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Dodo

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to Mauritius, an island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest relative was the also-extinct and flightless Rodrigues solitaire. The two formed the subtribe Raphina, a clade of extinct flightless birds that are a part of the group that includes pigeons and…

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The white dodo

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Dodo

Nodes372
Edges371
Triples412
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005376
Components1

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related to Subfossil specimens · 38
Dodo → Alfred Newton, At, British Museum, Clark, Clark's, Edwards's Dodo, George Clark, Harry Pasley Higginson, He, Higginson, In, Leeds, Liverpool, Mahébourg, Mare, Mauritian Bishop Vincent Ryan, Mauritius, Melville's, Memoir, Most
related to 17th-century specimens · 32
Dodo → Apart, Ashmolean Museum, Britain, British, British Museum, Carolus Clusius, Copenhagen Zoological Museum, Dutch, Emanuel Altham, Europe, Hamon L'Estrange, In, It, Its, London, National Museum, Natural History, OUM, Oxford, Oxford University Museum
related to Evolution · 25
Dodo → American, Based, Beth Shapiro, Caloenas, Columbidae, Comparison, Didunculus, DNA, Goura, Gourinae, In, Jolyon, New Guinea, Nicobar, Otidiphaps, Oxford, Parish, Rodrigues, Samoa, Shapiro
related to Etymology · 24
Dodo → Amsterdam, Another, Dronte, Dutch, Dutch Vice, English, Gelderland, German, Indonesia, Jakob Friedlib, Kermesse, Mauritius, One, Portuguese, Second Dutch Expedition, The, This, Waarachtige Beschryving, Walchstök, Walchvögel
related to Relationship with humans · 24
Dodo → An, Arab, Bruin-Vis, Cerne, Dutch, Dutch East India Company, Hugh Strickland's, Indonesia, Island, Jacob, Mascarene, Maurice, Mauritius, Middle Ages, Nassau, Neck, No, Portuguese, Second Dutch Expedition, Since
related to Taxonomy · 23
Dodo → After, Alexander Gordon Melville, Danish, Denmark, Depictions, English, Hugh Edwin Strickland, In, Its Kindred, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, Like, Melville, Natural History Museum, Other, Oxford University Museum, Pezophaps, Pigeons, Rodrigues, Strickland, The
related to Ecological role · 22
Dodo → Anodorhynchus, Anthony Cheke, Carlos Yamashita, Carpenter, Cylindraspis, He, Heinen, In, Joanna, Julia, Mascarene, Mauritius, Others, Rodrigues, South American, Stanley Temple, Temple, Temple's, The, The Brazilian
related to Dodos transported abroad · 20
Dodo → Adriaen, Amsterdam, Based, East, Emmanuel Altham, England, Europe, European, Hamon L'Estrange's, In, Julian Hume, London, Mansur, Mauritius, Peter Mundy, Savery's Edwards's Dodo, Surat, The, Two, Venne
related to The white dodo · 19
Dodo → Baron Edmond, Chief Officer, Crocker Art Gallery, Dod-eersen, Oudemans, Pieter Holsteyn, Pieter Withoos, Raphus, Rodrigues, Réunion, Savery's, Sieur Dubois, Some, Sporadic, Sélys Longchamps, Tatton, The, When, Willem Ysbrandtszoon Bontekoe
related to Contemporary depictions · 18
Dodo → Apart, Dutch, Edwards's Dodo, European, Gelderland, George Edwards, It, Joris Joostensz Laerle, London, Mauritian, Mauritius, Natural History Museum, Roelant Savery, Since, The, The Dutch, They, While

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mauritius pigeons dodos remains solitaire also found birds bird used species bones may rodrigues many specimen beak museum first since

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dodois aNicobar pigeon0.90text
Dodois asymbol of the Brasseries de Bourbon0.90text
Anthonie Cornelis Oudemansinstance ofDifferences in the depictions led ornithologists0.80text
Masauji Hachisuka to speculate about sexual dimorphisminstance ofDifferences in the depictions led ornithologists0.80text
ontogenic traitsinstance ofDifferences in the depictions led ornithologists0.80text
seasonal variationinstance ofDifferences in the depictions led ornithologists0.80text
and even the existence of different speciesinstance ofDifferences in the depictions led ornithologists0.80text
but these theories are not accepted todayinstance ofDifferences in the depictions led ornithologists0.80text
markings of the beakinstance ofBecause details0.80text
the form of the tail feathersinstance ofBecause details0.80text
and colouration vary from account to accountinstance ofBecause details0.80text
it is impossible to determine the exact morphology of these featuresinstance ofBecause details0.80text

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