🦤Dodo

Raphus cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

渡渡鳥（學名：Raphus cucullatus）又称毛里求斯愚鸠、愚鸠、孤鸽，是已灭绝的渡渡鸟属的唯一物种，属鸽形目鸠鸽科，仅分布于南印度洋马达加斯加岛东侧的模里西斯島上，是一种不会飞的鸟。罗德里格斯渡渡鸟是本属的姐妹群，亦已灭绝。曾有人认为有一只白色的渡渡鳥存在于留尼旺岛上，但之後被判定應為留尼旺孤鴿，且同樣滅絕。现在与本属亲缘关系最近的现生种为綠簑鳩（Caloenas nicobarica）。这种鸟在1505年被人类发现后，仅仅200年的时间裡，便由于人类的活动与捕杀，大量減少。在1660年代前後，彻底灭绝。它是人類歷史上第一個被記錄下來，因人類活動而絕種的生物，是除恐龙之外最著名的已灭绝动物之一。

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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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