Thomas Desegaulx de Nolet
First of all the dodo bird is extin and he has been viewed as a rather plump bird, weighing approximately 20-23 kilograms. He has grey feathers and he has a hooked beak. What makes him different from the others birds is that he cannot fly and he has an important size. He has a large build very small wings that cannot make him fly.
Now, Relics and bones remain but without the entire skeleton, we cannot know his exact weight but the scientists estimate his weight approximately 20 or 23 kg.
The Dodo nests were built on the ground. The baby Dodos were protected by digging in soil and hiding in the hole to protect themselves from the dogs and pigs. While the dodo had existed for centuries or more in the natural New Zealand environment, the impact of mankind through hunting and the introduction of new predators placed too great a strain upon the dodo.
Soon it was lost to the world.
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The Dodo & Given, by G. Edwards 1750 |
References : www.davidreilly.com
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