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5 unusual facts about Dodo


DoDo, The Kid from Outer Space

An episode of DoDo, The Kid from Outer Space was shown as part of the Canadian comedy television series This Movie Sucks! in between its showing of the film The Manster.

Dodonuts

Later, Graeme finds a Dodo (the last one in existence) in a pet shop, and brings it home to Bill, who then has to keep the bird safe from the other two.

John Wolley

John Wolley (13 May 1823 – 20 November 1859) was an English naturalist best known for his large collection of bird eggs and studies on the Dodo and Great Auk.

Ustad Mansur

He was the earliest artist to depict the Dodo in colour, apart from being the first to illustrate the Siberian Crane.

The most significant paintings, in terms of zoology, are those of the Siberian Crane and the Dodo.


Alessandro Carabelli

One of Italy’s leading jazz pianists, over the course of his career he has performed and recorded with some of the most important musicians such as: Bob Mover, Lee Konitz, John Arnold, Gary Windo, Franco Ambrosetti, Franco Cerri, Stefano Bagnoli, Enzo Scoppa, Dodo Goja, Giulio Visibelli, Paolo Pelegatti, Gianni Basso, Fabio Jeger, Tony Arco, Marco Ratti among them.

Cathy Silvers

She also provided the voice of Marie Dodo, Big Bird's adoptive sister, in Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird.

Dodo and the Dodos

The lead singer, Dodo Gad, also recorded the football (soccer) song "Re-Sepp-Ten" for the 1986 FIFA World Cup; with Steen Christiansen as producer and studio musician, Jens Rud as studio technician, and Anders Valbro.

Dodo Bin Khafef Soomro III

The Khaljis now not only wanted to replace Dodo by Chanesar; they also wanted Bhagi, Bhungar Rao's daughter by a third (regular) wife, for Sultan Alauddin.

Dodo Chaplet

Dodo also appears in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Bunker Soldiers, four short stories in the Virgin Decalog and BBC Short Trips, and the Big Finish Productions audio dramas Mother Russia, Tales from the Vault, and Return of the Rocket Men.

Dodo Club

The Dodo Club is so named because the logo of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a Dodo, chosen by the founder Gerald Durrell as a reminder of man's wanton environmental destruction.

Dodo NKishi

Following his move to England, in 1986, Dodo soon began working with a variety of bands, musicians and producers, as well as engaging in a brief stint in the world of acting, participating in Ray Shell’s musical “Street Angels”.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds

Nobita and his friends are further supported by many of their friends who had been helped by them in the past, including Hoi and his family, Moa and Dodo, and the now-adult humanoid plant Kibo, who revives Doraemon with his green laser.

Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

1997 David Quammen for The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

Jan Savery

It is widely believed that Lewis Carroll (who was also an Oxford mathematician) was inspired by Savery's image of the dodo hanging at Oxford to include the creature as a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Hans Savery is best known for his 1651 depiction of the dodo now held by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Raphinae

In 1842, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt proposed they were ground doves, based on studies of a Dodo skull he had rediscovered in the royal Danish collection of Copenhagen.

Something Rotten

Her mother, whose main functions appear to be to make tea and to provide Battenburg cake, has some curious house guests: Emma Hamilton, Otto von Bismarck, and a family of dodos.

Wang Xiuchu

Wang's most significant accomplishment is his writing of the "Yangzhou shiri ji" (Account of Ten Days of Yangzhou) an account that details his survival of the notorious Massacre of Yangzhou that was perpetrated by the Manchu prince Dodo.


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