In my last blog, I talked about animal extinction and how it affect our society. In this blog I'm going to talk about the different kind of animal, that have gone extinct and what kind of role they played on our earth.
There are so many animals that have gone extinct in our world. In my opinion the most famous animal extinct is the dodo bird. You can find the dodo bird in several movies like Alice in wonderland, and in the TV show like Phineus and Ferb. Some might disagree, but I find the dodo not a very appealing bird. The bird weighed around 23kg with a chubby body, short legs and a short neck. His characteristic didn't help the dodo bird from getting captured in 1662. The bird was first seen in 1598, the dodo is a flightless bird from the east of Madagascar, the Indian ocean. I believe the dodo was a very smart bird even if they called him the dodo bird. In my opinion they called him a dodo and figure he was dumb because he had a friendly approach. The dodo bird became extinct in 1662, when humans presented other animals to the island and became hunting the dodo bird .After the dodo birds extinction, 300 years at around the same time a tree went extinct, scientist figure out that the dodo bird gave existence to this tree by eating its fruit and planting the seeds. The dodo bird didn't affect any food chain till after the humans presented animals to the island, the bird had no predator and lived on fruit. There are so many other amazing creatures that have gone extinct (here is names of animals that have gone extinct in North America) America cheetah, American lion, camelops, Mexican horse and more.In my opinion, the most tragic stories of extinction is of the Atlas bear. The atlas bear was the only bear that inhabited Africa, they could be found in the mountains of the northeast of the continent. The animals started becoming extinct in the Roman empire. When they were not only hunted but captured. The bears were then made into gladiator bears and had to fight to the death. The last bear was shot and killed in the 1800's.
mentalfloss.com/article/60577/10-tragic-stories-extinct-animals
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_extinct_animals
Love it , love it , love it! I've never knew any of this information on dodo birds! You really educated me with this great blog post. Plus, I could thoroughly recall your opinion, which is perfect! I now know how you feel about these birds and it really interests me. Well done once more Rachelle, you did great! Keep up this fantastic work of yours!
ReplyDeleteWow Rachelle, I'm really impressed. I didn't know anything about Dodo birds until I read your blog. I really like how informative this post was. I also, really love your writing style. . I can't wait to read more of what you decide to write. keep up the marvelous work Rachelle!
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