Natural History Wanderings

Observatorial reported

The famous bird dodo rotund, that lives on the ground and is not afraid of humans, which is a great danger, became an icon of extinction when it disappeared from the island of Mauricio and Earth in the 17th century, shortly after Dutch settlers first found it.

Now, Brazilian ornithologists claim to have discovered an analogue of the dodo in the remote Amazon:

The strain with a slate mask, a chicken-like bird that shows total indifference towards people.

— Read on observatorial.com/news/world/1547516/its-not-a-dodo-but-this-newly-discovered-bird-could-share-the-same-fate/