The Great Dodo Exhibition

I don't understand this.:confused: The only genuine remains of Dodo are, I believe, a beak and a foot which I think are in Oxford Museum. So I think these must all be taxidermists' models of Dodos- many museums have mounted reconstructions, complete with feathers etc.
 
Pertinax said:
I don't understand this.:confused: The only genuine remains of Dodo are, I believe, a beak and a foot which I think are in Oxford Museum. So I think these must all be taxidermists' models of Dodos- many museums have mounted reconstructions, complete with feathers etc.
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I can't tell what the museum has in terms of skeletons from the video, but if the Wikipedia article is accurate then it seems that there are lots of subfossil remains around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo#Physical_remains
 
yes there are absolutely loads of skeletal remains. But the remains of only one stuffed bird.

However, the exhibition is actually of model dodos and casts of skeletons.
http://www.kendalmuseum.org.uk/what's_on_130502_great_dodo_exhibition.php
The Great Dodo Exhibition has now arrived at Kendal Museum. This is a collection of lifelike reproduction Dodos by Carl Church, International Award Winning Bird Taxidermist. It is the largest gathering of Dodos since they became extinct!

Kendal Museum is first in the world to host this exhibition of Dodos by Carl Church. www.birdtaxidermy.co.uk We also have Dodo Skeletons, created by Luke Williams. This is made up of casts of genuine bones from three separate Dodos. www.skeletonsUK.com
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It doesn't appear they have any genuine dodo remains in the exhibition!
 
Well you live and learn! I thought (assumed) that the model in the Natural History Museum (London) was a real stuffed Dodo until now. I have never really given it any thought.... Maybe Charles Darwin in his chair at the back of the Great Hall is not the real mummified Charles Darwin??

This Dodo exhibition is only actually just over an hour up the motorway from where I live, so maybe worth a visit.
 
Pootle said:
This Dodo exhibition is only actually just over an hour up the motorway from where I live, so maybe worth a visit.
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They also used to have a Thylacine on display (not sure if it still is) -maybe that'll encourage you a bit more:).
 
Pootle said:
Well you live and learn! I thought (assumed) that the model in the Natural History Museum (London) was a real stuffed Dodo until now.
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There was an exhibition at the Nat His Mus a couple of years back which dealt with the poineering work of the early Naturalists. One section was evoted to depictions of the Dodo- how the earlier painters and taxidermists probably used their imaginations a lot to create those strange big fat rotund birds which are the usual depictions of Dodos in paintings and taxidermy. Modern scientists and artists working together with a better understanding of the dynamics of birds, created a rather slimmer version.
 
Pertinax said:
There was an exhibition at the Nat His Mus a couple of years back which dealt with the poineering work of the early Naturalists. One section was evoted to depictions of the Dodo- how the earlier painters and taxidermists probably used their imaginations a lot to create those strange big fat rotund birds which are the usual depictions of Dodos in paintings and taxidermy. Modern scientists and artists working together with a better understanding of the dynamics of birds, created a rather slimmer version.
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The good thing is these paintings are still on display at the natural history museum, in the last gallery before the cocoon (giant white thing where the scientists work!), it also depicts other Mauritian wildlife and how they were portrayed then and now.
 
For anyone interested in Mauritius and its current and extinct wildlife I cannot recommend highly enough "Lost Land of the Dodo" by Anthony Cheke and Julian Hume - it is pretty much the definitive work on exactly what happened when, including how the animals got there in the first place and the time line of the various extinctions 9of which the Dodo was only one unfortunately)
 
Zoovolunteer said:
For anyone interested in Mauritius and its current and extinct wildlife I cannot recommend highly enough "Lost Land of the Dodo" by Anthony Cheke and Julian Hume - it is pretty much the definitive work on exactly what happened when, including how the animals got there in the first place and the time line of the various extinctions 9of which the Dodo was only one unfortunately)
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I’m not familiar with the “Lost Land of the Dodo” book but, for anybody seriously interested in dodos, I thoroughly recommend the following recent publication:-

The Dodo and the Solitaire A Natural History (Jolyon C. Parish; 2013)
 
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