* Raphus cucullatus Dodo

As well as the tortoises and the Dodo, thirteen additional species of birds became extinct among there were extincts Réunion Flightless Ibis, Broad-billed Parrot, Red Rail, Rodrigues Rail, Rodrigues Solitaire and the related dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ), in Mauritius, could swallow fruits from ocotea species, as several contemporary sources state that the dodo used gizzard stones.

Until 1995, it was assumed to have been a relative of the Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ), it was thus classified as a member of the didine pigeons ( subfamily Raphinae ) and called the " Réunion Solitaire " ( Raphus solitarius ).

Baron Edmund de Sélys-Longchamps coined the name Raphus solitarius for these birds in 1848, as he believed the accounts referred to a species of Dodo.

Based on cladistic analysis of mtDNA cytochrome b and 12S rRNA sequences, the Nicobar Pigeon is sometimes called the closest living relative of the extinct didines ( Raphinae ), which include the famous Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ).

The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ).

The Dodo is a caricature of the author.

The Dodo, who in this adaptation of the book is named Uilleam and is portrayed by Michael Gough, bears a down of brilliant blue and is one of Alice's advisers, who also took first note of her identity as the true Alice.

The closest living relative of the Dodo is the Nicobar Pigeon.

It is presumed that the Dodo became flightless because of the ready availability of abundant food sources and a relative absence of predators on Mauritius.

Pigeons generally have very small clutches, and the Dodo is said to have laid a single egg.

The generic name of the latter is Didunculus (" little Dodo "), and it was called " Dodlet " by Richard Owen.

In The Last Dodo it is used to distract animals, and to liquefy and re-solidify tarmac.

The Dodo of Mauritius, shown here in a 1626 illustration by Roelant Savery, is an often-cited example of Holocene extinction | modern extinction.

According to writer Paul Dini, the Do-Do Bird is the father of Gogo Dodo, a character on the 1990s animated TV series Tiny Toon Adventures.

He is given a first name, Yoyo the Dodo.

This is where he first met Jeffrey Lohn who was playing electric violin with the N. Dodo Band.

All of her identity has been centered upon doing well academically ; she is unsure of what to make of her life once she leaves school, and the choices presented to her ( motherhood, as exemplified by the prolific child-bearer and vacuous Dodo Conway, or stereotypical female careers such as stenography ) do not appeal to her.

It has been noted that the Skimmer's design is almost exactly like the Dodo airplane in GTA III.

Lewis Carroll mocked the futility of the UK's caucuses in " A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale ", Chapter 3 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: when the " Caucus-race " of running in a circle stops, everyone is declared a winner by the Dodo and Alice is told to hand out prize s to all others, receiving her own thimble as her prize.

Many endemic Mascarene birds are derived from South Asian ancestors, including the Dodo, and it has been proposed that it is true for the parrots as well.

The supposed " White Dodo " of Réunion is now believed to have been an erroneous conjecture based on contemporary reports of the Réunion Sacred Ibis, combined with paintings by Pieter Withoos and Pieter Holsteyn from the 1600s of white Dodos that surfaced in the 19th century.

* 1591 – Joris Hoefnagel starts to work for Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and produces for him 90 oil-base paints, of which one is of the Dodo.

Thus, he is often the straight man for their zany antics ; when he asks the Dodo for help on getting the " monster " ( Alice ) out of his house, Dodo's ultimate solution is to burn the house down, to which the White Rabbit is greatly opposed.

Stanley Temple hypothesized that the Dodo, which became extinct in the 17th century, ate tambalacoque fruits, and only by passing through the digestive tract of the Dodo could the seeds germinate.

Amongst the 10 species that have become extinct since 1600 ( the conventional date for estimating modern extinctions ) are two of the most famous extinct species, the Dodo and the Passenger Pigeon.

These included the Dodo on Mauritius and the Solitaire on Rodrigues, both already extinct.

Many of the Mascarene birds evolved into flightless forms ; the most famous of which was the Dodo of Mauritius, and the Rodrigues Solitaire extinct flightless pigeons.

Genetically within pigeons and doves, it was most closely related to the also extinct Dodo of Mauritius ( the two forming the subfamily Raphinae ).

There also specimens of several extinct species housed in the museum, including the Liverpool Pigeon, the Great Auk ( and an egg ), the Falkland Islands Wolf, the South Island Piopio, the Lord Howe Swamphen, the Dodo, the Long-tailed Hopping Mouse, and the Thylacine.

The novel gives further scope to Maturin's role as both a secret agent ( in which he uses propaganda effectively to support the campaign ) and as a naturalist ( in which he is seen collecting relics of the extinct birds the Dodo and the Solitaire ).

Numerous bird species, including the famous Dodo of Mauritius, became extinct after human settlers arrived.

An illustration of the extinct Dodo by Frohawk

In 1917 he published Dodo-studiën: naar aanleiding van de vondst van een gevelsteen met dodo-beeld van 1561 te Vere, an article about the study of the extinct Dodo.

The order Columbiformes includes two families of birds: the Raphidae, to which the extinct Dodo and Rodrigues Solitaires belonged, and the Columbidae, which includes the very widespread and successful doves and pigeons.

The extinct Dodo and Rodrigues Solitaire comprised a family, Raphidae, which was endemic to Mauritius.

Some, such as the Dodo, are thought to have become extinct because of the pressure of both humans and introduced animals.

The first product of the brasseries, and by far now their most sold and widely known, is the blonde lager Dodo, named after the now extinct bird ( its official name is simply " Bourbon ").

* the Dodo, the giant flightless pigeon of Mauritius, Indian Ocean

The Dodo | flightless Dodo ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Dodo ; illus.

The bird was first scientifically named as a species of Dodo ( Didus solitarius, based on Leguat's description ) by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in the thirteenth edition of Systema Naturae.

* Dodo bird verdict, a phrase sometimes used when evaluating different techniques used in psychotherapy

* Dodo birds, a recurring fictional bird species in The Flintstones universe

Clara Pinto Correia ( 2003 ) Return of the crazy bird: the sad, strange tale of the Dodo.

The Dodo bird verdict is a controversial phenomenon in psychology which states that all psychotherapies, regardless of their specific components, produce equivalent outcomes.

Arguments have proposed that the specific meta-analysis the Dodo bird verdict is based on, ( Luborsky, Singer, Luborsky 1975 ), could possibly produce misleading results because of the type of studies combined in the comparison.

A startling 43 % of studies that support the Dodo bird verdict are not sufficiently sensitive to detect differences in therapies even if they did exist.

( 1997 ) comparative study, a work that supported the Dodo bird verdict, Crists-Christoph concluded that out of the 114 articles used in the study, 79 of them involve similar comparative tests.