The Dodo and the Solitaire

A Natural History

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Earth Sciences, Palaeontology, Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Author: Jolyon C. Parish ISBN: 9780253001030
Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication: December 3, 2012
Imprint: Indiana University Press Language: English
Author: Jolyon C. Parish
ISBN: 9780253001030
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication: December 3, 2012
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Language: English

This account of two extinct bird species offers “an amazing amount of history, references, facts, maps, and illustrations”****(Library Journal).

The Dodo and the Solitaire is the most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary accounts and illustrations of the dodo and solitaire, covering their history after extinction and discussing their ecology, classification, phylogenetic placement, and evolution.

Both birds were large and flightless and lived on inhabited islands some five hundred miles east of Madagascar. The first recorded descriptions of the dodo were provided by Dutch sailors who encountered them in 1598—and within a century, the dodo was extinct. So quickly did the bird disappear that there is insufficient evidence to form an entirely accurate picture of its appearance and ecology, and the absence has led to much speculation. This extraordinary book pieces together the story of these two lost species from the fragments that have been left behind.

“An up-to-date and comprehensive review of everything we know about the dodo and solitaire.” —Journal of Verterbrate Paleontology

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This account of two extinct bird species offers “an amazing amount of history, references, facts, maps, and illustrations”****(Library Journal).

The Dodo and the Solitaire is the most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary accounts and illustrations of the dodo and solitaire, covering their history after extinction and discussing their ecology, classification, phylogenetic placement, and evolution.

Both birds were large and flightless and lived on inhabited islands some five hundred miles east of Madagascar. The first recorded descriptions of the dodo were provided by Dutch sailors who encountered them in 1598—and within a century, the dodo was extinct. So quickly did the bird disappear that there is insufficient evidence to form an entirely accurate picture of its appearance and ecology, and the absence has led to much speculation. This extraordinary book pieces together the story of these two lost species from the fragments that have been left behind.

“An up-to-date and comprehensive review of everything we know about the dodo and solitaire.” —Journal of Verterbrate Paleontology

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