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	Dodo - Dodo
		Dodo is a dynamic, modern environmental organisation that avoids fl-and-white views of the world.
		Dodo approaches environmental issues in an open-minded way, trying to find new perspectives.
		Dodo discusses environmental issues openly and brings together people from different fields to look for comprehensive views.
	www.dodo.org /english (160 words)

	Description of the Dodo bird (raphus cucullatus)
		The dodo was a flightless member of the pigeon family.
		The dodo was a large, plump bird covered in soft, grey feathers, with a plume of white at its tail.
		Strickland, H.E. and Melville, A.G. The Dodo and Its Kindred.
	www.birds.mu /Extinct/Dodo.htm (1039 words)

	Raphus Cucullatus (Dodo Bird) Data Sheet
		The dodo was a large, plump bird covered in soft, grey feathers, with a plume of white at its tail.
		The main purpose dodos served to humans, in the brief contact between the two species, was as food.
		Strickland, H.E. and Melville, A.G. The Dodo and Its Kindred.
	www.encyclopedia.mu /Nature/Fauna/Birds/Extinct/Dodo.htm (897 words)

	Dodo - LoveToKnow 1911
		DODO (from the Portuguese Doudo, a simpleton), a large bird formerly inhabiting the island of Mauritius, but now extinct - the Didus ineptus of Linnaeus.
		Schlegel's supposed origin of "Dodo." The Portuguese must have been the prior nomenclators, and if, as is most likely, some of their nation, or men acquainted with their language, were employed to pilot the Hollanders, we see at once how the first Dutch name Walghvogel would give way.
		The dodo is said to have inhabited forests and to have laid one large white egg on a mass of grass.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Dodo (2044 words)

	Dodo
		There are no museum specimens of the dodo still extant today, but from artists' renditions we know that the dodo had blue-grey plumage, a 23-centimetre (9-inch) flish hooked bill with reddish point, very small useless wings, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly feathers high on its rear end.
		Dodos were hardly ever eaten by the Portugese[?], who found the dodos were hard to eat and very messy.
		The last dodo was killed in 1681, only 80 years after their discovery, and no complete specimens are preserved, although a number of museums are home to dodo skeletons.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/do/Dodo.html (580 words)

	Dodo Juliman Widianto \| Ashoka.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dodo's entrepreneurial skills are evident in the way he has helped the groups organize their own financial "institutions" by pooling their savings right from the start, during the time they plan all the other details of the project.
		Dodo is now embarking on a more complex level of activity by including basic infrastructure in the design of his projects and by involving a wider group of actors in the process.
		Dodo was in the Scout movement during primary and junior high school and feels that it instilled in him a sense of social concern.
	www.ashoka.org /node/2681 (1692 words)

	Images of the Dodo Bird
		The dodo or dronte (scientific name Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird native only to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
		The dodo was a flightless member of the pigeon family.
		Most people believe that the dodo was a fat, ungainly bird, which died out because it was too slow to escape when hunted.
	www.encyclopedia.mu /Nature/Fauna/Birds/Extinct/DodoImages.htm (705 words)

	Dodo
		The sailors mistook the gentle spirit of the dodo, and its lack of fear of the new predators, as stupidity.
		The Dodo has its reasons for being as it is. It evidently did not require more for the circumstances in which it was called upon to live.
		Another peculiarity of the Dodo is that once the nest was ready for the female companion to lay her egg, the male looked for a white pebble of the size of a hen's egg and which it carefully placed near the nest.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0110237/Geography__An_overview/Geography/Fauna___Flora/Dodo_/dodo__0.html (1063 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dodo or Dodaerse is recorded in captain Willem van West-Zanen's journal four years later (Staub 1996), but it is unclear whether he was the first one to use this name, because before the Dutch, the Portuguese had already visited the island in 1507, but did not settle permanently.
		The tambalacoque, also known as the "dodo tree", was hypothesized by Stanley Temple (1977) to have been eaten from by Dodos, and only by passing through the digestive tract of the dodo could the seeds germinate; he claimed that the tambalacocque was now nearly extinct due to the dodo's disappearance.
		Some bones of at least two dodos were found in caves at Baie du Cap which were used as shelters by fugitive slaves and convicts in the 17th century, but due to their isolation in high, broken terrain were not easily accessible to dodos naturally (Janoo 2005).
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Dodo (2102 words)

