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The Pirate Kitty Theory: How a House Cat Being Let Out Led to the Extinction of the Dodo Bird
Dr. David Summers1 , Booyah2
1 Department of Cat Ecology, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2 Indian Ocean Ecological Department, Greater Somali-East Indies Academic Society of Pirates and Scallywags, Mozambique and Somalia
Abstract
It may not have been the Dutch settlements, or the 17th-century sailors, but one of the sailor’s cats who killed the dodo. The dodo is a flightless bird universally used as a symbol for extinct animals. It lived undisturbed on the remote island of Mauritius and looked like it couldn’t survive modern life outside of a protected remote island. Because of the Dutch settlements, humans have been largely to blame ...
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