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   Where did the Dodo bird live?

   • The island of Mauritius, where the Dodo Bird lived. Sometime during the Pleistocene epoch, a badly lost flock of pigeons landed on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, located about 700 miles east of Madagascar.

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   What is a dodo bird?

   • The dodo was primarily a forest bird, occasionally venturing closer to the shoreline. More than 26 million years ago, these pigeon-like birds found paradise while exploring the Indian Ocean: the Mascarene Islands. With abundant food and no predators, the birds had no reason to leave.

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   Where did dodos live?

   • Reports and sketches suggest that they lived in forests on the dry portions of the island’s coast. Scientists have also found some remains in coastal caves and highlands, suggesting the birds may have lived in mountainous regions as well. Dodos lived exclusively on the island of Mauritius.

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   Can a dodo fly?

   • Dodos are an extinct species of bird that was native to Mauritius, and island near Madagascar. Much like the flightless cormorant, these birds could not fly. These birds do not have any living relatives or descendants, but their closest relatives are pigeons and doves. Unlike pigeons and doves, they could stand over three feet tall!

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   Habitat of the Dodo. There are few descriptions of the preferred habitat of this species. Reports and sketches suggest that they lived in forests on the dry portions of the island’s coast. Scientists have also found some remains in coastal caves and highlands, suggesting the birds may have lived in mountainous regions as well. Distribution of ...

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   Jun 20, 2024 · dodo, (Raphus cucullatus), extinct flightless bird of Mauritius (an island of the Indian Ocean), one of the three species that constituted the family Raphidae, usually placed with pigeons in the order Columbiformes but sometimes separated as an order (Raphiformes).

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   The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest relative was the also-extinct and flightless Rodrigues solitaire .

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   • The Dodo Bird Lived on the Island of Mauritius. Sometime during the Pleistocene epoch, a badly lost flock of pigeons landed on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, located about 700 miles east of Madagascar.
   • Until Humans, the Dodo Bird Had No Predators. Until the modern era, the dodo had led a charmed life: There were no predatory mammals, reptiles, or even large insects on its island habitat and thus no need to evolve any natural defenses.
   • The Dodo Was 'Secondarily Flightless' It takes a lot of energy to maintain powered flight, which is why nature favors this adaptation only when it's absolutely necessary.
   • The Dodo Bird Laid Only One Egg at a Time. Evolution is a conservative process: A given animal will produce only as many young as is strictly necessary to propagate the species.

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   The dodo was primarily a forest bird, occasionally venturing closer to the shoreline. More than 26 million years ago, these pigeon-like birds found paradise while exploring the Indian Ocean:...

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   Aug 24, 2017 · Scientists are piecing together clues about the life of the dodo, hundreds of years after the flightless bird was driven to extinction.

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    Julian explains what went wrong for the dodo, why artists exaggerate and which other forgotten species died out alongside the bird. What do we know about the dodo (and what don't we know)? Despite its relatively recent extinction, the life history of the dodo continues to elude us.