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Post by surroundx on Jan 31, 2015 4:18:14 GMT
Preliminary observations on hindlimb myology and syndesmology of the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus, Columbiformes)Abstract Although many of the pigeons are arboreal birds, some of them spend most of the time on the ground. This was especially true for large ground-dwelling Dodo of Mauritius. The cursorial habit of this species must have influenced the morphology of its legs. Although a number of works had been dedicated to the peculiarities of morphology and locomotion of the extinct Mascarene bird, none of them have dealt with the reconstruction of muscular and ligament structures of its hind extremities. The only existing work in which mostly the intrinsic muscles of tarsometatarsus are treated is too old to be used in modern analysis (Strickland, Melville, 1848). As the part of limb directly contacting to the substrate, avian foot is of particular importance in understanding the locomotor adaptations. Any changes in locomotion would affect its morphology, muscular and ligament structure. Tarsometatarsus of the Dodo resembles those of other ground pigeon, although being stouter due to the bulk of Raphus. The form and position of muscles, originating on the tarsometatarsus can be reconstructed in details due to the well-pronounced relief. As in modern counterparts, the following muscles were present in Dodo: m. flexor hallucis brevis, m. extensor hallucis longus, m. adductor digiti 2, m. abductor digiti 2, m. extensor proprius digiti 3, m. extensor proprius digiti 4, m. abductor digiti 4. The presence of m. lumbricalis cannot be verified as it does not contact to the bones. The development of the mentioned muscles is typical for Columbidae, except for the larger size of m. flexor hallucis brevis. This muscle, supporting larger m. flexor hallucis longus in flexion of the hind toe, is better developed in birds with long hallux (Zinoviev, 2002). Dodos, despite their ground-dwelling habits and the lack of perching and grasping abilities, retain relatively hallux for the balance’s sake. Obviously stronger muscle supply of hallux is necessary to aid in balancing of such a large bird. Source: Zinoview, Andrei V. (2014). Preliminary observations on hindlimb myology and syndesmology of the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus, Columbiformes) / eds. Delfino M., Carnevale G., Pavia M. Abstract book and field guide, XII Annual Meeting of EAVP. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali. Torino: EAVP. P. 159.
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Post by surroundx on Apr 13, 2015 9:21:05 GMT
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Post by surroundx on May 6, 2015 14:36:24 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Sept 8, 2015 19:51:17 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Oct 3, 2015 10:18:37 GMT
Hengst, Jan Den. (2009). The dodo and scientific fantasies: durable myths of a tough bird. Archives of Natural History 36(1): 136-145. [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Oct 3, 2015 10:19:32 GMT
The ‘Bundi dodo’: a drawing copying European animals – a curious byway in nineteenth century Indian artAbstract A nineteenth-century Indian sheet of sketches showing a dodo Raphus cucullatus and other animals is shown to consist of copies of wood engravings from British popular animal books from the early to mid-1800s, and has no connection with Mansur’s classic dodo from 1624. Source: Cheke, Anthony S. and Parish, Jolyon. (2015). The ‘Bundi dodo’: a drawing copying European animals – a curious byway in nineteenth century Indian art. Historical Biology. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2015.1079629 [ Abstract]
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Post by surroundx on Oct 3, 2015 10:21:24 GMT
Assembling the dodo in early modern natural historyAbstract This paper explores the assimilation of the flightless dodo into early modern natural history. The dodo was first described by Dutch sailors landing on Mauritius in 1598, and became extinct in the 1680s or 1690s. Despite this brief period of encounter, the bird was a popular subject in natural-history works and a range of other genres. The dodo will be used here as a counterexample to the historical narratives of taxonomic crisis and abrupt shifts in natural history caused by exotic creatures coming to Europe. Though this bird had a bizarre form, early modern naturalists integrated the dodo and other flightless birds through several levels of conceptual categorization, including the geographical, morphological and symbolic. Naturalists such as Charles L'Ecluse produced a set of typical descriptive tropes that helped make up the European dodo. These long-lived images were used for a variety of symbolic purposes, demonstrated by the depiction of the Dutch East India enterprise in Willem Piso's 1658 publication. The case of the dodo shows that, far from there being a dramatic shift away from emblematics in the seventeenth century, the implicit symbolic roles attributed to exotic beasts by naturalists constructing them from scant information and specimens remained integral to natural history. Source: Lawrence, Natalie. (2015). Assembling the dodo in early modern natural history. The British Journal for the History of Science 48(3): 387-408. [ Abstract]
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Post by surroundx on Oct 3, 2015 10:23:58 GMT
The intercultural dodo: a drawing from the School of Bundi, Rājasthān Emmanuel Richon & Ria Winters Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology The iconic dodo Raphus cucullatus once occurred on the isolated Mascarene Island of Mauritius, situated in the southwestern Indian Ocean. Mauritius was once a paradise for a unique flora and fauna that evolved in isolation for 8 million years. The dodo was sought after by seafarers who visited the island from the early sixteenth century onwards because we know from remains surviving in collections and a series of artworks that captive dodos were transported to Europe, India and Japan. This article presents a hitherto unpublished image of a dodo, preserved in the collection of the Trustees, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, the formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India. The bird is situated in a non-Mauritian environment together with other animals and it is named in Hindi. We further explore the background of this creation and its implication on the iconography of the dodo. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2014.961450?journalCode=ghbi20#.VElU5BZonKcNow available free online: Richon, Emmanuel and Winters, Ria. (2014). The intercultural dodo: a drawing from the School of Bundi, Rājasthān. Historical Biology. |
