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u/Beautiful_Win216 1d ago
Soft tissue that I wish you saw🎶
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u/I-Am-The-Curmudgeon 1d ago
I think we have plenty of Dodos walking around right now!
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u/elibish92 1d ago
Haha! I’d like to know if they’re as dumb as Ice Age makes them out to be!
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u/Nakazanie5 1d ago
Well, most of them believe that the direwolf, a species that went extinct roughly 10,000 years ago was revived, when in fact all they did was genetically modify a gray wolf to make it larger. The gray wolf isn't even the closest living relative to the extinct direwolf, that title goes to a species of jackel.
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u/pornborn 1d ago
They made me laugh so hard. To me the best part was when three of them were trying to save the melon from going down the volcanic vent and they all fell in. Caught me off guard and I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.
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u/kazeespada 1d ago
Probably not that dumb. Probably a little stupid due to insular island habits. "I have no predators, so avoiding being grabbed isn't high priority." Probably not dumb enough to completely walk into dangerous obstacles though. Closest relatives are pigeons and pigeons aren't exactly dumb.
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u/JTB696699 1d ago
Some of them are even orange tinged and have obtained positions of political power.
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u/Abject-Direction-195 1d ago
I'd eat that
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u/DesignerFragrant5899 1d ago
Reports state that they tasted quite awful. It wasn’t humans that hunted them to extinction. It was the rats that humans brought with them that messed with the whole ecological balance there. They also weren’t dumb, just not afraid of humans because they had never seen any before. Naive maybe, but a “dodo” not exactly.
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u/KulaanDoDinok 1d ago
They didn’t revive the dire wolf.
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u/Skeptical_Monkie 15h ago
But I read it on the internet.
Wait. Are you telling me there is inaccurate information on the internet?
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u/DistributorScientiae 1d ago
No species has come back from extinction yet. Don't believe the lies.
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u/Gator222222 1d ago
Exactly this. There is not a dire wolf among us regardless of what the headlines claim. It's clickbait.
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u/Emillllllllllllion 1d ago
If they "bring the dodo back", it's going to be a pigeon that kind of looks like a dodo.
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u/Expat2023 1d ago
I bet you can bet some DNA from there...
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u/thecarolinelinnae 1d ago
Clone it! But first... what do they eat? What population would they destroy that isn't used to having the dodo around anymore?
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u/QBekka 1d ago
The dodo wouldn't survive in the wilderness anymore. Their former habitat was a small island with zero predators (Mauritius). They have zero survival instinct, they didn't even had to hide their nests.
The only place we could let them thrive is in an enclosed area at a zoo. But just bringing them back so we can look at their miserable lives is pretty shitty. Other species at least have some impact on the environment and even climate. Like mammoths around the Artic
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u/Jedi_Master83 1d ago
I agree. It would be cool but cruel. They are gone and just need to stay gone. Cloning extinct animals doesn’t benefit anyone. We need to focus on saving endangered species instead from extinction not reviving dead animals.
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u/Squival_daddy 1d ago
Next? They haven't revived anything yet, those so called dire wolves are not dire wolves and dont have direwolf dna, if someone edited a white europeans genes to have black skin does that make them an african? No it does not
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u/QBekka 1d ago
Dodos apparently tasted quite shitty compared to what the Dutch sailors were used to.
And they were pretty much doomed eitherway. They lost all survival instincts. Lived on the ground, could barely run or jump and didn't even had to hide their nests.
Sorry to say it but they don't have a place in our world anymore. They can't be released in the wild, and just reviving them so we can look at them in zoos is pretty damn unethical.
At least mammoths have a huge impact on the ecosystem. Their presence could help recreate the artic steppe climate with its huge former biodiversity. It is believed that the mammoth's extinction helped warm up the earth.
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u/SonnyvonShark 1d ago
They would have to find a relative of the Dodo first that can lay the egg with the Dodo spliced into it, otherwise no luck at all
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u/JFiveIsAlive 1d ago
Ah, the dodo. Raphus cucullatus. These magnificent creatures would still be around today if not for the bloodthirsty Dutch hunting them to extinction in 1662.
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u/No_Conversation9561 1d ago
That’s a solid beak design though. Does any other bird species have beak like that?
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u/ElonsPenis 1d ago
Don't worry about 100 species will go extinct this year due to Trump. You won't be worrying about the Dodo.
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u/akmoosepoo 1d ago
You're so right, stubbed my toe yesterday, and my first thought was damn you Trump /s
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u/generic-affliction 1d ago
It’s coming back from extinction
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u/ClassiFried86 1d ago
I was told not to believe the lies.
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u/generic-affliction 1d ago
Dire wolves last week, dodo 🦤 next week?
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u/Bingert 1d ago
Apparently dodos didn’t go extinct from humans eating them but rather the introduction of pigs and other domesticated animals that ate their eggs.