They Didn't Become Extinct, They Just Left

Su Chi spent seven years resurrecting the last dodo. In the incubator, the gray-blue chick looked at him with the same eyes as it had three hundred and forty-five years ago, and said: "Why did you wake me up?" Su Chi thought this was a miracle in the history of science. Until the dodo told him the truth: all extinct species left by their own choice. The dinosaur thought it was too noisy and left first. The mammoth didn't want to move and followed. The great auk, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine, the white-tip dolphin... They all agreed to leave together. "But you humans keep calling our names," said the Dodo, "in books, in papers, in dreams." "We heard you." "So we decided - one by one, to come back and see." The first is the dodo bird. The second one is the passenger pigeon that blocks out the sky and the sun. The third one is a thylacine that came from the Tasmanian wilderness. Some are willing to communicate, some remain silent, and some are angry. But all returning species are conveying the same message—— Humans, are you ready? This time, don't mess it up again.