Term
Dodo
A flightless bird of the island of Mauritius, wiped out by people and the animals they brought in the seventeenth century.
The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin
Explained in
- The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
A large flightless bird, a relative of the pigeon, that lived only on the island of Mauritius. People wiped it out in the seventeenth century.