The Dodos

 The dodo is a extinc bird, that couldn't fly, notwithstanding it's incapacity of flying. The dodo's closest genetic relative was the also extinct Rodrigues solitaire, it formed the subfamily Raphinae, a clade that include pigeons and doveswere. It habitet the island of Mauritius, wich is close to Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean.

The diet of dodos is unknown, but there is a hypothesis that says that this bird ate the seeds from a tree known as tambalacoque or dodo tree, in 1973, it was thought that this species was dying out, there were supposedly only 13 specimens left, each one was estimated to be 300 years old, so the seed of this tree only germinated when it was digested by the dodo.

 Why did Dodos went extinc?

The humans arrived Mauritius island in the XVI century, it was descovered by muslims and then by Portuguese sailors, but the dodo was first saw between 1574-1581, when the Dutch people conquered the island they hunted the birds very easy, because the dodos evolved in a human free land, so they didn't saw them as a thread. Also, the people introduced invasive species, like the pig and the dog, the pigs ate dodo's eggs and destroyed their nests. Dodos only laid one egg, because they didnt had any natural predator, so, their offspring would grow without any trouble and dodos didn't had to lay more than one egg to insure the survival of one of his eggs.