Dead as a dodo: the fortuitous rise to fame of an extinction icon
@article{Turvey2008DeadAA, title={Dead as a dodo: the fortuitous rise to fame of an extinction icon}, author={Samuel T. Turvey and Anthony S. Cheke}, journal={Historical Biology}, year={2008}, volume={20}, pages={149 - 163} }
Today, the Dodo is the most famous species known to have been driven to extinction through human activity. However, it disappeared over a century before Cuvier demonstrated the reality of extinction, and was only one of a huge number of species that died out following early European expansion around the globe. Unlike many other now-extinct Mascarene species, the Dodo's decline and disappearance was not documented by contemporary observers. Repeated settlement changes on Mauritius during the…
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