#DODO

[amnhnyc]

Did you know? This colorful bird might be one of the Dodo’s closest living relatives! Meet the Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica). This bird lives in forest or mangrove habitats on islands, such as the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Like some other birds and reptiles, it has a gizzard stone in its stomach that helps break down tougher foods in its diet, like the hard exteriors of seeds and nuts.

Photo: Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

[foldingfittedsheets]

In college I did this production of Alice in Wonderland. I got cast as the Dodo who’s part of the caucus race and it was really fun. As part of my character I developed this absolutely unhinged laugh, because our scene is basically just chasing each other around in a circle screaming.

The laugh was a full throated undulating crazy burst of sound, like a mashup of every other 90’s anime villain and SpongeBob, if they were tripping balls and having the best time of their life. It is not a laugh for indoors.

As the production got under way our costumes rolled out and it was Very low budget so my costume was a purple tshirt with a feather boa wound through it, feathers spirit gummed to my face, a purple skirt, and purple pantyhose.

Now the trouble was that my scenes were all running, and there wasn’t shoes in my costume. The pantyhose slid on every surface like ice, from the stage to the aisles. I brought up concerns about falling but basically got told to just be careful.

The show must go on and so I took to the stage with my extremely slippery feet, vowing that if I fell I’d stay in character.

We had two performances and a dress rehearsal and in each one we run out three times and on the last we run down through the audience. The dress rehearsal and first performance I got through and kept my feet, slipping but flailing myself upright each time and laughing my insane character laugh at the foibles.

The final show dawned. I was confident I’d be able to manage. The first two caucus races went by and I stayed up. On the third I circled the stage okay but as I was dashing off stage through the aisle, my foot slipped out from under me.

It was slow motion for me as I felt the eyes of the audience tracking my slow tilt forward. I reached out to catch myself and landed with a hard whumpf on my stomach, seeing stars as all the air left my body. A hush fell as everyone waited with bated breath to see if this was part of the show or if they’d just watched a performer eat shit and injure themself.

The second I could reinflate my lungs I shrieked out with, “AhAhaahaHaA!” Scrabbling to my feet I flapped my arms and followed after the dormouse and turtle, laughing hysterically.

My elbows and pride were bruised but by god, I stayed in character.

Afterward my friends said, “Did you have to do that every time? It was my favorite part! Your laugh was so good!”

[theyshapedlikefriends]

Sunlemon - LOST ANIMALS

[cremsie]

Galoys is a bit of a worrier, but that’s why he has friends like Sir Lancelot.

[stinkybrowndogs]

But what if we still had the dodo

[retrogamingblog2]

Animal Crossing Postcards made by Stephology

[thylacines-toybox]

A thylacine figure being sold in a local toy shop, that's a first! Oh and some other animals.

These are the Fossil Isle pack of Adopt Me figures. Obviously got the pack just for the thyla, but the rest of them are really cute too! I especially like the neon glyptodon. The sabre toothed cat was the surprise figure (a cat from an egg?? Hmm...)

[littleguymart]

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[all-iridescent-birds]

Strutting in as our next bird; the Nicobar pigeon.

The nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica) is a pretty good sized pigeon from India! The bird, while known for its fantastic, beaming rainbow iridescent feathers is also known for being the closest living relative of the dodo (yes, the dodo was a pigeon!) and also near threatened. It is also the only living member in its genus. Amazing!

[hoard-of-plushes]

Sun Lemon Lost animals dodo bird plush (2023)

[eilooxara]

All right if you see this post put in the tags a list of all the Wikipedia pages you have open in your tabs no matter how long they've been there

[spoonybird]

New bookmarks and stickers are done! 🦖

Since I had fun with the first set of bookmarks I wanted to make another one in the same style! These are more simple, in a classic rectangular format, and without a tassel. Sort of like a mini art print. They're also a little smaller than the first batch. Naturally I also had to make matching stickers (a lineart-only version of the sticker designs is used on the back of the bookmarks).

This time in the roster, the extinct ones: The dodo, pteranodon, spinosaurus (to the best of my current knowledge, I'm not sure what's going on in the sail discussion anymore) and styxosaurus.

And among the extant animals we've got: The shoebill, the bearded vulture, the florida conch snail and the mediterranean moray.

I hope you enjoy! c:

[sidetongue]

framed by a golden retriever

[kuro93]

Ojamajo Doremi ~ Ichiban Coffret Pretty Witchy Collection ~ Official Arts ♥

Scanned and edited by KuRo93

[retrogamingblog2]

Animal Crossing Postcards made by Stephology