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8. The dodo might be doable, but the pigeon would be a challenge

Reply to Manifestor_of_Light (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 09:33 PM

Jan 2013

Because even after conservation efforts to save the pigeon were in force they continued to die off. The last few in captivity refused to mate. The theory is that passenger pigeons would mate only if they were among huge numbers of their species.

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