Dodo (dodo, mauritius dodo) is a flightless bird, found only in the African island nation of Mauritius. Hypertrophy of the body is always to make it faltered, along with a big mouth, the way it seems Some ugly. Fortunately, the island without their natural enemies, so they comfortably built in the woods brooding nest, breed. Dodo is a huge bird, so that you may not believe it is the birds. Because it does not fly. It is a chicken family. European sailors discovered the island of Mauritius in 1507 this bird. When they got talking about this strange bird can not fly, you can imagine it is hard to believe their story. Mauritius Island in the _set_tlement of Europeans and their top of the pigs soon found that the birds eat them very sweet. So there are many of the dodo been eaten. As of 1681, no longer living in the island found a dodo. Few of the Dodo in the 17th century was brought to the UK, but 200 years, no one saw the living dodo. This is the phrase "the same as the dodo disappeared" came from. Because they are completely extinct, but also for all known from the. Species Category: Chordata door -> vertebrate subphylum -> -> Aves -> this subclass Bird -> -> this jaw Head -> dove-shaped head ->->-> dove Section -> -> ->
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Distribution
Dodo produced in the African island nation of Mauritius
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The story of extinct dodo
The late 16th century, with rifles and hounds of the Europeans came to Mauritius. Not fly and run faster in the coming doom the dodo. Europeans came to the island, the dodo became their main source of food. From that point on, guns to shoot dogs, birds eggs, play, a lot of dodo was killed. Even the chicks and eggs can not be spared. the beginning, to the thousands of Europeans every day only to kill tens of thousands of the dodo, but due to excessive hunting, and soon the number of killed them less and less every day, only to hit a few times a day only the. In 1681, the last dodo was a brutal murder, and since then, the Earth never see the dodo, unless the specimens in the museum and the artist's picture in the room. Strangely, after the extinction of the Dodo, Mauritius and the Dodo is a specialty, like a big valuable trees --- trees are getting scarce cranial Lam, seems to be suffering infertility. Did the dodo is like cranial Lam Tai forest tree of life, in the Dodo passes through lush tree is always a large cranial Lam, seedlings thrive. to 80 years in the 20th century, Mauritius, only 13 large cranial Lam tree, this rare tree Seeing also disappeared from the earth. Rugby Tree Large cranial scientists anxious about the situation so that, save a large tree into a tight skull Lam topic. Scientists speculate through a variety of experiments and analysis, but a few years later, no progress in .1981, the U.S. Ecology Temple is also home to Mauritius to study this tree, this year happens to be the 300th anniversary of extinct dodo. Temple carefully measured a large cranial Lam tree rings and found that it happens to be 300 years old, that is , Dodo extinction date is also the sterilization of large trees when the cranial Lam. Temple through the meticulous found the remains of the dodo skull in a few large tree fruit Lam, the original Dodo like to eat the fruit of this tree. Finally inferred Temple, Tai Lam skull was crossing the fruit of the tree After crossing the birds eat the fruit is digested, the seeds also absorb outside hard shell, so to be able to germinate seeds excreted. Finally scientists to turkey to eat the fruit of a large cranial Lam tree to replace the Dodo Since then, this tree last survivor. Dodo tree with large cranial Lam each other, the birds to feed on fruit trees to the birds to take root, they are a loss for both sides, a prosperity.
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Dodo extinction time
渡渡鸟灭绝时间
Extinct Dodo 1681 Bbc news reporters in an interview, just spent 36 years old, Dr. Cooper birthday joy was palpable. "This is still surviving with Dodo's dna, it has been seriously damaged and broken into small fragments, but these small fragments still retain." Although small fragments of these dna, lab biologists, able to show an unprecedented wonderful new world. As with all of the zoologist, Dr. Cooper and his colleagues first started, is to explore the evolutionary tree Dodo position. For comparison, the researchers used to live in Mauritius from near the island of Rodrigues island solitaire birds, but also extract the sample dna. As with the dodo, solitaire is a long-extinct birds in size, not the flight of birds. Long ago, scientists doubted solitaire is probably the same with the dodo bird, or in the blood is very close. However, as both are already extinct, this has not been confirmed. In addition, Dr. Cooper, 35 pigeons from the existing extracted for comparison of dna. In the study, Dr. Cooper, the most exciting thing also is that the successful extraction of dna Dodo still viable for such a hundred years ago the resurrection of extinct birds had already provided a great possibility. With the cloning technology advances, the film "Jurassic Park" dinosaurs in the resurrection is no longer in the eyes of many biologists is completely impossible. With the extinction of the dinosaurs millions of years compared to the difficulties of cloning Dodo apparently reduced the number of degrees.
