5 Mysteries of the Dodo Finally Solved - Appearance, Name, Extinction, Taxonomy, White Dodo

You know despite the white dodo not being a real species, I can bet the artistic representations probably existed at one point as a living animal. It’d be mainly dodos with leucism, which is partial pigment loss compared to albinism which is total pigment loss. It reminds me of seeing leucistic penguins. Fantastic video!

Truth is the birds were never "dumb", they just didnt fear humans since they had never seen any before.

It breaks my heart that it took such a relatively tiny amount of human contact to destroy so many species.

It is really such a shame that the Mascarenes were pillaged by settlers, there were so many unique species that I wish we could've seen

Ever since I was a kid, I was always sad that the Dodo was gone. I always thought it looked gentle and cute. Great video, thank you!

The so called "Arab sailor map of 975" shown in the video 2:06 is the ––  Cantino planisphere or Cantino world map = a manuscript Portuguese world map preserved at the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, Italy. It is named after Alberto Cantino, an agent for the Duke of Ferrara, who successfully smuggled it from Portugal to Italy in 1502. It measures 220 x 105 cmactuality the Cantino planisphere (1502), Biblioteca Estense, Modena, Italy "dina aRobi" or "dina Arobii" translates to "Deserted Island" not "desert island" P.S (added through editing) THANK you for the video! also, thank you for reading my comment. I mean well. Best regards

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One of the extinct species that shouldn’t be extinct

This was the coolest video about a Dodo I've seen. I'm a professional artist, so I LOVE that a random illuminated manuscript page gives us a depiction of a Dodo more accurate than the scientists

i hate how the dodos extinction is due to the fault of humans, yet we twisted history to pretend that they were the foolish ones, unable to adapt.

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The dodo always makes me think of the song Deuteronomy 2:10 by The Mountain Goats, which describes multiple extinct animals, including the dodo: “Laze by the shoreline while the sailors disembark Scratch out a place to sit and rest down in the dark Smell something burning downwind just a little ways They set up camp and sing and sweat for days I have no fear of anyone I’m dumb and wild and free I am a flightless bird And there will be no more after me.”

My local museum has a mummified dodos head, the museum collection was started by Barron Rothschild, it’s been re named now to the Tring museum.

This was probably the best dodo video I've seen so far, you did a very good job. On the last part, while we may probably be able to bring them back, I wonder if we should. The world has changed so much in the meantime, maybe it is best to leave the dodo as as a memento while we focus on preserving the species we still have today before it is too late.

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I did not know dodos were pigeons! Super cool video!

Great video, thank you for posting this, I never heard of the “white dodo bird “.

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