Assertion: dodo | /r/HasProperty | rare
Facets:
value: quite
type: DEGREE
value: by the 1660s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: It has been suggested that the dodo may already have been rare or localised before the arrival of humans on Mauritius, since it would have been unlikely to become extinct so rapidly if it had occupied all the remote areas of the island.
text: The authors also pointed out that because the last sighting before 1662 was in 1638, the dodo was probably already quite rare by the 1660s, and thus a disputed report from 1674 by an escaped slave cannot be dismissed out of hand.