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The odo (Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Related to pigeons and doves, it stood about a metre (three feet) tall, weighing about 20 kilograms (44 pounds), living on fruit and nesting on the ground.

Trivia about dodo

  • "Last sightings" of this flightless bird were reported in 1662,1674 & 1681
  • Known scientifically as Raphus cucullatus, the last of these flightless birds died around 1680
  • I hate to call you a dumb this, like the extinct bird from Mauritius, but what were you thinking?
  • The island of Mauritius has featured this extinct bird on quite a few stamps
  • Pigs were among the creatures that killed off this bird on Mauritius in the 1600s
  • Taking its name from a Portuguese word for "simpleton", this critter famously went extinct way back in 1681
  • Will Cuppy wrote that this bird "seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct"
  • Native to Mauritius & now extinct, it's known mainly by early drawings & body fragments in museums
  • The name of this extinct bird is a musical note said twice
  • Discovered & decimated in less than 200 years, its name is from the Portuguese for "foolish"
  • The true one of these unfortunate birds had the scientific name Raphus cucullatus
  • It was the size of a turkey & had a large hooked bill
  • The solitaire, a more agile relative of this extinct bird of Mauritius, lasted another 100 years
  • Although this bird was extinct on Mauritius by 1681, one species survived on Rodriguez Island up until about 1800
  • Oxford lays claim to a head & a foot of one of these extinct birds
  • This animal was last observed in 1681 on Mauritius
  • This flightless forest dweller seen here went the way of itself around 1680
  • The lack of this bird on Mauritius almost caused the extinction of a nut tree there
  • DNA from the remains of this extinct bird at a British museum proved that it had been part of the pigeon family
  • The reunion solitaire went extinct by 1746, about 65 years later than this flightless relative of Mauritius

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