Thread 5022819

i miss them so much bros...

they should have went extinct sooner

>>5022820
STOP BEING MEAN TO DODOS NOWWWWW!!!!!!!

Don't worry, colossal bioscience is working on lying about bringing those back too

>>5022854
why don't they focus on bringing back them since we actually have all their genetic material (or so I've been told)

>>5022854
Pigeon chicks already look like dodos, just preserve enough neoteny traits and make it bigger/flightless to pass it off as one. It'd be more convincing than the "dire wolves."

>literally just a more colorful dodo
>nobody cares because it's not extinct

>>5023422
Why is he Chad posing?

>>5023424
he's not as chunky and they're actually pretty popular as far as obscure endemic birds are concerned

>>5022819 (OP)
You weren't alive yet, stop lying.

>>5022819 (OP)
I wonder what they tasted like, probably had red meat like a duck.

>>5023426
He just needs a little t-shirt that says OUCH

>>5022819 (OP)
You think there'd be as cuddly and attention seeking a most modern pigeons?

>>5023519
according to sailors they tasted like garbage

>>5023522
imagine

>>5023528
That's what I read too but sailors at that time based their taste on what they were denied (=good) and what they were fed (=bad).

>>5022819 (OP)
Poor guys...all eaten to extinction.

>>5023424
Not true, takahe also have sharp spurs concealed in their wings which they use to fight and climb, so they're cooler than dodos.

>>5023426
he's coping

>>5023522

Probably not.

Unlike modern pigeons, which are monogamous, dodos were polygamous and used their giant beaks of them to fight one another

>>5025238

Dodos used their beaks to fight

>>5025245
So do takahe, they just have more methods of attacking than dodos.

>>5025238
if we let these motherfuckers evolve again, we're cooked

>>5022942
Thylacines are still sighted somewhat regularly (as in once every few years), it's just the Australian government wants them extinct so they can strip mine Tasmania.

>>5026226
I genuinely think these ones are wrongly portrayed, or outright imaginary. Those long straight claws on weak arms are 0% practical.

>>5026304
they were supposed to have been herbivores, so they wouldn't have need particularly strong arms. I don't know why they would've evolved to have those types of claws, though.

>>5026304
Yea you're right, they looked more like this most likely.

>>5022819 (OP)
The dodo? more like...the doodoo heheheheh

>>5022819 (OP)
Their extinction made me despise pigs. Fuck the vegantards with them saying "b-but a heccin piggy is smarter than ur dog!" fuck you I'd slaughter every single one of those fuckers into mincemeat. Abhorrent invasive animal that caused extinctions and declines of many species.

>>5027882
This but cats

>>5027882
maybe angry birds was on to something when they made the fightless birds' arch enemies pigs.

>>5023424
The thing with Dodos was their lack of fear, we could have dodo pets now if they haven't kill them all.

>>5028018
literally just get a chicken coop

>>5028022
They were bigger than chickens

>>5028018
It's depressing when you go and look back on history and find many such cases of animals that are too trusting of humans being mistreated or taken advantage of without a second thought.

>>5028029
Turkey then

>>5022819 (OP)
I probably wouldn't be too impressed by them if they were still alive

>>5028018
>an animal the size of a medium dog that shits constantly
nice pet you get there

>>5028048
Turkeys are very aggressive since, unlike Dodos, they get preyed upon.
https://youtu.be/L0piF3n9hRI?si=88mBlvFjVo0TZxQ8

>>5023528
>>5023793
The Dutch sailors who discovered them called them "walgvogel" which literally translates to "wallow fowl" or "disgusting bird".

But eat them to death they did. Imagine getting snacked into extinction and the cunts didn't even enjoy eating you.

>>5028178
Hunting had its impact, but that paled against the predation and nest destruction by introduced pigs & rats, and the cutting down & destruction of their forest habitat.

It was those last two factors that really sounded the death-knell for the Dodo.

>>5027882
A moment of silence for all the dodos and their eggs mercilessly eaten by feral cats, pigs, rats and sailors.

>>5022819 (OP)
This kind of history always get me. It's just sad.

These animals practically lived on a peaceful remote habitat safe from predation for god knows how long just living their lives all until a bunch of assholes and their invasive animals came to their home and wiped out their whole race and ecosystem without a care in the world. It really was a straight up alien invasion for those birds and other native creatures when you look at it that way. And the same shit almost repeated again in the Galapagos islands when tortoises, marine iguanas, penguins, ect almost all became extinct until people finally decided to clean up their shit

>>5026228
Elvis is still sighted somewhat regularly (as in once every few years), it's just the American government wants him extinct so they can strip mine Graceland.

>>5023424
doesn't look like a dodo to me

>>5029174
I genuinely hope we never discover any more remote ecosystems on earth in the future. It always ends up terribly for the native life.

>>5022819 (OP)
Genuinely fucked up that this is the only genuine remains of a dodo beyond bones.

>>5031236
Such a grim and depressing image.

>>5031236
If it is genuine, and still has viable DNA, then it is also their best chance at a return.

And a real return, not the Dire Wolf presumed simulation.

>>5031274
We can barely clone extant mammals, cloning extinct birds is out of the realm of possibility for a long time. Not to mention how the Nicobar pigeon is its closest relative and is way smaller and acts nothing like a dodo.

>>5031443
>acts nothing like a dodo
How would you know?

>>5031443
Still the best chance at a return. Which is why that specimen must be safeguarded and preserved as best we can, with samples secured and maintained at multiple institutions around the globe.

>>5031274
>If it is genuine, and still has viable DNA, then it is also their best chance at a return.
Well the priority of western governments is in importing browns and extincting whites for Israel so you can forget about any any ancient mammal or bird being resurrected from the grave via advanced genetic manipulation.
The specimens are here but the elites don't give a fuck.
It's over.
It's never happening.
So forget about it.
Everyone in 100 years is going to be a mix of the Chinese, Indians and Africans.
Apart from pureblood jews in Isreal.

>>5026304
>weak arms

>>5031448
Because the nicobar pigeon can fly and doesn't have the same beak adaptations?

>>5031448
It's like claiming a seriema is the same as a terror birds lol