Dodo The Bird Turned Into A Legend

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The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. • The closest living relative of the dodo is the Nicobar pigeon. • Subfossil remains show the dodo measured around 62.6–75 centimeters (2.05–2.46 ft) in height and may have weighed 10.6–17.5 kg (23–39 lb) in the wild. • Though the dodo has historically been portrayed as being fat and clumsy, it is now thought to have been well-adapted for its ecosystem. • It is presumed that the dodo became flightless because of the ready availability of abundant food sources and a relative absence of predators on Mauritius. • The dodo's appearance in life is evidenced only by drawings, paintings, and written accounts from the 17th century. • The first recorded mention of the dodo was by Dutch sailors in 1598. • They appear in reports published in 1601, which also contain the first published illustration of the bird. • In the following years, the bird was hunted by sailors and invasive species, while its habitat was being destroyed. • Some controversy surrounds the date of their extinction. The last widely accepted record of a dodo sighting is the 1662 report by shipwrecked mariner Volkert Evertsz of the Dutch ship Arnhem, who described birds caught on a small islet off Mauritius, now suggested to be Amber Island. • The dodos on this islet may not necessarily have been the last members of the species. The last claimed sighting of a dodo was reported in the hunting records of Isaac Johannes Lamotius in 1688. • The humans introduced animals, including dogs, pigs, cats, rats, and crab-eating macaques, which plundered dodo nests and competed for the limited food resources. At the same time, humans destroyed the forest habitat of the dodos. • The impact of the introduced animals on the dodo population, especially the pigs and macaques, is today considered more severe than that of hunting • The dodo is used to promote the protection of endangered species by environmental organizations, such as the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Durrell Wildlife Park. • In 2023 a company named Colossal Biosciences announced plans to de-extinct the dodo by editing genes from the Nicobar pigeon, although some scientists question whether it is even plausible. • #extinctionblog #dodocloning #extinctbirds • Music: Images of Tomorrow - Unicorn Heads (YouTube Audio Library)

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