Posted on 08/11/2015 8:08:43 AM PDT by Thistooshallpass9
We need to clone the dodo back to life so we can farm raise the things and have tasty dodo nuggets
And the American turkeys are not native to that ecosystem. What will the consequences be?
Well, the democrat party base pretty much consists solely of Dodos but I doubt they’d be palatable under any conditions.
;>)
The lesson is “Overspecialization is an evolutionary dead end.”
DON’T BE A DODO!
One of the extinctions that upsets me the most. They looked so darn cute and weird.
False premise, the tree could not live without the dodo, therefore it couldn’t have existed before the dodo.
Two errors, #1 the tree can live with any other creature whose digestive tract thins the shells, (the example of the American Turkey is given in this very article!) error #2 the assumption that the early trees had thick shells (They may well have, or they may have needed to develop progressively thicker shells when their fruit eaters started experimenting with gravel filled gizzards)
“Extinction of Dodo Bird threatens tree species”
No shit?
You drew the wrong conclusion. The tree could very well be 360 million years old, and the Dodo 65 million. The necessarily did not have to come into being at the same time. If the turkey can digest seeds in the same way as the dodo, then there was probably anther bird (or dinosaur) now extinct, who could do the same.
Trying to use this as a condemnation and refutation of evolution is the mark of an idiot grasping at straws.
The Mauritians will have to start celebrating Thanksgiving...
This is a blatant misrepresentation!
The Dodo was not dependent upon the Tambalocoque for nourishment; Tambalocoque seeds were but one component of its diet.
One possible scenario is that a precursor of the Dodo (or even some entirely different animal) supplemented its diet with seeds from a precursor of the Tambalacoque - whose seeds were initially not especially dependent upon passage through an alimentary canal for germination.
Gradually, the ancestor of the Tambalacoque developed seeds with tougher and tougher epicarps. It thus became more and more dependent upon mechanical pre-treatment for germination. Perhaps it was only then that the Dodo's interest in the Tambalacoque seeds "took off."
Are the people who wrote this article really as stupid as they seem - or is it more nefarious than that? Are they perhaps trying to mislead and deceive their readers?
Regards,
Perhaps the lesson is that some species deserve to go extinct.
Take the Panda, for example.
Big and fat, giving birth to tiny offspring that are accidentally crushed by their mothers at an alarming rate.
Too antisocial and ill-tempered to tolerate one another, even long enough to breed.
In a world with thousands of bamboo species they will eat only seven.
All that tells me this species does not make the cut to go to the next round.
Don’t question your religious blogger overlords.
Or a blogger. :-)
The article only says the tree was dependent on the bird, not visa versa
I think that is why the language of the article is soft. It doesn’t say “THIS IF PROOF AGAINST EVOLUTION.” Instead, it says “this presents some potential problems for evolution.”
yes. only valid conclusion is that the Dodo was the LAST (until the Turkey was introduced) creature to have a symbiotic relationship with the tree.
Yeah, that’s probably the reason...
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