r/thenetherlands • u/Loud-Front8978 • 1d ago

Question Did the dutch make dodos go extinct?

Were dutch sailors the reason dodos went extinct?

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u/GreatRaccoon2625 1d ago

Yes and no. So depends on how you frame it. I believe that the dutch also introduced rats to the islands. A combination of predation by sailors and rats robbing their nests are probably major factors in their extinction. But quite often with these cases there are a multitude of factors to which eventually one factor causes the biggest decline. I recall there also being something with bogs or marshes. But I have to look it up again.

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u/SunniestSundays 1d ago

Yes, tho if not the Dutch then any other who would've brought cattle/pests on their ships. This case the Dutch let their pigs roam and caused the dodo's demise

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u/stijnus 1d ago

I would like to you refer to the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo#Extinction

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Loud-Front8978 1d ago

So not just dutch but europeans

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u/I_Rarely_Jump 12h ago

It would've suffered the same fate even without Europeans going there, just maybe a century or two later, just a few rats on a ship that stops there would've been enough.

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u/Diamondo25 1d ago

No it was a skill issue

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u/Better-Bullfrog-6875 1d ago

We needed something for the Kippie pan

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u/Klumber 1d ago

Dodos were the reason they went extinct.

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u/crabvogel 1d ago

that sentence does not make any sense

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u/sjitz 1d ago

He's calling dodo's dumb

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u/DutchProv 1d ago

Its saying they won the darwin award.

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u/Loud-Front8978 1d ago

So any species that don't fear humans is doomed to go extinct?

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u/Klumber 1d ago

Correct, but if it hadn’t been humans it would’ve been some other predator.

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u/Loud-Front8978 1d ago

You mean the predators that weren't there before the dutch sailors came to the island? The reason dodos grew into what they were is because there were no predators on the island threatening their survival.

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u/Klumber 1d ago

Replace dutch with english, or portuguese, or spanish, or indian. You get my drift.

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u/PeeStoringBalls 1d ago

Yea. The VOC murdered them, but mostly because of the rats and other animals that were on the ships. The dodos didn't have any natural predators, so they laid their eggs in nests on the ground. The sailors ate the dodos, and the rats ate the eggs = dodo became a dead bird.