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As far as is known, the Portuguese never mentioned the bird. Nevertheless, some sources still state that the word dodo derives from the Portuguese word doudo (currently doido), meaning "fool" or "crazy". It has also been suggested that dodo was an onomatopoeic approximation of the bird's call, a two-note pigeon-like sound resembling "doo-doo". [33]
They are not particularly dangerous, but it seems kinda obvious that if left to their own devices, the Triscuit-cracker-pooping critters would have gone the way of the dodo a long time ago ...
With their incredible speed, size, sharp talons, and beaks, birds of prey are the most dangerous predators in North American skies. The 8 birds examined in today’s video from A-Z-Animals are not ...
About 129 species of birds have become extinct since 1500, [1] and the rate of extinction seems to be increasing. [2] The situation is exemplified by Hawaii, where 30% of all known recently extinct bird taxa originally lived. [3]
The most famous example is the dodo, which owed its extinction in large part to a lack of fear of humans, and many species of penguin (which, although wary of sea predators, have no real land predators and therefore are very bold and curious towards humans).
Image credits: Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre After this “new Dodo, the de-extinct Dodo is able to replace the Dodo in the ecosystem where it lived, and perform all of the ecosystem services ...
The first research done on toxic birds was published in 1992 by Dumbacher et al., [4] which found traces of the neurotoxin homobatrachotoxin, a steroid alkaloid with the ability to polarize Na+ channels, in the feathers and body tissue of many species of New Guinea passerine birds of the genus Pitohui and Ifrita. [5]
The CIA is funding a mission to reincarnate the long-extinct dodo bird. Here's how it will work—and why the mission matters.