Dodo sighting?

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I have a hard to believing this is legit , but ill See what ithe people think I haven’t watched it yet . Possibly a different bird?

 

[FatBadBay]

I have a hard time believing things on YouTube especially with the AI craze. But it would be pretty neat if it is true. I'm still hopeful that the thylacine is still alive

 

[The Snark]

I have a hard time believing things on YouTube especially with the AI craze.

Unregulated, unchecked commercial enterprises garnering profits by the traffic through their web presence entirely without any of the restrictions of the false and or misleading advertising laws has turned Youtube into a fetid swamp of click baits. Even legit informational sites are giving in to the temptation to feather their nests - which is understandable. But veracity, the video showing only what the title presents is quickly going the way of the Dodo,.

What is really frying me is a news tidbit that can be handed over in less than a minute is almost always accompanied by a 10 minute or longer video. And then sales pitches. Look at the OP video. An announcer giving a sales pitch monologue with select enticing shorts interspersed with some questionable footage. See any reputable zoologists weighing in? Would you buy a used car from that guy?

 

[Tbone192]

This reminds me of the tree octopus from years ago... Even though I really wish Dodos were still kicking, they probably aren't. Don't worry though, one day we will have reversed their extinction only to factory farm them till the end of days. Do you think they taste like chicken or squab?

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

This reminds me of the tree octopus from years ago... Even though I really wish Dodos were still kicking, they probably aren't. Don't worry though, one day we will have reversed their extinction only to factory farm them till the end of days. Do you think they taste like chicken or squab?

sad they are gone although a few might exist yes . Maybe a flying one .
No they are giant squabs so probably like turkeys or something. Like a big pigeon..

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Wonder if it was real or not?? Dodo 🦤 sighting crypto zoology

 

[Brewser]

I do do hope that the dodo is alive.
A True Flightless Bird Tragedy

 

[Tbone192]

Dodo and Rodrigues Solitaire . They must have had legendary flavour. Respect to the real G's, only Nicobar Pigeons remember.

 

[darkness975]

The first 10 minutes of this episode are dedicated to another sadly extinct family of birds.

 

[Arachnopotamus Rex]

I have a hard to believing this is legit , but ill See what ithe people think I haven’t watched it yet . Possibly a different bird?

Only way to know would be to go there yourself I suppose.
I'm fairly sure we do have DNA of them for use in de-extinction.
But do we have a close enough related bird? I honestly can't think of one.
Another possibility is if a closely related bird does still exist, it could have re-evolved into the dodo (I recall this happening in another bird species, I think it was a species of woodpecker)

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Only way to know would be to go there yourself I suppose.
I'm fairly sure we do have DNA of them for use in de-extinction.
But do we have a close enough related bird? I honestly can't think of one.
Another possibility is if a closely related bird does still exist, it could have re-evolved into the dodo (I recall this happening in another bird species, I think it was a species of woodpecker)

Pigeons are the closest related species.

 

[Arachnopotamus Rex]

Pigeons are the closest related species.

Ah, if thats the case then its very unlikely to have re-evolved without anyone noticing.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Ah, if thats the case then its very unlikely to have re-evolved without anyone noticing.

Yes and the ability to fly puts them evolutionary ahead of dodo 🦤 … o well atleast dodo lives in folklore and movies . Like ice age .

 

[Arachnopotamus Rex]

Yes and the ability to fly puts them evolutionary ahead of dodo 🦤 … o well atleast dodo lives in folklore and movies . Like ice age .

it was my understanding that dodos evolved from birds that flew to the island and lost their ability to fly over generations.
My reasoning for saying its unlikely to have re-evolved that exact genetic combination, is that the bird that it evolved directly from is gone (assuming pidgeons are its closest remaining kin).

 

[Matt Man]

I do do hope that the dodo is alive.
A True Flightless Bird Tragedy

and another example when you are explaining "we need to regulate hunting and fishing" for those idiots who have no understanding of history

 

[Brewser]

A Few Other Flightless Birds ... The Moa & The Great Auk, Extinct... The Kiwi & The Kakapo, Critically Endangered of Becoming Nothing but, A Mere Memory !

 

[Matt Man]

A Few Other Flightless Birds ... The Moa & The Great Auk, Extinct... The Kiwi & The Kakapo, Critically Endangered of Becoming Nothing but, A Mere Memory !

on certain forums you run into these knuckleheads who have this notion "It's food, I can kill it" and complain when there are videos of DFC Officials arresting / ticketing poachers.
We almost wiped out Redfish in the Gulf back in the 80s left to our devices. "Why do we need all these rules? America!!!" and you're replying "Well, without them, we do pretty quick work extinction things"
When you use terms like "Holocene Extinction Cycle" and explain in the Earth's multi billion year life span that this is the first time a single species, not a meteor, comet or million year volcanic eruption is causing an extinction event they
look at you like a dog when being spoken to.

 

[darkness975]

I'm fairly sure we do have DNA of them for use in de-extinction.

The thing about de-extinction is that it is a misnomer.

They may be able to tweak the DNA of living animals to resemble that of an extinct species. But it will never actually be the species as it was in actual life.

The way they pitch the efforts they make it sound like they are able to bring the species back in every aspect down to the very genetics, behaviors, etc and it will be like they were never gone. That only works if an animal is, for example, extinct in the wild but there are enough living captive specimens to build up a population with enough genetic diversity that can be released into the wild again.

Think California Condors.

 

[Arachnopotamus Rex]

The thing about de-extinction is that it is a misnomer.

They may be able to tweak the DNA of living animals to resemble that of an extinct species. But it will never actually be the species as it was in actual life.

The way they pitch the efforts they make it sound like they are able to bring the species back in every aspect down to the very genetics, behaviors, etc and it will be like they were never gone. That only works if an animal is, for example, extinct in the wild but there are enough living captive specimens to build up a population with enough genetic diversity that can be released into the wild again.

Think California Condors.

Thats true, its essentially more akin to an approximate recreation or engineered convergence.
Still worth doing in my opinion though.

I'm not really a purist on this sort of thing, its more about ecological niche filling and aesthetic variety for me.
I'm also pro creating entirely new species this way as well.
Like a saber toothed tiger (a siberian tiger engineered to have smilodon fatalis like canine teeth).

A lot of people frown on this sort of thing, but without extreme mastery over genetics, the world will be a sad place when the next mass extinction takes its toll.
Its already kind of sad to be honest (only Africa and parts of Asia still have megafauna for example, and to fix that you would need altered versions of those placed elsewhere).

Using genetically modified whoolly elephants to populate canada and russia for example, is just as good as regaining actual mammoths or mastodons in my opinion.
Plus I'd definitely be the type to run an approximation of Jurassic Park.

I read a study recently that scientists figured out how to switch the feather gene "off" in birds, it results in the bird growing scales instead, very cool stuff.
Still waiting for the "chickenosaurus" project to finish... (though honestly emus, cassowarys, or shoebill storks seem like a better fit). They are having success recovering traits like teeth, clawed fingers, and scales (though most theropods had feathers anyway), but apparently the tail growth gene is completely lost in modern birds, so they would need to import it from crocodilians.

 

[darkness975]

To quote Ian Malcolm:

"Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

Instead of trying to make Frankenstein animals the focus should really be on preserving the habitats and such so that what we currently have can survive. In the end it will come back to humans anyway, whether or not they want to believe it.