🦤Dodo

Raphus cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Mauritiuksendodo eli drontti (Raphus cucullatus) on sukupuuttoon kuollut suurikokoinen ja lentokyvytön kyyhkylintu. Drontteja eli vain Mauritiuksen saarella Intian valtameressä, Madagaskarin itäpuolella. Ihminen hävitti lajin noin 170 vuodessa.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements

Conservation status

EXExtinct

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Key measurements

Body mass: not recorded
Body length: not recorded
Shoulder height: not recorded
Top speed: not recorded
Bite force: not recorded
Maximum lifespan: not recorded

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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.

Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Dodo

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Standing height

0.7 mstanding (reconstruction from subfossil remains)

Details ↓

"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

Not recorded for Dodo yet: body mass, body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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