Dodo and the Solitaire A Natural History

Name: Dodo and the Solitaire A Natural History
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ISBN: 9780253000996

ISBN-10: 0253000998

ISBN-13: 9780253000996

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jolyon C. Parish

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The Dodo and the Solitaire is the most comprehensive book to date on these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary accounts and illustrations of the dodo and solitaire, covering their history after extinction and discussing their ecology, classification, phylogenetic placement, and evolution. Both birds were large, flightless, and inhabited islands of Mauritius (the dodo) and Rodrigues (the solitaire) some 500 miles east of Madagascar. The first recorded descriptions of the dodo were provided by Dutch sailors who first landed on Mauritius in 1598 -- within 100 years, the dodo was extinct. So quickly did the bird disappear that there is insufficient evidence to…

Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/3/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.00" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 3.190

Jolyon Parish took his degree in Geology and Palaeontology at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London, and wrote his D.Phil. at Oxford on the evolutionary history and paleobiology of Ankylosauria.