The lower and upper beak or bill has a hooked point at both ends. The entire bill is large and very thick with a rough skin region of the upper bill. From the front of the cranium to the lower jaws consists of bare skin and beak. The feathers on the ends of the little wings and those on the end of the tail are the most distinctive of all of the feathers on the bird’s body, as well as being the longest and thickest. The tail is short with longer but curly tufts and fluffy feathers over it and hanging down slightly from it. The wings are very short and folded on the sides the rib cage. The feathers have a lot of texturing and they look ruffled, fluffy and soft. From the top of the head to the end of the short tail, it is covered in feathers and the body is plump or obese. The sculpting of this figure is just incredible, it is the most realistic replicas I have seen to date. This dodo bird is one of their greatest creations ever, bar none! When I found out that Safari was making a dodo replica as part of their great Wings of the World Collection, I had to get it immediately and the figure does not disappoint. The Dodo is one of my favorite theropod dinosaur decedents and I can’t help but think from time to time about how horrible the extinction of the dodo was. By as soon as the middle of the next century, the dodo was extinct, the species didn’t survive a single century since its discovery, a saddening historical tragedy. The dodo was hunted aggressively and without remorse, nests were ravaged, and the forests the birds inhabited were felled. This fearlessness became detrimental when human settlers arrived on the island in the fifteenth century, bringing with them many kinds of carnivorous animals. It was a herbivore and with no natural predators, had no knowledge of danger on its lonely island. At three-feet tall and weighing almost fifty pounds, the dodo was one of the largest birds of its kind. The Family Columbidae also includes the closest relatives of the dodo, modern pigeons & doves. This ancient Columbiform bird was a flightless species endemic to the small island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Africa near Madagascar, and occupied the island since at least the Holocene era. The demise of the dodo bird is probably the most famous extinction event in recent history.
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