The Enigmatic Dodo Bird
mammoth
>>4792168you fucking idiot that’s the common instagram android
>>4792205Somehow looks exactly like Ray Romano
>>4792205that’s just an indian man you racist
>>4792168Sir that is a dove. Put it down.
dinosaur
>>4792510>*in a droll, Italian-American accent* “I’m not fat, it’s all this fur. Makes me look… poofy.”
>>4792168huh, that's funny, it looks just like a juvenile rock dove to me.
>>4792973Yeah but aren’t dodos just a kind of flightless pigeon? I’m sure they looked basically exactly like OP.
>>4792977you're right Anon, dodos and urban pigeons are all members of the family Columbidae. Such a shame they don't still exist, I bet they would make good companion animals.
>One of the original names for the dodo was the Dutch "Walghvoghel", first used in the journal of Dutch Vice Admiral Wybrand van Warwijck, who visited Mauritius during the Second Dutch Expedition to Indonesia in 1598. Walghe means "tasteless", "insipid", or "sickly", and voghel means "bird". The name was translated by Jakob Friedlib into German as Walchstök or Walchvögel. The original Dutch report titled Waarachtige Beschryving was lost, but the English translation survived:>>On their left hand was a little island which they named Heemskirk Island, and the bay it selve they called Warwick Bay... Here they taried 12. daies to refresh themselues, finding in this place great quantity of foules twice as bigge as swans, which they call Walghstocks or Wallowbirdes being very good meat. But finding an abundance of pigeons & popinnayes [parrots], they disdained any more to eat those great foules calling them Wallowbirds, that is to say lothsome or fulsome birdes.
I want them back bros :(
>>4792991The worst part is with enough effort we could totally get thylacines or mammoths back but with dodos they went completely scorched earth so there’s not even a trace of them left besides drawings.
>>4792991Ehhh we have enough large flightless birds around let them rest in peace
>>4793025Turkeys are literally superior dodos in every way. Even with coyotes and coywolve populations in my region skyrocketing, they’re fucking everywhere, you still always have to stop in the road for crossing swarms of turkeys. But dodos immediately died because weasels suddenly exist?Kneel.
temnospondyl
>>4792168>>4792205>>4792968>>4793066>thread with actual photographs of long-extinct animalsneat
>>4792982The character Thursday Next has a v1.2 pet dodo named Pickwick but since the sequencing technology wasn't perfected until v1.7, Pickwick lacks wings altogether. She laid an egg which hatched into a son, Alan, who currently lives with Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
>>4793027Based. Plus they actually taste good
wooly rhino
>>4793025No comment prefixed with ehh or meh is ever worth reading. Further input is not necessary.
>>4793205No one cares about your autistic pet peeves seethe I guess queer
>>4792991I guarantee that if they got brought back people would immediately hate or stop caring at all about them because in the end they are in reality, just extra large ground pigeons.
>>4793347Basically. The ‘fascination’ with them really only exists because they’re extinct.
>>4793027I thought dodos died because they were the alpha predators of their island and didn't thus fear anything, so human sailors could just walk up to them and quickly kill them. I heard they also made a cry to call for help when hurt, which drew in other dodos, who also then got killed.
>>4792999>not even a trace leftWe've got some sub-fossil bones and a head. That's it.
>>4793347extra large ground pigeons are really cool though
>>4792205>elephants>hairychinese fake
Archaeopteryx
Mosasaur
Squalodon
>>4793533Dodos didn’t look that cool doebeitever
moeritherium
Homo neanderthalensis
>>4793931That’s a cro-magnon man
>>4793533
>>4793931no one post a pic of a homo habilus
>>4793973very cool. the little white dove looks so impressed.
>>4793931a jew?
>>4793548this one is a bit of a stretch I don’t think this is what a mosasaur looked like at all but the squalodon, wooly rhino and allosaurus foot gave me chills unironically
Who is the time traveler that took these?
radiodont
>>4792168I saw a bird I didn't recognize in the park the other day, looked kind of like this. Are there Dodos in maryland?
>>4798128It would have to be. All the others diddid and dodo nothing these days.
>>4798129Just. Shut up already. Please.
>>4798110>>4798129>>4798130Kek
>>4792168
>>4792205>BLOODY BASTARD DO NOT REDEEM THE PEANUTS
The fearsome pachycephalos
Velociraptor
>>4801585WRONG! That`s a man!
