The Dodo And The Solitaire
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The Dodo and the Solitaire
Author: Jolyon C. Parish
language: en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date: 2012-12-03
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
The Dodo and the Solitaire
Author: Jolyon C. Parish
language: en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date: 2013
The most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds.
The Dodo and its Kindred
Author: Hugh Edwin Strickland
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2014-10-15
Attempting to separate myth from reality, this 1848 monograph analyses the historical evidence and osteology of several extinct bird species.