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BREVIPENNES

In Cuvier's classification, the brevipennes are the first family of his order Grallas, or wading-birds, and equivalent to the order Cursores or section Ratitae of other naturalists. The ostrich, emu, cassowary, dodo, etc, belong to this tribe.
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DIDUNCULUS

Didunculus is a genus of birds allied to the pigeons, and comprising only the one species, Didunculus strigirostris of Samoa.This bird is of special interest as being the nearest living ally of the extinct dodo. It has a length of about 14 inches, with a glossy plumage verging from a velvety black on the back to greenish black on the head, breast, and abdomen. The large beak, which is nearly as long as the head, is greatly arched on the upper half, while the lower is furnished with two or three tooth-like indentations.
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DODO

The Dodo (Didus ineptus) was a huge, flightless bird of the pigeon order, Columbidae, formerly found in abundance only on the island of Mauritius. The Dodo had rudimentary wings, short, stout legs and a tail of soft plumage. The beak was strongly arched towards the end, and the upper mandible had a hooked point like that of a bird of prey. In 1644 when the island was first colonised by the Dutch the dodo was present in great numbers, but within forty years a combination of the loss of natural habitat to cyltivation and hunting for food led to the Dodo's extinction in the first and most famous ecological tragedy committed by Man.

In 2002 scientists at Oxford university, England extracted DNA from the only remaining Dodo tissue in existence and claimed to have discovered that the Dodo was a pigeon. However, this had already been known for at least 100 years, as evidenced by Lloyd's Encyclopaedia Dictionary, published in 1895 by Edward Lloyd Limited of London describes the dodo as 'A large bird, belonging to the order Columbidae, or Pigeons'.
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SOLITAIRE

The solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) is an extinct flightless pigeon, nearly allied to the dodo, which lived in the island of Rodriguez in the Indian Ocean until about 1761. It had longer legs than the dodo, the male standing almost one metre high.
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JACKIE LANE

Jackie Lane is an English actress. She was born in 1947 at Manchester. A theatre actress, she turned down the part of 'Susan' in the television series 'Dr Who' before later accepting the part of 'Dodo' in the television series 'Dr Who'. After her contract ended she retired from acting.
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DODO 2456 VIRUS

The Dodo 2456 Virus is a computer virus which infects .COM files including COMMAND.COM. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation and corrupts program or overlay files.
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DODO VIRUS

The Dodo Virus is a computer virus The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation and corrupts program or overlay files.
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DODO

Dodo is sang for a foolish person, an idiot.
Dodo is slang for a conservative person behind the times.
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