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ease of capture and ample meat made them an appealing food source for mariners, who killed and ate many of them. Although hunting may have impacted their decline, introduced species are suspected to have had a strong hand in their extinction. The introduced pigs had great success on Mauritius and became abundant, likely killing dodo young and outcompeting adults. In the face of habitat loss and invasive species, the dodo is suspected to have gone extinct in the late 1600s, likely before it was fully described by taxonomists. Its sudden extinction

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