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百度百科 网页新闻贴吧知道网盘图片视频地图文库资讯采购百科百度首页登录注册进入词条全站搜索帮助首页秒懂百科特色百科知识专题加入百科百科团队权威合作下载百科APP个人中心收藏查看我的收藏0有用+10多多鸟播报讨论上传视频多多鸟属渡渡鸟种鸟类多多鸟是毛里求斯特有的，也是毛里求斯的象征。但由于人们的大肆猎杀，导致它于1690年前后灭绝。多多鸟（dodo bird）是西印度洋毛里求斯岛的「土著」，它不会飞，体重可达十二公斤以上，模样有点像火鸡，却与鸽子有较密切的亲缘关系。十五世纪西方人登上这座岛后，这种鸟就遭了天谴，两百年之内，到1680年代便全部灭绝了。造成它们绝种的因素，据推测一是它们的蛋十分味美，给人大量地填入肚皮；一是让人带上岛的「洋猪」。今天我们除了一些画影图形之外，只有博物馆中的朽骨可供凭吊──遥想当年。不过，三百年来，多多鸟虽已绝迹人间，它的幽灵似乎仍在毛里求斯岛上徘徊……。别    名嘟嘟鸟、渡渡鸟界动物界门脊索动物门纲鸟纲目鸽形目科鸠鸽科属多多鸟属种渡渡鸟分布区域印度洋模里西斯岛（已灭绝）中文学名多多鸟目录1沉睡不醒的种子2互利共生3异议4答辩5评论沉睡不醒的种子播报编辑1977年八月，美国威斯康辛大学生态学系的谭波（S. A. Temple），在「科学」上（vol.197, p.885～6）发表了一篇论文。他指出毛里求斯岛上的一种乔木，学名Calvaria major，已濒临绝种。1973年岛上只发现13棵这种树，它们都已衰老，快要死亡。岛上经验丰富的森林学者，估计这些树的树龄都超过三百年。它们每年都能产生有活力的种子，但就是不发芽，岛上也不见树龄较轻的这种树。岛上的林业机构想尽办法使种子发芽，全都失败。然而calvaria过去却是岛上常见的树种，由已往的记载看来，岛上居民曾大量砍伐这种树，作为木材。calvaria的果实很大，直径达5公分，果皮薄，果肉柔软多汁，种子由厚可达1.5公分的果核（内果皮）包裹着。谭波认为calvaria的种子不发芽的原因，是核壳太厚，妨碍了种胚萌发。换言之，种胚因为无法突破核壳的封锁，只好「休眠」（这种现象英文叫做seed-coat dormancy）。那么过去这些种子是怎么萌发的呢？互利共生播报编辑谭波把两件事实结合在一起。其一，早期的探险家报导过多多鸟以大型树木的果实种子维生。事实上，在多多鸟的化石中确曾发现过calvaria的果核。多多鸟的砂囊（胃的一部分）强劲有力，中有大石子，可以协助磨碎食物坚硬的部分。其二，现存calvaria树的树龄，没有低于三百年的。也就是说，多多鸟绝种后的三百年间，calvaria树的种子没有发过芽。谭波因此认为calvaria树的种子，所以会包裹在那么坚厚的壳中，是适应多多鸟的生活模式的结果，这样才能使种子躲过在多多鸟砂囊中被磨碎的命运。这么一来，却使calvaria的繁殖非得依赖多多鸟不可。果核经过砂囊的研磨之后，变得较薄，种胚发育才能破壳而出。「何昔日之萧艾（喻恶德）兮，今直为此芳草（喻美德）也？」过去calvaria为了完成「生命的意义」，演化出了坚厚的果核，以对抗多多鸟砂囊，现在为了同样的理由，又需多多鸟砂囊的协助。谭波揭露了这种奇异的「互利共生」，可说为「自然史」添了新页。他的论证要点在于：calvaria树的果核必须经过研磨，种子才能发芽。今天有许多小型动物会采食calvaria树的果实，但是它们只是啃食果肉，根本不碰果核。多多鸟体型大，故能把整个果实吞下。果肉消化后，果核在砂囊中还会停留一段时间，然后才被呕出，或者在体积减少后通过消化道，随粪便排出。谭波还举出许多可做模拟的实例，它们显示种子在通过各种动物的消化道之后，发芽率会大幅上升。然后谭波设法估量多多鸟砂囊的挤压力量。他以得自现代鸟类的数据为基础，求出体重与砂囊的挤压力量的相关曲线，再以外插法得出多多鸟砂囊的挤压力量。谭波认为calvaria果核经得住多多鸟砂囊的「琢磨」，不会给压碎。典型的这种果核（最大直径约3公分），要磨去百分之三十的体积，多多鸟砂囊才能压碎。当然多多鸟也可能在果肉消化完之后便把果核呕出，或使果核进入肠道，使它根本无福消受砂囊的「马杀鸡」。谭波找了和多多鸟体态颇相似的火鸡作实验，把calvaria果核强塞入火鸡砂囊中，一次一个。一些果核可以停留在火鸡砂囊中6天之久，17个果核中有7个最后在砂囊中给压碎了。其它的10个不是被呕出，便是体积减小后排出体外。把这10个种到温室苗圃中，右3个发了芽。谭波指出：「这可能是三百年来第一批萌发了的calvaria树种子。」这个发现使毛里求斯岛上的calvaria树有可能逃过绝种的命运：只要把它们的果核适当地研磨之后，种子便能恢复生机。异议播报编辑谭波的论文刊出后，美国纽约时报和其它报刊立即广为报导，喧腾一时。时隔一年半，毛里求斯林务局专家奥塞达里博士（A. W. Owadally），在1979年三月三十日的「科学」上提出了反驳（vol.203, p.363～4）。