The Dodo is the emblematic animal of the island Maurice, although this bird been exterminated, the Mauritian and the tourists have it have never immortalized. The Dodo is, plush, wooden or porcelain, on T-shirts, on stamps everywhere.

The Dodo was a bird of the size of a turkey, weighing 20 about kg and measuring 1 metre in not much meadows.

It was short on its legs with a bent back beak, he lived on the island Maurice, in the archipelago of Mascareignes in the past.

Due to the absence of predators, it had lost its aptitude for theft. Terrifically clumsy in his movements, it is besides for this reason that the Mauritian nicknamed it Dodo.

It constructed its nest in pyramid on even the soil, thanks to leaves of the palm. It laid the single egg in the nest which was alternately brooded by the parents because the baby took time to develop. The life, was, at the very least 30 years old. Unfortunately, as the nest was constructed on even the soil, the babies of Dodo benefited from not enough protection against the introduction of the predators such as the dogs and the wild pigs. The egg of the Dodo was often trampled and eaten by these animals.

The Portuguese Afonso de Albuquerque and his men discovered the island Maurice and the b Dodo, in 1598. All over the isolation of the island and the absence of beings human, the Dodo received the new visitors with naivety, but was quickly deceived by the men. It was an easy prey and exterminated cruelly.

The last Dodo died in 1681. The reconstitution of this missing animal perhaps admired in the museum of Natural history in Port-Louis thanks to a naturalist who in 1865 should discover a complete skeleton of the Dodo near Pleasure.

The Dodo took its revenge on the man. It is always there and runs the risk in boutiques, on the signs of restaurants and stores.

The Dodo pleases always very much the children and adults, because it is represented as an unassuming, nice and naïve animal. Unable to defend itself against the predators and it is what caused its redemption.