Dodo
Posted December 22nd, 2007 by Anonymous
The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) was a flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Related to pigeons and doves, it stood about a meter (three feet) tall, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
The dodo has been extinct since the mid-to-late 17th century. It is commonly used as the archetype of an extinct species because its extinction occurred during recorded human history, and was directly attributable to human activity. The adjective phrase "as dead as a dodo" means undoubtedly and unquestionably dead. The verb phrase "to go the way of the dodo" means to become extinct or obsolete, to fall out of common usage or practice, or to become a thing of the past.
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Journalists are today handing in their rumpled Gannex macintoshes, removing the press cards from their battered trilbies and sloping off to the nearest pub for eleven or twelve "quick ones" (plus chasers) in memory of News, which has succumbed to a tidal wave of gossip, sports stories and infotainment after a long illness. As A Dodo reports...
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Encyclopedia article explains how they all died, and use in popular culture.
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