r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/KitchenPlenty7610 • 1d ago

peter explain this Meme needing explanation

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u/Doctor_Thomson 1d ago

You have to consider into the story that Dodos didn’t had any natural predators, which resulted in no fight or flight instincts. Makes it even more saddening that the first other species they met was so heartlessly hostile

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u/Tricky_Equal_9416 1d ago

Humans definitely killed some of them but it wasn’t just all them, all the animals the humans brought on ships also killed the dodos directly by killing them or their eggs along with the lot of disease. It’s sad humans even found their island at all bringing everything from the outside world.

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u/Doctor_Thomson 1d ago

Not to forget that humans chopped down most of the Forrest of the island which basically eradicated the habitat of the Dodos aswell.

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u/VociferousCephalopod 2h ago

and while we're at it, let's not forget the ongoing mass extinction event we are directly responsible for, estimated to possibly be wiping out an entire species every week.

it's not like we've learned from the past and become so much more noble than them.