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extinct but not forgotten
as a child i had a fierce nostalgia for the dodo bird. the dodo is a stupid, flightless bird last seen around 1681. mans first recorded encounter with the dodo was in 1591 when it waddled onto the beach to greet dutch sailors as they came ashore on an island off the coast of africa. the bird was friendly and curious, and for that reason they named it dodo—an in dutch for 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 mammoths. recently, my radio learned 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 mammoths perfectly preserved dna and clone it: if they do, a mammoth, crossed with an elephant, will stand on the 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 arms into a hole cut into the ice and buries his fingers into coarse, black hair. it isnt the desire to play god that drives him. its something more gentle—a yearning to pet the great beast and cancel a few thousand years of loneliness.
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select the correct answer
why did the dodo become extinct?
a. because men came to the island where it lived
b. because woolly mammoths hunted it
c. because it froze in ice
d. because it made foolish decisions
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Explanation:

The text states the Dodo was first encountered by Dutch sailors in 1581, and it took only a hundred years after this meeting for the Dodo to go extinct, linking human arrival to its extinction. The other options are not supported by the provided text.

Answer:

A. Because men came to the island where it lived