Dodo - Extinct Bird Paper Model - by Kizuna Avenue - Pássaro Extinto

The "Real" Thing - Artistic Interpretation

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. It stood about a metre (3.3 feet) tall, weighing about 20 kilograms (44 lb). The species lost the ability to fly because on Mauritius food was abundant and mammalian predators were absent. It was related to pigeons and doves, and its closest relative was the Rodrigues Solitaire, which is also extinct. The external features of the dodo are only known from paintings and written accounts from the 17th century, but because these vary considerably, and only a few sketches are known to have been drawn from life, mystery remains over its exact appearance. The same is true of its habitat and behaviour.
The dodo was first mentioned by Dutch sailors in 1598. By 1681, all dodos had been killed by hungry sailors or their domesticated animals. This was not realized at the time, since the dodo barely left any traces after its extinction, and was later believed to have simply been a mythological creature until the 19th century, when research was conducted on some of the few surviving remains of specimens that had been taken to Europe in the 17th century. Since then, a large amount of sub-fossil material has been collected from Mauritius, increasing the amount of solid evidence relating to the bird. The extinction of the bird, within 80 years of its discovery, made people realise for the first time that humans could induce the extinction of plants and animals. The dodo was made well-known to the public due to a notable role in Alice in Wonderland, and it has since become a fixture in popular culture. Its name has subsequently become associated with the notion of extinction and obsolescence. - Wikipedia

17th Century Dutch Illustration Of A Dodo

O dodó (português europeu) ou dodô (português brasileiro), também chamado dronte (Raphus cucullatus) foi uma ave não-voadora com cerca de um metro de altura que vivia nas Ilhas Maurícias, uma das ilhas Mascarenhas na costa leste da África, perto de Madagascar. Se alimentava de frutas e acabou por ser extinta graças à ação do ser humano durante o processo de colonização da ilha. É da família dos pombos, tinha asas curtas e bico longo e pesado. O Dodô não tinha medo das pessoas, o que, combinado com o fato de não voar, fez dele uma presa fácil para os humanos. Os primeiros colonos da ilha foram os portugueses, que chegaram em 1505. O nome dodó provavelmente tem origem no aspecto desajeitado destas aves; por isso, os batizaram de "doudos", ou seja "doidos". O dodó era uma excelente fonte de alimentação, pesando cerca de 16 quilos. Os dodós adultos foram caçados, mas esta não foi a única ameaça que passaram a enfrentar. Quando os humanos chegaram, trouxeram consigo outros animais, como porcos, ratos e macacos, que destruíam os ninhos do dodó. O último dodó foi morto em 1681, e não foi preservado nenhum espécime completo, apenas uma cabeça e um pé (o que restou dum espécime num museu na Inglaterra após um incêndio). - Wikipedia


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