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The discovery of the island of Mauritius in 1505 was the beginning of the end for the dodo. The dodo was a large bird which was

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incapable of flying and so spent its entire life on the ground. When people first spotted the bird in 1598, it seemed to have no fear of humans

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and was quite friendly.

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This was because it had always lived on an island where it had no natural enemies.

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The people on the island didn't find the dodo tasty to eat, but the cats and dogs that arrived with the people did. The dodo was

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completely helpless and by the 1690s it had died out on the

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island. The story of the dodo's disappearance is just one example of man's effect on the environment.

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