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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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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.
Do male ivory billed woodpeckers look the same as female ivory billed woodpeckers?
No. They both have crests, but the male's is a bright red and the female's is all black.
What is the dodos breeding habits?
dodo birds behave in a seemingly idiotic way such as landing on boats waiting to be shot.
When was the last sighting of a dodo bird?
funny you say that... i actually ran into one yesterday.. they are still very much alive and running around. you have to look carefully..
Dodos were land dwelling birds that ate seeds, and fruits that had fallen from trees.
Researchers say that there are none left but I think/hope there are still some that are not noticed.
Although quite famous, the Dodo is sadly not the only extinct bird. It had been calculated that since the year 1500, over 190 species of birds had disappeared from the face of earth forever, among them the aforementioned Dodo, the Elephant bird, the New Zealand Quail, the Red Rail and the Bermuda Night Heron.
Not in the traditional sense of dinosaurs, a dodo bird is not a dinosaur. "Classic" dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago, whereas dodo birds only went extinct recently (a few hundred years). However, many scientists today agree that birds as a whole are dinosaurs.
Dodo birds can swims but they are flightless. They have webbed feet.
The Dodo is an extinct bird. If a stuffed one is offered for sale, possibly at an auction, the price will depend on what the buyer is willing to pay.
What are the subgroups of sponges?
Phylum Porifera
Class Calcarea
Order Clathrinida
Order Leucosoleniida
Order Sycettida
Order Leucettida
Class Hexactinellida
Class Demospongiae
Order Haplosclerida
Order Poecilosclerida
Class Sclerospongiae
With about 5000 species known across the world. Sponges are primarily
marine, but around 150 species live in fresh water. Sponges have
cellular-level organization, meaning that that their cells are
specialized so that different cells perform different functions, but
similar cells are not organized into tissues and bodies are a sort of
loose aggregation of different kinds of cells. This is the simplest
kind of cellular organization found among parazoans.
No. The dodo died out in the 1600s. There is no evidence at all that any still exist.
Will the dodo ever be revived?
It isn't possible yet, but it may be in the future. It requires a number of problems in genetics to be solved before we can even think about reviving the Dodo.
The biggest ethical question is 'should we?'
The biggest technical question is 'Can we?'
Should we try to resurrect species that have died out through natural selection or even human intervention? Isn't that like trying to play God?
Technically genetics is at a very early stage and simply can't do what science fiction films like Jurassic park lead you to believe is possible. certainly is it not currently possible to simply take some DNA and insert it onto a machine and grow an embryo, then hatch it.
We have the ability to clone DNA but that is only half the equation. To create life you need an egg, and there aren't any viable Dodo eggs around these days. So even if we could replicate the DNA instructions to create a Dodo we couldn't actually bring it to life.
Is there a way around that? Possibly, but its not viable yet. We would have to implant the DNA into the nearest living relative of the Dodo bird. I don't know what that its but for demonstration purposes lets call it a chicken.
So we get a live chicken egg and we insert our replicated DNA strands from the Dodo and stimulate the Zygote to start dividing. Eventually a chicken Dodo cross is born. But this little guy is more chicken than Dodo. So we grow that chicken/Dodo up and when it lays an egg we take that and we do the same thing over again. This chicken is now 1 part chicken and 2 parts Dodo. So we do it again and again and again (At least 16 times).
Eventually we get something which is actually a hybrid animal but looks something like a Dodo. Is this a Dodo? No its a hybrid. Was it ethical to create a cross part chicken part dodo?
Why stop there if this is ethical then why not create a half man half bird? What makes that less or more ethical than recreating a dodo?
