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A variety of things might have helped

If they could fly

If they had predators, and had learned to be wary of the new arrivals on their island (European humans!)

They weren't confined to one location - Mauritius.

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The sailors that came to the islands where the dodo used to live brought pigs and - unintentionally - rats that ate the eggs of the dodo. They also hunted it themselves for meat. If they hadn't brought those animals which didn't belong there, the dodo would probably have survived.

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less humans trespassing on their land so know one could hunt them to extinction.

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