...which was off the coast of Madagascar, the only place in the whole world where they were found. Most folks know that they were a big, clumsy
flightless bird, probably not smart either. (The word "Dodo" is Portuguese for "stupid".) Loss of habitat ruined them. Sailors and pirates also clubbed them to death, people partly causing their extinction in about the mid to late 1600s.
(In my novel "Pirate Heart," the main character Captain Will Burton, who went to sea at the age of 10, says he remembers seeing dodos on the isle of Mauritius when he traveled in that area, near exotic Madagascar. )
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