	Dodo - Super Mario Wiki
		Dodo is Valentina's assistant and second-in-command of her forces during her coup of Nimbus Land.
		It was Dodo's job to impersonate Prince Mallow, the long lost heir to the Nimbus Land throne.
		Although Dodo was obviously a large bird, he surprisingly fooled the populace of Nimbus Land into thinking he was actually the prince.
	www.mariowiki.com /index.php?title=Dodo&redirect=no (479 words)

	Bagheera: An Endangered Species and Endangered Animal Online Education Resource
		The dodo bird inhabited the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, where it lived undisturbed for so long that it lost its need and ability to fly.
		Although the tale of the dodo's demise is well documented, no complete specimens of the bird were preserved; there are only fragments and sketches.
		It turns out that the dodo ate the fruit of this tree, and it was only by passing through the dodo's digestive system that the seeds became active and could grow.
	www.bagheera.com /inthewild/ext_dodobird.htm (578 words)

	Dodo Stamps
		This dodo stamp is part of a five stamp set showing extinct birds.
		This stamp is part of a set of three issued to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniverary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
		This stamp shows the skeleton of a dodo along with George Clark, a naturalist and schoolteacher on Mauritius.
	www.pibburns.com /cryptost/dodo.htm (588 words)

	Recently Extinct Animals - Dodo - Raphus calculatus
		The theory that the tree required the dodo had been put forward by Stanley Temple and this theory has been debated a lot and others have suggested that the decline of the tree was exaggerated, or that other extinct animals may also have been distributing the seeds.
		All that remains of the dodo is a head and foot at Oxford University Museum of Natural History, a foot in the British Museum in London, a head in Copenhagen, and a variety of bones strewn across museums in Europe, the United States and Mauritius.
		Their analysis shows the dodo to be close relative, with its nearest living relative the Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica) from the Nicobar Islands and nearby south-east Asia.
	home.conceptsfa.nl /~pmaas/rea/dodobird.htm (1447 words)

	Dodo Summary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The few dodos in inaccessible areas that could not be found by the colonists were eliminated by the animals introduced by the settlers.
		The Dodo is the symbol of the Brasseries de Bourbon, a popular brewer on Réunion Island.
		The Dodo is the symbol and mascot of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoological Park, founded by Gerald Durrell.
	www.bookrags.com /Dodo (1752 words)

	dodo - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The Mauritius dodo once inhabited the forests of the island of Mauritius.
		Dodo, naturalist who studied the dodo, overhunting as cause of extinction
		Although birds, with some exceptions, are tremendously beneficial to humans, humans have a long history of causing harm to birds.
	encarta.msn.com /dodo.html (114 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dodo (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
		This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years or less.
		The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book John Tenniels illustration for A Mad Tea-Party, 1865 Alices Adventures in Wonderland is a work of childrens literature by the British mathematician and author Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
		Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Carroll, and the For other uses of the word duck, see Duck (disambiguation) Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Oxyurinae Anatinae Merginae Drake Mallard Duck is the common name for a number of types of bird in the family Anatidae.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dodo-%28Alice%27s-Adventures-in-Wonderland%29 (544 words)

	LiveScience.com - Scientists Find Cache of Dodo Bird Bones
		The Dodo was made famous by a political satire in the book Alice in Wonderland, in which a Dodo leads a "caucus race'' in which the rules are hazy, contestants run in circles, and everybody wins a prize.
		The Dodo has become a byword for an extinct animal, giving rise to the expression "dead as a dodo.'' But it was just one of many animals driven to extinction, including half the native bird species of Mauritius.
		A replica of a Dodo skeleton at the Naturalis Museum in Leiden, the Netherlands, Friday, Dec, 23, 2005.
	www.livescience.com /animalworld/ap_051224_dodo.html (521 words)