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Dodo said the new extinction
The theory led to extinction of most of the charges plus Dodo early human _set_tlers in the body. The 16th century, the first _set_tlers found in Mauritius plump flightless dodo was, then this clumsy flightless bird hunting activities carried out brutal, and ultimately lead to the extinction of these birds, animals . But now, this view does not seem entirely correct, natural disasters seems to be the main cause extinction of the dodo. The researchers found evidence of the latest in a statement said: "buried fossil rich strata show that the survival of natural disasters dodo devastating damage to the environment." 1. Died in a hurricane or flood Discoverer of the tomb Christian Fu Kuen said that although the latest findings do not refute the theory of human hunting, but scientists believe the dodo may be caused by large-scale deaths caused by hurricanes or floods, and these natural disasters occurred at a time earlier than the time of human migration to the island. Kuhn said the bodies of these animals at least 500 years. "May be a hurricane or a spate of hurricanes, floods or sea level may be a sudden surge, resulting in these animals eventually died in the island." Kuhn said. June of this year, scientists in the southeast of Mauritius, a large number of sugar mills were found near the remains of the dodo and other animals and plants intact fossils, including the now extinct Mauritius large sea turtles, parrots, and some tree seeds. 2. Not rule out human factors Dodo of Mauritius endemic species in the lone dove, weighing up to 20 kg, will not fly. After the extinction of the dodo, scientists have always thought that the dodo's extinction can not rule out the human factor. Now, although there is evidence that most of the dodo died of natural disaster, but still can not deny the course of human extinction in the Dodo played a negative role. 1505, the Portuguese colonists from the Atlantic Ocean by boat around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius before the board and saw the forest habitat of a bird, size of a swan, dressed in a gray feathers, tail too long, curled up like a flower cluster. Body fat, half-bald head, short thick leg bones, wings short, bent end of the black mouth hooks. This is a flightless bird, over social life, staggering walk, side to side. The Portuguese came here, it is easy to capture this slow birds. Therefore, they call it Dodo (dodo is stupid in Portuguese means). Dodo dating back 20 million years ago appears, has been living far from the mainland in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. British author Lewis Carroll in his famous fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland" out in the vivid picture of a "love of Shakespeare's position with the thinking" of the dodo, but in fact, the students the British in 1832 failed to end his life seen a living dodo. Roundup Not long ago, scientists discovered a large African island nation of Mauritius dodo grave, which is extinct dodo solve the mystery of human provides important clues. Scientists have said that the existing evidence that these birds, animals died a natural disaster at a time when man has not boarded the southwest of the island in the Indian Ocean.
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Introduction Dodo Mystery
Disappeared as a typical bird, the dodo live in the Indian Ocean, Mauritius, also known as fool pigeon, plump body weight can be 20 kg. Dodo looks a bit like turkey, wings very small, only in the summer to do their own fan fan fan to cool. But the big head and mouth are hooked, the beak green and white, front-end is a yellow hook. Small and fluffy and curly tail; was covered with yellow and green and white feathers. Since 1500, the West has never been to Mauritius, although the mariner who had history of passing through here, but until then the Portuguese and Dutch arrived and established maritime trade routes, Dodo happy until the end of the day . 1505 when the Portuguese navigator came to the island, worth the name "Bat Island." The Dutch went to the island in 1598, and the king in the Netherlands named Morris island as "Mauritius." 1715 by the French occupation of Mauritius, in 1814 became a British colony hundred and fifty eight years. March 12, 1968 declaration of independence, a member of the Commonwealth. Independence, the use of red, blue, yellow, green four-color flag, national emblem painted on the dodo in the pattern, making it the national bird of Mauritius. This is neither because of its beautiful appearance, not because of their unique habits, but because of its important symbolic role. In the 15th century, the number of the island is still a lot of the Dodo. However, since the European _set_tlers have _set_tled here after they bring not only pigs, dogs, monkeys, rats and other animals begin to prey on eggs and chicks dodo, and they have started to cut down large tracts of forests and the meat tender Dodo to wantonly kill delicious eventually led to extinction of the Dodo in 1690 before and after. Now, the island habitat of a tropical tree species 名叫卡尔瓦 Australia is