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Post by surroundx on Oct 3, 2015 10:26:32 GMT
Ria Winters & Julian P. Hume The dodo, the deer and a 1647 voyage to Japan. In: Historical Biology Abstract: More has been written about the iconic Dodo Raphus cucullatus of Mauritius than any other extinct bird, yet despite its familiarity, only a few specimens were exported from Mauritius; individual birds reached Europe alive in 1626 and 1638 and at least two survived a journey to India in 1625. There are also vague records of other exported birds. Here, we provide confirmation based on seventeenth century documents that a live Dodo was sent to Japan in 1647, the last known captive bird, and comment on the details of its long and arduous voyage. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2014.884566?src=recsys#.UyRDSIXwrTcFull text available free online: Winters, Ria and Hume, Julian Pender. (2014). The dodo, the deer and a 1647 voyage to Japan. Historical Biology. DOI:10.1080/08912963.2014.884566 |
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Post by koeiyabe on Nov 27, 2015 21:20:21 GMT
Ria Winters & Julian P. Hume The dodo, the deer and a 1647 voyage to Japan. In: Historical Biology Abstract: More has been written about the iconic Dodo Raphus cucullatus of Mauritius than any other extinct bird, yet despite its familiarity, only a few specimens were exported from Mauritius; individual birds reached Europe alive in 1626 and 1638 and at least two survived a journey to India in 1625. There are also vague records of other exported birds. Here, we provide confirmation based on seventeenth century documents that a live Dodo was sent to Japan in 1647, the last known captive bird, and comment on the details of its long and arduous voyage. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2014.884566?src=recsys#.UyRDSIXwrTcFull text available free online: Winters, Ria and Hume, Julian Pender. (2014). The dodo, the deer and a 1647 voyage to Japan. Historical Biology. DOI:10.1080/08912963.2014.884566 Really? I never heard that a live Dodo was sent to Japan. Wow! Thank you for informing the valuable information! There is no source in Japanese. |
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Post by koeiyabe on Nov 27, 2015 21:27:24 GMT
 Rice, Paul, and Mayle, Peter (1981). As Dead as a Dodo |
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Post by Melanie on Dec 1, 2015 23:19:03 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Dec 4, 2015 1:27:32 GMT
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Post by koeiyabe on Dec 12, 2015 15:14:26 GMT
 "The Earth Extinct Fauna (in Japanese)" by Tadaaki Imaizumi (1986) |
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Post by surroundx on Dec 30, 2015 11:54:29 GMT
The curious case of the Dodo: Leveraging the Nicobar pigeon genome to resurrect this long-extinct bird Date: Monday, January 11, 2016 Time: 6:50 PM Room: Royal Palm Salon 1-2 Beth Shapiro , Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA The Nicobar pigeon, Caloenas nicobarica, is among the most ornate of pigeons. Although it is threatened by human population growth and the colonization of their native habitats by invasive predators, the Nicobar pigeon has an extensive breeding range that spans the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India to offshore islands of Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam. This large range is maintained by their strong capacity for flight; Nicobar pigeons roam in large flocks from island to island, usually sleeping on offshore islets where no predators occur. Although they are strong flyers, the ancestors of present-day Nicobar pigeons gave rise to at least two now-extinct species of flightless pigeon: the dodo, Raphus cuculattus, of Mauritius Island, and the solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria, of Rodrigues Island. We present a new, high quality Nicobar pigeon genome and genomic data from both the dodo and solitaire. Using a comparative genomics approach, our goal is to identify regions of the genome that may be associated with some of the strangest characteristics of the two extinct pigeons, including loss of flight, paedomorphy, and looking silly. Source: pag.confex.com/pag/xxiv/webprogram/Paper22307.html |
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Post by surroundx on Jan 17, 2016 10:00:55 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Jan 17, 2016 10:11:53 GMT
Shapiro, Beth, Sibthorpe D, Rambaut A, Austin J, Wragg GM, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Lee PLM, Cooper A. (2002). Flight of the Dodo. Science 295(5560): 1683. |
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Post by Melanie on Feb 4, 2016 8:57:36 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Feb 23, 2016 20:26:19 GMT
The first endocast of the extinct dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and an anatomical comparison amongst close relatives (Aves, Columbiformes) Maria Eugenia Leone Gold1,2,3,*, Estelle Bourdon4 andMark A. Norell1 Keywords: columbiformes;comparative morphology;computed tomography;dodo;endocast;palaeoneurology;Raphinae The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) became extinct only 100 years after humans first arrived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Even though it has become an example of oddity, obsolescence, stupidity, and extinction, most aspects of its biology are still unknown. We used high-resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning to examine the endocranial morphology of the dodo and compare this virtual endocast to eight close relatives. Enlarged olfactory bulbs are a shared characteristic of the Raphinae and posteriorly angled semicircular canals are particular to the dodo compared with the other eight species sampled here. A regression of log endocranial volume against log body size shows that the dodo has an endocranial volume on par with other pigeons. Aspects of the dodo's biology are discussed in relation to these endocranial features. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12388/abstract |
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Post by Melanie on Feb 23, 2016 20:26:58 GMT
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