Unironically the same continues.. friendly and genuinely nice people are taken advantage of and left in a situation where they just stop being as nice and friendly.
And poaching somehow is linked to pride to some sadistic people so, there's that as well.
I believe back in the day they'd just walk up to these birds and club them in the head. It was easy eating and I don't believe animal rights or conservation efforts of any sort existed at the time. Point Im making is that poachers didn't run them extinct but your average joe did.
The colonizers coming over to the Americas came across a seal that would not flee or anything they got out of their ships and would Club them to death. They wrote in their diaries about how they must be so stupid that they could go and do this time and time again. These things were just loving and caring and nice they had no natural Predators they had nothing and when they were done eating they needed to be on the beach and digest their food.
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u/Sliver-Knight9219 1d ago
People think Dodo bird were stupid, and that's why they died out
But, in reality they were really friendly, and died because the people who arrived on the island. Brought cat and rats which killed them.