also facing extinction. Carl Valia tree 30 meters high, now only dozens of trees are 300 years old. The trees are falling every year more than usual wrinkled plum fruit, wrapped inside the seed, but these seeds did not germinate, so young trees can not grow out of the. Scientists found that the endangered tree Carl Singh Ahluwalia reasons, not because their own genetic problems, but rather concerned with the extinction of the dodo. Because the seeds of this tree is very hard shell hidden in the fruit, the buds themselves can not be hatched, only the Dodo is its natural ally. Dodo most like to eat the seeds of this tree, but does not completely digest it, but to shell thinning, and then excreted through Zhefan toss the seeds to germinate and grow. Therefore, the Dodo and the tropical tree had each lost one, the other will not be able to survive. From the dodo to extinction of the endangered tree Carl Singh Ahluwalia, illustrates the interdependence between plants and animals and the important relationship of mutual influence, it is stated that the protection of plant and animal species to survive, for how important it is to maintain ecological balance ! While the dodo has been extinct, but was everywhere in the island of Mauritius can "meet" it, because the national emblem, coins, souvenirs, artwork, advertising and brand-name clubs, and can see its image. These are to remind people to love and protect endangered wildlife, so they do not repeat the tragedy of the dodo. 1599, the Dutch adventurer Curme Springs announced that Mauritius, the Netherlands grams of all, the Dutch replaced the Portuguese as the rulers there. In 1644, the arrival of the first _set_tlers declared the approach of Dodo bad luck, the colonists were not only killing for no reason, and bring a lot of this land without the animals, such as cats, pigs and rats, the Dodo Bird nests and eggs are subject to a greater threat. 1680, to see the human in less than 200 years, the dodo disappeared from the island of Mauritius. Reunion Island stupid white dove just stick to 1750, Luo Geli Rodriguez to stupidity Pigeon Island in 1800 is also extinct. A great pity that even the world, a complete specimen of a dodo failed to save, only a Dutch painter in 1599 to draw the "stupid pigeon map" for future generations to pay tribute. Even more surprising is that shortly after the extinction of the dodo, a survival of the local plants - a large tree growing cranial Lam declined and eventually extinct. It turned out that the seeds of this plant must go through the dodo's digestive tract to dissolve the seeds of the outer crust, and was excreted to the initiation Dodo. Dependence of the relationship between birds and trees destroyed by humans, killed the Dodo, it killed a large cranial Lam tree of life. Mauritius Dodo, extinct in 1680. Reunion white dodo, extinct 1750. Roger Rees to fool pigeon, extinct in 1800.
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Dodo's evolutionary position
Dodo's position in the bird family tree has finally been determined. A new study of genetics and the combination of geological evidence, revealing the evolutionary history of this famous bird, and follow their footsteps of their ancestors, starting from Southeast Asia through the Indian Ocean, arrived in the islands along the coast of Africa - people here find them, kill them away. While scholars doubt the dodo bird - a life in the island of Mauritius, obesity and not some kind of birds fly over the growth of pigeons, but it has been difficult to determine its position in the evolutionary tree, let alone understand The geographic origin of birds. As a result, Oxford University beth shapiro, alan cooper and others from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History of the dodo dna samples collected samples of the skin - is the bird gives inspiration for Lewis Carroll, led him in the story " Alice in Wonderland "is added to a dodo. The researchers also collected a large body and another extinct flightless bird of dna samples alum thrush - a bird from the western Indian Ocean near Mauritius, Rodrigues Island, in addition to 35 kinds of the existing house pigeons and pigeons in the dna samples. They analyzed the dna sequence, to map out an evolutionary tree of evolutionary relationships shows. Research in this field in Toulouse, France christophe thébaud University evolutionary ecologist, said: This work shows that to understand something about the situation of the last continental arrangement of biological knowledge to infer the history of the right is essential. thébaud ben warren, and his students say they have found that despite the island of Mauritius and Rodrigues Island, closer to Africa, but the other birds and plants on the island seems to have originated in Asia, and the vitriol that thrush is not a Dodo only those who travel across the ocean. While the dodo has been extinct, but was everywhere in the island of Mauritius can "meet" it, because the national emblem, coins, souvenirs, artwork, advertising and brand-name clubs, and can see its image. These are to remind people to love and protect endangered wildlife, so they do not repeat the tragedy of the dodo.
