Why the dodo became extinct

[alfinyalcabo]

I had to google your username to try and suss out where 'here' was,do you live in the Philippines or just a good area of Burnley?
It must be great to have such magnificent birds flying free around you

Try Israel ..I don't think they have Red Squirrels there,but I might be wrong ..

[whittyclaretandblue]

The Giant Tortoise caused the Dodo to go extinct http://qi.com/infocloud/giant-tortoises

'The giant tortoises unwittingly helped the dodo to go extinct. Dutch visitors to Mauritius named dodos ‘Disgusting Birds', because they tasted so horrible that even starving men could hardly stomach them. But they found they could force dodo meat down when it was dressed with tortoise oil, which was held to be 'superior in taste to that of the olive.'