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Long live the Dodo
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THE dodo was dead, there was no doubt about that. It also looked
pretty dumb, like an overgrown, deformed pigeon, with its farcically
fluffy coat and a feathery tail that could have been used as
headgear
for the Rio carnival. This was a Disneyfied dodo, goofy-eyed and
gullible, fit more for a toy shop than a museum.
But here it was cloaked in scholarship; Didus ineptus, the
epitome
of extinction. When I was younger I used to visit it periodically at
the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh's Chambers Street. To me,
it was even more intriguing than the crowd-pulling dinosaurs -
somehow their ...
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