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Dodo
渡渡鸟
Dove head (Columbiformes, sometimes drawing as a solitary dove head〕 〔Raphiformes) lone pigeon Division (Raphidae) birds, scientific name Raphus cucullatus. Origin of Mauritius, 1681, all of extinction. Can not fly. The section contains three kinds, the other two is the Reunion Island (Reunion) The Reunion solitary pigeon (R · solitarius, 1746 年 extinction) and Rodrigues (Rodrigues) solitary pigeon Rodriguez (Pezophaps solitaria, about 1790, extinction). Dodo body than turkey, weighing about 23 kg (50 pounds). Blue-gray body feathers, a large head. Beak length 23 cm (9 inches), light black, light red sheath with formation of Gou Jian. Because the wing is small, it can not fly. Feet strong, yellow, feet high with a bunch of back-bending feathers. Reunion may be solitary pigeon dodo's albino. Rodriguez solitary pigeon light brown, smaller higher body, smaller head, mouth, without the thick short-Gou Jian, a bulge on the wing. Save now at Oxford University and the head and foot of a dodo, the British Museum holds only one foot, Copenhagen holds a head. Europe, America and Mauritius save a number of museums and how many complete skeletons. Lone pigeon bones were also preserved many. Dodo (Dodo, Mauritius Dodo) is a flightless bird, found only in the African island nation of Mauritius. Hypertrophy of the body is always to make it faltered, along with a big mouth, the way it seems Some ugly. Fortunately, the island without their natural enemies, so they comfortably built in the woods brooding nest, breed. Dodo is a huge bird, so that you may not believe it is the birds. Because it does not fly. It is the dove a Branch family. European sailors discovered the island of Mauritius in 1507 this bird. When they got talking about this strange bird can not fly, you can imagine it is hard to believe their story. Mauritius Island in the _set_tlement of Europeans and their top of the pigs soon found that the birds eat them very sweet. So there are many of the dodo been eaten. As of 1681, no longer living in the island found a dodo. Few of the Dodo in the 17th century was brought to the UK, but 200 years, no one saw the living dodo. This is the phrase "the same as the dodo disappeared" came from. Because they are completely extinct, but also for all known from the. A close relative of the Dodo As LewisCarroll created "Alice in Wonderland," a source of inspiration in the Dodo, dodo also enhance the human understanding of the evolutionary history of species. Dodo and other birds in the islands will not fly - Yu dove back in a few centuries ago became extinct, natural scientists should put them to where in the evolutionary tree is very confused. Through these two species of birds and other DNA analysis, confirmed that the Dodo and ignorance on the dove is the classification of sibling species, belonging to families dove dove-shaped head. According to BethShapiro and his colleagues concluded, with the Dodo and the foolish pigeon recent phylogenetic species Nike Ba dove, and its distribution in the Nike Ba Island and the surrounding areas of Southeast Asia, the place is the dodo, and Yu dove about 4260 years ago a branch of the region. The authors say, they eventually migrate to the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar in the Mascarene Islands. 17 centuries ago, had been living in Mauritius Dodo, and stupid dove in the 18th century living in Rodrigues. Shapiro study group of 37 pigeon extinct Passerine and carried out the types of genetic testing and found that the dodo and the stupid dove is the branch in about 2560 years ago, that in Mauritius and Rodrigues rose above sea level ago. Scientists believe that birds in their island eventually _set_tled in before the high ground may be used around the Mascarene Ridge (3000 years ago they have been exposed to the sea) as a "springboard." Species Category: Chordata door -> vertebrate subphylum -> -> Aves -> this subclass Bird -> -> this jaw Head -> dove-shaped head ->->-> dove Section -> -> ->
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The story of extinct dodo
The late 16th century, with rifles and hounds of the Europeans came to Mauritius. Not fly and run faster in the coming doom the dodo. Europeans came to the island, the dodo became their main source of food. From that point on, guns to shoot dogs, birds eggs, play, a lot of dodo was killed. Even the chicks and eggs can not be spared. the beginning, to the thousands of Europeans every day only to kill tens of thousands of the dodo, but due to excessive hunting, and soon the number of killed them less and less every day, only to hit a few times a day only the. In 1681, the last dodo was a brutal murder, and since then, the Earth never see the dodo, unless the specimens in the museum and the artist's picture in the room. Strangely, after the extinction of the Dodo, Mauritius and the Dodo is a specialty, like a big valuable trees --- trees are getting scarce cranial Lam, seems to be suffering infertility. Did the dodo is like cranial Lam Tai forest tree of life, in the Dodo passes through lush tree is always a large cranial Lam, seedlings thrive. to 80 years in the 20th century, Mauritius, only 13 large cranial Lam tree, this rare tree Seeing also disappeared from the earth. Rugby Tree Large cranial scientists anxious about the situation so that, save a large tree into a tight skull Lam topic. Scientists speculate through a variety of experiments and analysis, but a few years later, no progress in .1981, the U.S. Ecology Temple is also home to Mauritius to study this tree, this year happens to be the 300th anniversary of extinct dodo. Temple carefully measured a large cranial Lam tree rings and found that it happens to be 300 years old, that is , Dodo extinction date is also the sterilization of large trees when the cranial Lam. Temple through the meticulous found the remains of the dodo skull in a few large tree fruit Lam, the original Dodo like to eat the fruit of this tree. Finally inferred Temple, Tai Lam skull was crossing the fruit of the tree After crossing the birds eat the fruit is digested, the seeds also absorb outside hard shell, so to be able to germinate seeds excreted. Finally scientists to turkey to eat the fruit of a large cranial Lam tree to replace the Dodo Since then, this tree last survivor. Dodo tree with large cranial Lam each other, the birds to feed on fruit trees to the birds to take root, they are a loss for both sides, a prosperity. Dodo the West into the industrial society, the first in recorded history to be extinct animals. Dodo has been extinct since the West to spread the proverb, called "dead as Dodo," which meant that when a thing died away, it feels like the dodo was extinct, like sadness.
