Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men "frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them."
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o damn that is quite recently, for the dodo it was done at the end of the 17th century. it only took about 30 years for the dutch to destroy such a magnificent bird
And apparently they didn't even enjoy it; the taste of the meat was bad.