At home, I am learning about zoology and that is learning about animals in biology. Extinctions Dodo birds Dodo is extinct because the Dutch sailors came and killed the bird and ate them all to extinction. The Dodo was easy to catch because the Dodo did not fear humans. The Dodo was a flightless bird with a big round body and a large beak. The Dodo was native to the island Mauritius, east of Madagascar. The Dodo’s closest relative was the Rodrigues solitaire. Mammoths They are extinct because humans hunted them for their tusks, meat, bones, and skin. Scientists believe that it (the extinction) could be because of climate change but there is a poor argument for it being climate change. Hunting by humans made them more and more extinct. The mammoth had many habitats like northern Asia, parts of Europe and North America during the last ice age. Mammoths have big long tusks that people ki