons for it haven’t changed.
@SimonBellaMondo Жыл бұрын
@Gothic Girlfriend You must be fun at parties 😂
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