The film is presented for the welfare of the world by the cheetah, the passenger pigeon and the dodo, which have become extinct. |
The early casualties of this phenomenon were mostly isolated populations like the dodo of Mauritius and the Steller's sea cow. |
First described by explorers around 1600, the dodo was extinct fewer than 80 years later. |
In fact, the upstairs bar was as dead as a dodo, but the downstairs bar, facing the diners, was even more convenient. |
One of her donations to the museum is reputed to be the only egg in existence of the extinct, flightless dodo bird. |
The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, flightless bird, the dodo. |