Posted on 08/10/2005 6:56:54 PM PDT by dila813
Lots of FReeper IBW...
**My Eyes** D@MN!....That's an real ugly one.
If they bred these endangered species for food they wouldn't go extinct.
I'll second that!
They're GONE, man -- dodos were exclusive to a small, isolated island, and they have not been seen for more than three hundred years. Even the models of dodos in museums aren't real -- they use dyed feathers, plaster, skeletons, and accounts by sailors to come up with what they probably looked like.
We certainly have not explored all of the planet, and will most likely continue to find supposedly lost species of some kind or other, but a little bitty island, such as Mauritius is, is pretty easy to scour for fifty-pound flightless pigeons that nest on the beach -- it seems quite unusual that, if dodos were not extinct, that none have turned up at some point in the last three hundred+ years. While I will readily admit that sometimes events happen that can only be described as miraculous, at this point, it looks like the only way anyone's ever going to see a live dodo is if some scientist manages to clone one.
... Or maybe you were joking. I dunno - I'm really, really bad at picking up on that in text form. Sorry!
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