Question

extinct but not forgotten
as a child i had a fierce nostalgia for the dodo bird. the dodo is a squat, flightless bird last seen around 1681 mans first recorded encounter with the dodo was in 1581 when it ambled onto the beach to greet dutch sailors as they came ashore an island off the coast of africa. the bird was friendly and curious, and for this reason they named it dodo—as in dummy or fool. after all, what animal could afford to be so fearless? it took only a hundred years for this meeting to prove fatal to the dodo.
scientists claim that up to 98 percent of all the species that ever lived on earth have gone the way of the dodo one was the woolly mammoth. recently my radio carried the story of a team of scientists in russia who have discovered the body of a woolly mammoth. it was found intact in the frozen cliffs of siberia. they want to take the animals perfectly preserved dna and clone it. if they do, a mammoth, crossed with an elephant, will stand on this earth for the first time in 10,000 years. i imagine a scientists shock and joy when, pressed against a frozen cliff, he reaches his arm into a hole cut into the ice and buries his fingers into course, thick hair, it isnt the desire to play god that drives him. its something more gentle—a yearning to pet the great beast and console it for thousands of years of loneliness.
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select the correct answer
why did the dodo become extinct?
a. because woolly mammoths hunted it
b. because it made foolish decisions
c. because it froze in ice
d. because men came to the island where it lived
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Explanation:

The text states the first recorded encounter of humans (Dutch sailors) with the Dodo was in 1581, and within 100 years this meeting proved fatal to the species. The other options are incorrect: woolly mammoths did not hunt dodos, the name's origin does not mean foolish decisions caused extinction, and dodos lived on an island off Africa, not in icy regions.

Answer:

D. Because men came to the island where it lived