Dodos probably weren’t as stupid as historians made them out to be: new research

Sara Citron, CC BY The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, wiped out within decades of humans arriving on its home island of Mauritius, but it lives on in the public imagination. Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland helped popularise the image of the dodo as a foolish creature. John Tenniel This famous flightless bird has become a symbol of extinction. Its demise is often portrayed as almost inevitable: a supposedly foolish creature that naïvely…