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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 254. Chapters: Dodo, Rodrigues Starling, Thylacine, Huia, Great Auk, Aurochs, Passenger Pigeon, IUCN Red List of extinct species, Rodrigues Solitaire, Eastern Cougar, Oryzomys antillarum, Noronhomys, Red Rail, Bluebuck, Mauritius Blue Pigeon, Gastric-brooding frog, Falkland Islands wolf, Stephens Island Wren, Broad-billed Parrot, Aepyornis, Saint Croix Macaw, Caribbean monk seal, Carolina Parakeet, Mariana Mallard, Canarian Oystercatcher, Heath Hen, Pennatomys, Malagasy Hippopotamus, Haast's Eagle, Rodrigues Rail, Javan tiger, Cryptoprocta spelea, Laughing Owl, Golden toad, Oryzomys nelsoni, Laysan Rail, Reunion Ibis, Norfolk Kaka, Desert rat-kangaroo, Japanese sea lion, Quagga, Steller's sea cow, Bali tiger, South Island Snipe, Pig-footed bandicoot, Newton's Parakeet, Dinornis, King Island Emu, Mascarene Parrot, Bubal Hartebeest, Mauke Starling, Pied Raven, Hawaiian Rail, New Zealand Little Bittern, South Island Piopio, Harelip Sucker, Jamaican monkey, Labrador Duck, Lesser bilby, Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis, Hoopoe Starling, Clappia umbilicata, Rodrigues Parrot, Vegas Valley Leopard Frog, Guadalupe Caracara, Tahiti Sandpiper, Kangaroo Island Emu, Cape Lion, Hagerman horse, Alaotra Grebe, Long-tailed hopping mouse, Pyrenean ibex, Tanna Ground Dove, European Lion, Macroscincus, Bonin Grosbeak, Barbados raccoon, Rocky Mountain locust, Eastern hare-wallaby, Kaua i, New Zealand Quail, Schomburgk's Deer, Bushwren, Greater Koa Finch, Norfolk Pigeon, Reunion Pink Pigeon, Lord Howe Pigeon, O ahu, Cuban Macaw, Spectacled Cormorant, Kona Grosbeak, Vanvoorstia bennettiana, Aldabra banded snail, Lana i Hookbill, Mascarene Coot, Reunion Parakeet, Japanese river otter, Reunion Swamphen, Rodrigues Owl, North Island Snipe, Maclear's Rat, Hawai'i Mamo, Dusky Seaside Sparrow, Tahitian Red-billed Rail, North Island Piopio, Pemberton's Deer Mouse, Mexican grizzly bear, Oligoryzomys victus, Hawai i, Molokai Creeper, Mauritius Owl, Small Mauritian Flying Fox, Ascension Night Heron, Syrian elephant, Wake Island Rail, Reunion Kestrel, Atitlan Grebe, Rodrigues day gecko, Delalande's Coua, Black-fronted Parakeet, Corded purg, Liverpool Pigeon, Philautus maia, Kaua i Akialoa, Mauritian Shelduck, Maui Akepa, Laysan Apapane, Nannophrys guentheri, Sea Mink, Lesser Koa Finch, Chatham Fernbird, Puerto Rican Conure, Tasmanian Emu, Ryukyu Wood Pigeon, Sinployea decorticata, Mauritian Duck, Kosrae Crake, Bonin Thrush, Round Island Burrowing Boa, Atlas bear, Macquarie Parakeet, Kawekaweau, Wood Harrier, Brace's Emerald, Lesser Antillean Macaw, Western black rhinoceros, Rodrigues Night Heron, Bishop's, Grand Cayman Thrush, Choiseul Pigeon, Dryotribus mimeticus, Auckland Merganser, Xerces Blue, Karocolens tuberculatus, K ma o, Insular Cave Rat, Toolache wallaby, Lepidochrysops hypopolia, Eyles' Harrier, Reunion Rail, Paradise Parrot, Kosrae Starling, Kioea, Mauritian Giant Skink, Ryukyu Kingfisher, Ontocetus, Tasman Booby, Bonin Wood Pigeon, Black Mamo, San Benedicto Rock Wren, Megalomys desmarestii, White-winged Sandpiper, Lord Howe Swamphen, Reunion Night Heron, Crescent nail-tail wallaby, Reunion Owl, Ula- ai-Hawane, Society Parakeet. Excerpt: The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Its closest genetic relative was the also extinct Rodrigues Solitaire, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae of the family of pigeons and doves. The closest living relative of the Dodo is the Nicobar Pigeon. A white Dodo was once incorrectly thought to have existed on the nearby island of Reunion. The Dodo was about one metre (3.3 ft) tall and may have weighed 10-18 kg (22-40 lb) in the wild. Its external appearance is evidenced only by paintings and written accounts from...
