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6.8 English From BBC Learning English Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
I'm Neil.
And I'm Sam.
In this program, we'll be looking at some of the many dangers facing humanity,
from climate change and global pandemics to asteroid impacts and nuclear war.
We'll be finding out whether human civilization can survive these risks and looking at some of the related vocabulary as well.
Do you really think humans could become extinct and end up as dead as the dodo?
Ah, so of course you've heard of the dodo.
Yeah, dodos were large misa hybrids which died out in the 1600s after being hunted to extinction by humans.
That's right, dodos couldn't fly and weren't very clever.
They didn't hide when sailors with hunting dogs landed on their island.
The species was hunted so much that within a century every single bird had died out.
But do you know which island the dodo was from, Sam?
That's my quiz question for today.
Was it A, the Galapagos?
B, Mauritius or C, Fiji?
I'll guess the Galapagos, Neil, because I know many exotic animals live there.
By the way, that's also cheered me up a bit because as humans we are much smarter than the dodo.