🦤Dodo

Raphus cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Додо, дронт маврикійський (Raphus cucullatus) — нелітаючий вимерлий птах родини голубоподібних, що був поширений на острові Маврикій. Найближчим родичем був дронт-самітник (Pezophaps solitaria), який також вимер. Цей птах мав близько метра завдовжки та важив близько 20 кг. Вимирання маврикійського дронта вперше сформувало думку, що людина може викликати вимирання тварин.

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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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