Dodo bird biography

The gluttered the extinct birds Dodo were fast and strong, and not chubby and clumsy, as previously thought. On Friday, August 16, reports The Times, with reference to the study. The team of scientists studied literature about this form of birds over the years, visited the Museums of Great Britain and measured samples of animal remains, including the only preserved soft fabric stored in the Museum of the Natural History of Oxford University.

According to the publication, new information about the anatomical structure of the bird suggests that it was quick and could develop speeds of up to 48 km per hour. Dodo almost certainly was a very active and fast animal, ”the newspaper quoted by Dr. Neil Gostling from Southampton University as saying. According to him, this species of birds "was doomed to extinction." This happened due to the fact that Dodo could not survive due to the presence of rats, cats and other invasive animals that the Europeans brought with them.

It is clarified that the birds were perfectly adapted to the environment, but where they lived, there were no predatory mammals. Business refuses to trade parrots and iguans due to the lack of uniform rules for their sale, which leads to fines by regulatory authorities in the year on the island of Mauritius, scientists found a well-preserved part of the skeleton of the Dront, extinct from the historical measurement of the ever-recently non-letters.

Under the name Dodo, she is well known to everyone who read Lewis Carroll. Until then, the scientific community did not have the remains of a bird, in the disappearance of which a person was to blame. Julian Hugum from the London Museum of Natural History called this find extremely important - the only stuffed Dodo died in a fire in the Oxford Museum. As noted, it is possible that fragments of DNA of the Dronts will be found in the bones.

Dront is a large bird up to 1 m high and a weight of up to 25 kg, related to the Golubny family and, according to some reports, to the family of crane -like, lived in the Masqueares - Mavrikia, Rodriguez - completely died out in the XVIII century with the appearance of Europeans on these islands - first Portuguese, and then the Dutch. Not only did her meat be delicious and the hunting for the drone became the source of replenishment of ship reserves, rats, pigs, cats and dogs were brought to the islands, which eating eggs of poultry with pleasure.

The helpless in the full sense of the word for hunting for a drant needed to simply approach him and hit the head on the head, which had not had before natural enemies, the drant was gullible as a child. By the way, that is why the sailors appropriated the name “Dodo” to him - from the Dutch “stupid”.