🦤Dodo
The dodo is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to Mauritius, an island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest relative was the also-extinct and flightless Rodrigues solitaire. The two formed the subtribe Raphina, a clade of extinct flightless birds that are a part of the group that includes pigeons and doves. The closest living relative of the dodo is the Nicobar pigeon. A white dodo was once thought to have existed on the nearby island of Réunion, but it is now believed that this assumption was merely confusion based on the also-extinct Réunion ibis and paintings of white dodos.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
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This animal is extinct
Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List, 2024. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.
Everything we know about the Dodo
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Standing height0.7 mstanding (reconstruction from subfossil remains)Details ↓Hide ↑
"They likely stood about 70 centimetres tall and probably weighed around 12 kilogrammes." Museum page reflecting revised skeletal reconstructions (leaner, more upright than classic depictions). Older accounts say up to 1 m; Wikipedia's 62.6-75 cm traces to Parish 2013 and Hume 2017 (books, not independently verified here).
Source: Natural History Museum, London: "The dodo bird: the real facts about this icon of extinction", https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-dodo-bird-the-real-facts-about-this-icon-of-extinction.html · see citation
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Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderColumbiformes
- ›familyColumbidae
- ›genusRaphus
- ›speciesRaphus cucullatus
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPigeons & doves · Columbiformes
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPigeons & doves · Columbiformes
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