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Extinct dodo bring warning
渡渡鸟灭绝带来的警示
Near the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, a beautiful and rich volcanic island - Mauritius. 16th century, European _set_tlers _set_ foot on the dodo and the cards before the Bavarian Tree Island, the island is almost everywhere dense tropical forests. Today, these forests have been depleted, in which island-specific tree species card Westphalia about to become extinct. This is a tall tropical trees, tree height up to 100 feet around the tree 14 feet belong to embrace Coca Bavarian mountains are. The quality of hard dense trees, the island was once a large number of export quality timber resources. Hundreds of years ago, they found throughout the island. Now, they are few, and are centuries old trees. In 1982, the University of Wisconsin professor of zoology at Stan Leitan Istanbul, on the island made the card a few months Bavarian-depth study of the tree. He was surprised to find that, although this tree bear fruit every year, but not a seed germination, and this has been going on for centuries. He thumbed through the historical records, found that people have long noticed this strange phenomenon. 30 years of the 20th century, some local botanists fear card will be extinct tree Westphalia, who collected the seeds of this plant, seed treatment with a variety of methods to try to make them germinate. However, all efforts have failed. The botanist wrote in despair: "It seems that trees on the island remaining trees Westphalia after the death card, they would on Earth died out. Human watched this precious species go extinct, Jingbu know exactly why. "Professor Turnbull once thought of living off the island but has been extinct birds - dodo. Dodo bird species unique to the island, and the pigeons are close relatives, for large ground-living birds, about 1 m high and weighing up to 30 pounds, almost never fly. Many of the original dodo island, after the European sailors _set_ foot on the island, carried out wantonly on the killing, while the introduction of the island that do not have livestock, they destroyed the Dodo nests, devouring a bird eggs, so dramatic reduced. 1681, the island the last dodo was killed by one, since then, this precious bird species on earth disappeared. Professor Turnbull's hypothesis was confirmed: the card Westphalia tree nut germination depends on the dodo's stomach; extinct dodo, the card Westphalia tree can not reproduce because of the path leading to extinction. So they depend on each other, formed a "Damon and Pythias." Today, Mauritius has adopted scientific methods wear thin card Bavarian stone tree, and succeeded in cultivating a large number of seedlings. From 1600 to 1966, the Earth of 164 species of birds have disappeared. Interlocking nature of a missing link, what kind of chain will lead to disaster? In this regard, very ignorant man. Understand the fate of the dodo tree, connected with Carl Ahluwalia, just a coincidence. We do not know, because of human greed, nature, how many tragedies have played, how much tragedy is unfolding.
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Idioms on the dodo's
关于渡渡鸟的成语故事
as dead as a dodo Speaking of death, in Chinese eyes, the "death" is probably the ashes. However, as evidenced by Han Hanan Guo is the recurrence of ashes. What, then what is the real through the death of it? British answer is: Dodo (dodo). Dodo was a flightless island of Mauritius giant bird, larger than swans big, heavy forty to fifty pounds, the first large tail short, it seems to stay full of air, the Portuguese called? Do doudo, meaning "stupid." The eighteenth century must Benniao about the species, leaving only as dead as a dodo (Dodo died, and the same) the English idiom, meaning "through the dead" or "out of fashion", for example, : That hairstyle is as dead as a dodo now (no one that has long hair comb.) Finally, point out that: as dead as a dodo, and safe and sound, as is alliterative phrase. People say it fun for a wide spread naturally.
