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The Dodo bird has been extinct for 400 years, but a smaller lookalike relative called the Manumea bird, also called the tooth-billed pigeon, still exists on two islands in Samoa. It is on the endangered list and consideration is being given to changing that to critically endangered. Conservationists are learning more about the Manumea in order to create an effective recovery plan, since the population of 7,000 in the 1980s has been drastically reduced to a few hundred. One of the methods being considered is captive breeding.

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