East London museum has the original Coelacanth and the only
known Dodo egg in the world and King Williams Town boasts «Huberta» the hippo, as well as magnificent relics of the past in our beautiful country.
In contrast, all other
known dodo skeletons are incomplete and typically made up from the bones of many different individuals.
https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/repost-the-dodo-is-dead-long-live-the-dodo/ - how we're only just getting to
know the dodo (sorry that got cut off!)
Not exact matches
My invisible purple
dodo bird is praying that you
know the difference between a period and a comma.
(
Dodos which, incidentally, are now extinct in case you did not
know that either, I'm sure would have been completely offended by my reference to them in comparing your intelligence).
Dodo, we
know can't and ur mother couldn't and ur daughter won't, based on ur parenting, but many women can obstain!
the highly degreed
dodo knows.
I
know I was one of the people calling for his signing and therefore I eat humble pie and apologize because I made a
dodo there.
From the famed
Dodo, through the lesser
known Guam Flycatcher, to the near - extinct Albatross, the exhibition combines beauty with more hard - hitting images that really bring home the devastation wrecked on these fragile creatures, often as a direct result of human behaviour.
The
dodo (Raphus cucullatus), an extinct, giant flightless pigeon once endemic to the island of Mauritius, may arguably be the most widely
known animal species to have gone extinct in human history.
The Thirioux skeleton housed in the Mauritius Institute represents the only
known complete
dodo skeleton, and the only one comprising the bones of a single individual.
The fossil discoveries made by barber and amateur naturalist Etienne Thirioux between 1899 and 1910 include some of the best
dodo remains existing today, including the only complete skeleton
known from a single bird (housed in the Natural History Museum in Port Louis, Mauritius), and another largely complete skeleton (housed in the Durban Natural Science Museum in South Africa).
The
dodo represents one of the best -
known examples of extinction caused by humans, yet we
know surprisingly little about this flightless pigeon from a scientific perspective.
Anyone that has watched my TEDx DeExtinction talk on the Passenger Pigeon
knows that the
Dodo bird is the bird that started my adolescent passion for de-extinction.
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Things pick up in the third episode and there are
dodos in the fourth, but it's not enough,
no, not nearly enough.
Traditional cable is going the way of the
dodo for real now, which means consumers
no longer have to put up with the old way of doing television subscriptions (I bet there isn't a single person reading this who hasn't had to pay for an entire tier of cable just to bump your subscription up a notch so you can get a single other channel that of course is pretty much the main one you care about).
That argument has finally gone the way of the
dodo because there are too many of us out there in the trenches who
know just how wrong that argument is and we've been letting others
know.
«I
knew, it's time,» Phillips Told the
Dodo.
«The concept of having five adoptable, well cared for Lhasas sounded fine,» Roberts, whose group helps people who can
no longer care for their animals due to illness or hardship, told The
Dodo.
«She is so loving that she deserves to
know what it's like to be loved back,» Karen Hirsch, a spokesperson for LifeLine Animal Project, tells The
Dodo.
Christian Wolters, deputy general manager of Intrepid Travel, told The
Dodo that the decision has had enthusiastic support and as a result, «2,500 people per year
no longer participate in elephant rides.»
Funky
DoDo Backpackers is the only well -
known hostel / guest house in Hopkins.
The island is
known for being the one - time home of that most famous of extinct animals, the poor old
dodo, and while there's no hope for the flightless feathered one, Mauritius is home to a wealth of tropical wildlife, with efforts being made to protect and preserve local biodiversity.
(The
dodo bird is one of the animals that has become extinct in this wave, also
known as the Holocene.)
The show includes works by established figures Joseph Beuys, Mary Corse, Eric Fischl, Anselm Kiefer, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Ai Weiwei, Jane and Louise Wilson, and David Wojnarowicz alongside works by others who deserve to be better
known, such as Naoya Hatakeyama,
Dodo Jin Ming, Dora Longo Bahia, and Serban Savu.
You
know, I wonder if the denialists on this thread such as Matt,
Dodo or Steve Reynolds would care to comment on the following topic (which actually relate to the original topic of the post):
Consider just one example: the hundreds of thousands of rare birds and endangered bats slaughtered in the US every year by the wind farms that Hillary Clinton applauds (and will
no doubt go on subsidising) and that Donald Trump loathes (and will
no doubt starve of subsidies and cause to become as extinct as the
Dodo).
Dodo has made a strategic business decision to
no longer offer these products, focusing instead on our core offering of telecommunication services, along with power and gas.
Instinctively I tell them that this went the way of the
Dodo bird, and want to
know who gave them this advice.