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Extinct But Not Forgotten

As a child I had a fierce nostalgia for the Dodo bird. The Dodo is a squat, flightless bird last seen around 1681. Man's first recorded encounter with the Dodo
was in 1581 when it ambled onto the beach to greet Dutch sailors as they came ashore an island off the coast of Africa. The bird was friendly and curious,
and for this reason they named it Dodo-as in dummy or fool. After all, what animal could afford to be so fearless? It took only a hundred years for this
meeting to prove fatal to the Dodo.
Scientists claim that up to 98 percent of all the species that ever lived on Earth have gone the way of the Dodo. One was the woolly mammoth. Recently my
radio carried the story of a team of scientists in Russia who have discovered the body of a woolly mammoth. It was found intact in the frozen cliffs of Siberia
They want to take the animal's perfectly preserved DNA and cline it. If they do, a mammoth, crossed with an elephant, will stand on this earth for the first
time in 10,000 years. I imagine a scientists shock and joy wheb, pressed against a frozen cliff, he reaches his arm into a hole cut into the ice and buries his
fingers into course, thick hair. It isn't the desire to play God that drives him. It's something more gentle-a yearning to pet the great beast and console it for
thousands of years of loneliness.
Select the correct answer.
Why did the Dodo become extinct?
OA Because men came to the island were it lived
OB. Because it made foolish decisions
OC. Because woolly mammoths hunted it
OD. Because it froze in ice

Answer 1

Answer:The correct answer is:

OA. Because men came to the island where it lived.

The passage states that man's encounter with the Dodo proved fatal to the bird, and it became extinct around 1681. The Dodo was friendly and curious, which made it an easy target for humans who hunted it for food and for sport. Therefore, the Dodo's extinction was caused by human activities such as hunting, habitat destruction, and the introduction of non-native species to the island where it lived.

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