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Dodos
Questions about the extinct species of flightless bird called the Dodo, native to the island of Mauritius.
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The dodos feathers were about from 7 to 11 inches long.
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Kingdom: Animalia now time for the food:
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves Fish,Meat,and Fruit,ALSO worms, and little insects. is all i know they eat.....
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Subfamily: †Raphinae
Genus: †Raphus
Brisson, 1760
Species: †R. cucullatus Sorry if i wasn't much help......
It was over-hunted by human settlers and the predators, such as dogs, they introduced.
What are 5 reasons why birds are becoming extinct?
There are many reasons why animals get extinct. One reason is pollution. Everyday, humans throw litter in bodies of water and ride cars, which harms many animals. Another reason is because of habitat loss. Humans also cut down trees in rain-forests just to make space for new roads and such. The third reason is because of predators. When the population of a predator of a species suddenly increases, the population of the prey decreases, making it extinct. The fourth reason is because of long-term environment trends. One example is the dinosaurs, which, according to scientists, became extinct because of a slow cooling of the Earth. The last reason is because of hunting. Many animals became extinct because of hunting.
Dodo birds aren't actually dumb. People think that they are dumb because they didn't realise that dodo birds knew that they were being killed, but by being a dodo bird, they couldn't escape. Dodo birds are naturally fat, which slows down their running, and dodo birds can't fly. Their predators would always kill them.
The dodo could not fly, as it was quite a heavy bird for its size, and its wings were far too small to support it in flight. Flight was not a requirement for the dodo in its habitat.
The dodo became extinct during the 17th century. The last known specimen was believed to have died sometime between 1662 and 1690.
Dodo birds became extinct because they were flightless and couldn't move very quick. They were hunted and killed by many animals, including humans, until they were finally extinct.
they were hunted some didn't have enough food to fend themselves off and climates changed in some places, just like every other animal that's about to be extinct like the panda :(
What is the taxonomic rank of a dodo bird?
well,toxonomic ranks of a dodo bird depends on the species and age of the bird. if we are talking about a common dodo bird, the taxonomic rank is from 7-10
Are there any more dodos in the world?
Yes! I have a pet 1!
...not really, i dont know if there are any left... I thought they were extinct.
How did dodos make their nests?
get two Eritrean toes mash them up together with added gun power and ammo magazines robel tesfay would be a good subject to study
The dodo bird is extinct, so there are no species left. When they did exist, the dodo bird was a single species of flightless, 3 foot tall, fruit eating bird that lived on Mauritius Island in the Indian Ocean. The defenseless birds were overhunted by sailors and introduced predators, such as pigs, cats, and dogs, and their nests were raided by macaques and rats. That, along with deforestation, led to their extinction shortly before 1700.
Because of extinction, it is not known how often Dodo's ate. Based on scientific hypotheses and journals of sailors of the 16th/17th century, it is believed that the Dodo bird ate often. The sailors said that the birds ate rocks quite frequently, and fruits at a ever so often pace. ---- References: Brown, B. 2002. "Raphus cucullatus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 01, 2008 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Raphus_cucullatus.html. http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/dodobird.htm by sm (initials)
Do birds eat small ripe fruit off trees?
It would depend on what species of bird, and what sorts of fruit really.
What bird most recently became extinct?
Actually it was not declared extinct... The Black Rhino is critically endangered.
The Baiji DolphinFunctionally extinct by 2006.
IUCN: database entry.
Scientific name:
Lipotes vexillifer.
Picture source (Wikipedia).
An expedition organized by The Baiji Foundation in late 2006 sought evidence that Baiji white dolphins still existed in their only habitat, the Yangtze river in China. Scientists from six nations on two research vessels travelled for almost 3500 kilometres to the Yangtze Delta, and then retraced their route. They were equipped with sophisticated optical instruments and underwater microphones, but were unable to detect any surviving dolphins. The Foundation published a report on the expedition and declared the species functionally extinct. What does functionally extinct mean? It means too few potential breeding pairs remain to ensure that the species will survive.
Mauritius is a small island situated off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean. It is also to be found in the east of Madagascar at a distance of about 900 kilometres. Mauritius forms part of the mascarene islands which also consist of Reunion island and Rodrigues.
It's in the Indian Ocean about 560 mi.(900km) east of Madagascar.
The sayings is, 'As dead as the Dodo! So 'to dodo' is possibly to reach a dead end and be unable to complete a task, or have to give up an enterprise, etc.
Did dodo birds coexist with mammoths?
Although they both lived in they lieved in the bird lived same time period, the dodo bird lived longer than the mammoth and was in a warm moutain climate until in 1689, pirates of sorts came for food and saw theese stupid fat birds who couldnt fly running around they killed them for food and rats they had brung with them ate away at the egg's
What was it about the Dodos nature that made it easy to catch?
The Dodo was easy prey to sailors who caught them for food as they couldn't fly away, and living on isolated islands, were too trusting and didn't try to escape. Rats coming off the ships, ate eggs and nestlings, and hastened the dodo's extinction.
