If you’ve ever heard the phrase ‘as dead as a dodo,’ it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the dodo is, in fact, exactly that – dead. Entirely extinct, that is. With no one but humans to blame.
No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...