	A brief history of the dodo bird
		The Dodo were huge birds of unknown species that existed only on the island of Mauritius which had no human habitation prior to 1598.
		The manner in which the Dodo were obliterated from the surface of the earth has left a lasting impact on the natural history of our global eco-system: in fact a lesson in extinction to humanity.
		So much so, that the English expression 'As dead as the Dodo' had to be coined to emphasize the concept of total annihilation or non-existence (by death) of something, or someone, or some idea, either in the literal or abstract sense.
	www.mauritiusdelight.com /dodohist.htm (338 words)

	dodo, extinct bird. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The dodo was closely related to the two species of solitaire bird, extinct flightless giants found on the other islands in the Mascarene Islands.
		Although related to the pigeon, the dodo was larger than the wild turkey.
		Although the bird’s flesh was tough and unpalatable, European sailors and the pigs and rats they brought to Mauritius slaughtered the birds and destroyed its eggs, and it became extinct in roughly 50 years.
	www.bartleby.com /65/do/dodo.html (188 words)

	ADW: Raphus cucullatus: Information
		Dodo birds were once the inhabitants of Mauritius, a small, oyster-shaped island which lies approximately 500 miles east of Madagascar.
		There are a few fossils excavated from the island, which are kept at the British Museum, and a foot and a beak which are preserved at Oxford, but there are no complete stuffed specimens (models in museums are based on partial remains).
		The interference of the foreign animals coupled with the continued overuse of the birds for food led to its total extinction by 1681.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Raphus_cucullatus.html (1085 words)

	Mauritius Dodo aka Dodo
		As a close relative of the modern pigeon and dove, the dodo lives in Australlia Italic textnearest living relative is the Caloenas nicobarica from the Nicobar Islands.
		The decaying remnants of the last complete stuffed dodo, in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, was ordered to be burned by the museum's director in 1755; the foot and head were salvaged from this specimen, and are currently on display.
		Nevertheless, from artists' renditions we know that the Dodo had blue-grey plumage, a 23-centimetre (9-inch) flish hooked bill with a reddish point, very small wings, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly feathers high on its rear end.
	www.avianweb.com /dodopigeon.html (470 words)

	The Dodo Returns? -- Animal Planet -- Animal Alert
		March 7 — DNA extracted from 300-year-old dodo remains is giving scientists a better understanding of the bird's origins and family tree, a team from Oxford University and the Natural History Museum, London reported in the current issue of Science.
		The extinct dodo's closest living relative is the Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica), the research team discovered.
		Zoologists long suspected that the dodo was closely related to pigeons and doves, but were unable to confirm it until now.
	animal.discovery.com /news/briefs/200203/dodoreturn.html (287 words)

	Dodo - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Dodo, common name applied to large, flightless birds, now extinct.
		The Mauritius dodo once inhabited the forests of the island of Mauritius.
		He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Dodo.html (134 words)

	Dorothea, the Dodo Bird in Middlemarch
		Fortunately, the history of the dodo bird is well documented, as is Dorothea's fictional life, and comparison of the two produces many intriguing parallels that provide insight into the caged and flightless lives of Victorian women.
		Brooke's motivation reveals, his remark was totally unconscious, even involuntary: "[T]he remark lay in his mind as lightly as the broken wing of an insect among all the other fragments there, and a chance current had sent it alighting to her" (13).
		Just as the dodo birds were oblivious to the predatory motives of the new visitors on their island, Dorothea, in her tranquil microcosm without a middle-aged woman to guide her, is oblivious to Sir James's intention to stuff and hang her on his mantelpiece as a trophy wife:
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/authors/eliot/middlemarch/jones2.html (1972 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| From Our Own Correspondent \| Bringing the dodo back to life
		For all the evidence we have suggests that the dodo was singularly cumbersome and defenceless.
		What really finished the dodo off, other than Man himself, were the rats that hitched a ride to Mauritius on some of the Dutch ships.
		For the rats, the dodo's eggs, just sitting there in the grass, were like Christmas and Easter all rolled into one.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/from_our_own_correspondent/2255991.stm (717 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: The Hollywood Dodo: A Novel
		Rick harbors an obsession with dodo birds which leads him (and the reader) to the mysterious story of William Draper, a 17th century medical student afflicted with erythrohepatic porphyria, a genetic condition that causes skin to blister with exposure to sunlight.
		Draper, too, is obsessed with dodos, and sets out to procure one of the last of the species on display in a seedy quarter of London.
		Dodos are supposed to be long extinct birds, but in the novel "The Hollywood Dodo" by British writer Geoff Nicholson, there are Dodos galore.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=0743257790 (1052 words)

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