Skeleton
Recent, Mauritius
67 cm x 30 cm x 63 cm
(26” l x 12” w x 25” h)
The dodo is an icon for extinction. This is one of very few surviving complete skeletons of a Dodo. The Dodo was a flightless bird closely related to living pigeons and was endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. It’s extinction in the mid to late 17th Century was an entirely man-made disaster. Rats and cats introduced to the island by sailors decimated the eggs and chicks and were the main cause of its extinction. The Dodo was said not to be good eating according to sailors’ accounts.
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