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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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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?
Dodo's were not predators, in fact on the island where they lived there were no predators to speak of until man arrived. The bird was so trusting and innocent the men who discovered it claimed its innocence of what might happen to it was stupidity, thus the name Dodo. Dodo's ate seeds and nuts to survive.
Invasive species and human hunters, as well as its natural predators.
it Doesn't, the Dodo bird is extinct.
The dodo doesn't live anymore, but when it did live it lived on islands in the Indian Ocean. It was flightless so stayed on the island for their entire lives.
They are now extinct and they used to live in MAURITIUS, a small island in the Indian Ocean. They were killed by travelers {specially Dutch} in the mid 17th century.Being flightless, the dodos were easy targets and unable to escape.
The dodo used to live on the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Most of it's food came from the forest that covered the island. It had no predators so it didn't need to fly.
What caused the extinction moa bird?
Birds can become extinct for a variety of different reasons. Human hunting, loss of habitat resulting in a decrease in food, or severe climate events can lead to extinction.
How can the extinction of dodos be prevented?
Dodos are already extinct...ur late
you have to punch a small cat in the face and they wont be extinct anymore
Was the dodo bird in competition with other species?
Small mammals and small birds could compete with the Dodo for food.
While carnivores would kill the for food.
What did many people come think about the dodo to be a figment of an artists imagination?
it was odd looking
How many years have passed since the dodo became extinct?
The last dod bird died around 1680.......it's about 330 years.
What did the dodo bird evolve from?
The dodo was a flightless bird solely found on the the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius that became extinct in the mid-to-late 17th century. Related to pigeons and doves, it stood about a meter tall, weighing about 20 kilograms (44 lb), living on fruit and nesting on the ground. The dodo was a flightless bird that lived solely on the ground
