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A new soft sculpture. His eyes can be rotated, and the beak is also kinda flexible, so he's a rather expressive felllow ^__^

Update: was sold, maybe will reappear on Etsy later.

Since childhood I always thought stories of dodo, the passenger pigeon and the great auk - the stories of species, destroyed by human activities - to be really sad. So, here is the story of dodo.
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Dodo, or dronts, lived on the islands of the Indian Ocean. There were no predators, who could hunt them, and also a whole lot of food, that's why, as they evoled, their wings slowly atrophied. So, when european sailed to that area in XVI century, they found this non-flying birds, which also weren't afraid of them. To catch one you could simply walk towards it and strike it. Even though their meat tasted disgusting, the sailsmen still hunted such an easy prey, and in about 100-200 years they were completely gone. Even the scientists haven't managed to properly study them and they were believed to be a myth for some time. Lately, studying subfossil remains, scientists discovered that dronts were a kind of pigeons, though they were up to 1m high and their weight was 10-18 kg.

Now dodo is the symbol of Mauritius. Also, everyone remembers Dodo as one of the characters of "Alice in Wonderland", representing, as they say, Lewis Carrol himself.

Description
A new soft sculpture. His eyes can be rotated, and the beak is also kinda flexible, so he's a rather expressive felllow ^__^

Update: was sold, maybe will reappear on Etsy later.

Since childhood I always thought stories of dodo, the passenger pigeon and the great auk - the stories of species, destroyed by human activities - to be really sad. So, here is the story of dodo.
-----
Dodo, or dronts, lived on the islands of the Indian Ocean. There were no predators, who could hunt them, and also a whole lot of food, that's why, as they evoled, their wings slowly atrophied. So, when european sailed to that area in XVI century, they found this non-flying birds, which also weren't afraid of them. To catch one you could simply walk towards it and strike it. Even though their meat tasted disgusting, the sailsmen still hunted such an easy prey, and in about 100-200 years they were completely gone. Even the scientists haven't managed to properly study them and they were believed to be a myth for some time. Lately, studying subfossil remains, scientists discovered that dronts were a kind of pigeons, though they were up to 1m high and their weight was 10-18 kg.

Now dodo is the symbol of Mauritius. Also, everyone remembers Dodo as one of the characters of "Alice in Wonderland", representing, as they say, Lewis Carrol himself.