Dodo bird is a big bird berhabitat on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean that could not fly and become extinct.

Before certainly extinct, the bird is covered with many myths, until finally Harry Higginson and George Clark found the Dodo bird fossil in 1865.

Facts about the Dodo Bird

»The Latin name first given by Carl Linnaeus in these birds is 'Didius ineptus' which means 'dodo incompetent (can not fly)'.

However, this time the scientists prefer to call it 'Raphus cucullatus'.

»The main Predator is the Dodo bird Dutch sailors (and animals brought with them) who stopped by on his way to the Indonesian archipelago.

Dodo hunted by sailors and the first settlers on the island. Although meat Dodo described textured hard, it did not stop the explorers prey on this bird for food.

Dutch sailors nicknamed Dodo as 'valghvogel' which translates to 'disgusting bird' because of the bad taste of the meat.

»Character Dodo in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland inspired by Dodo skeleton stored in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Contrary to popular myth associated with this bird, author Alice, Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Dodgson), described this bird as being wise.

Some people believe that the character of the Dodo in Alice books is a metaphor for the writer's own.

»After going through a DNA test of the remaining soft tissue, proved that the dodo is a close relative of the Nicobar pigeon.

Interestingly enough, when Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, a zoologist, put forward the theory that Dodo is a kind of pigeon land, he got a lot of criticism from his colleagues.

»Some of the Dodo bird life ever sent to Europe to be displayed to the public.

Live specimens used as a model because at that time the camera has not been found.

»Tree tambalacoque or dodo tree (Sideroxylon grandiflorum) has been erroneously attributed to the extinction of this bird.

Previously believed that the seeds of this tree have to pass through the digestive tract Dodo in order to germinate.