他的论点如下：第一，calvaria树生长在高地雨林中（年降雨量约2,500～3,800公厘）。而根据荷兰人的记载，多多鸟出没于平原或丘陵地上，也就是说生活于较为干燥的森林中。因此多多鸟与calvaria树并不生存在同一个生态区位（niche）中。而毛里求斯在高地建储水池及引水道的挖掘工作，并未发现过任何多多鸟化石。第二，早已有人提到过在多多鸟化石中发现树木的种子，他们也谈过多多鸟或其它鸟类「协助」这些种子发芽的可能性，但是现在已经明白那些种子并不是calvaria树的。第三，使cakvaria树的种子不经鸟类的中介而发芽，毛里求斯林务局已研究了好几年，目前林务局苗圃中有9个月以上树龄的calvaria苗好几棵。第四，1941年的高地森林调查，发现那儿还有不少年轻的calvaria树（不满75或100岁），而多多鸟在1675年左右便绝种了。第五，1941年希尔（A.W.Hill）有一份报告（Ann. Bot., 5：587），显示calvaria树的种子能够突破核壳的封锁而发芽。答辩播报编辑谭波也不含糊，在同期的「科学」上立即提出了答辩（vol. 203, p.1364）：一、不可因为毛里求斯高地没有发现多多鸟化石，便断定多多鸟与calvaria树不生活在同一生态区位中。毛里求斯因为地形的缘故，高地并不会形成沉淀层。某些低的集水盆地发掘到的动物化石，有许多都是四周高地上冲积下来的。前人的纪录曾明白地指出，多多鸟会在高地上出没，有一位学者便利用过这些数据，来消除「多多鸟只在滨海地区活动」的印象。同时，毛里求斯过去的林务数据显示calvaria树并不只在高地生长；今天虽然高地才有森林，但就有一棵calvaria树位于海拔仅180公尺的高度。二、印度洋地区植物分类专家确曾在多多鸟化石遗址中发现calvaria树的果核。不过只光凭这一点，并不能证明多多鸟和calvaria树有互利共生的关系。且有互利共生关系的生物，本来就不一定要「死而同穴」的。三、毛里求斯林务局在最近才成功地使calvaria树的种子抽芽，奥华达里并没有提他们是怎么搞成的，或者他有难言之隐。原来他们的果核在种下之前先研磨过！四、关于现在仍活着的calvaria树的树龄，奥华达里引用的那份1941年的报告，说得并不清楚，因为鉴定树龄并不是很容易的。巧的是这份报告的作者之一所提供的意见（透过私人通信），正是谭波认为它们已超过三百岁的一个根据。五、希尔的报告并未描述他如何，或在什么情况下，使calvaria树的种子发芽；没有这些细节，这份报告便和目前所讨论的问题毫不相干。评论播报编辑除了第四点外，谭波的辩词极为有力。奥华达里若能证明现存的calvaria树有低于三百岁的，谭波的论证便不能成立。目前这样的证据既未出现，我们没有理由扣留谭波应得的掌声。让我们感到遗憾的是：几乎所有刊载过谭波第一篇论文的报刊，都没有做过追踪报导，它们有意无意地忽略了后来发生的辩论文字。我想这主要是它们的编辑重视「科学成果」的想法所致。一般人都以为科学是「追寻真理」的工作，「真理」一经寻得，永不改变，因此科学家的「成果」才是我们应注意的。笔者反对这种看法，理由有二。一、这种观点所依据的「真理」观过于天真。它忘记了科学史上充满了过去的真理的遗骸这一「事实」，也无视于「真理」这一概念所涉及的逻辑难题（若我们在从事研究之初，不能知道真理是什么，那我们在研究过程中，如何辨认真理；如果我们一开始便知道什么是真理，那是怎么知道的？）。二、这种观点扭曲了科学的本质。科学是一种扩展既有知识领域的活动，「既有的知识」永远是科学研究活动的起点。任何重要的科学成果都不仅是解决了一个问题而已（不论这问题有多重要），它还能引发值得进一步研究的问题。就多多鸟的例子而言，后续的辩论的确制造出了一些可以继续研究的问题，例如如何精确地断定树龄？同时，它们也提供了更多的「科学知识」。在辩论的脉络中出现的「知识」都是活生生的，一则也许平常看来毫不起眼的常识（如低地的化石也许是高地上冲积下来的），有可能在辩论中扮演画龙点睛的角色。因此从读者「知的权利」，以及大众传播媒介的教育责任来考虑，任何科学新闻都应做追踪报导。新手上路成长任务编辑入门编辑规则本人编辑我有疑问内容质疑在线客服官方贴吧意见反馈投诉建议举报不良信息未通过词条申诉投诉侵权信息封禁查询与解封©2024 Baidu 使用百度前必读 | 百科协议 | 隐私政策 | 百度百科合作平台 | 京ICP证030173号 京公网安备110000020000

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dodo, (Raphus cucullatus), extinct flightless bird of Mauritius (an island of the Indian Ocean), one of the three species that constituted the family Raphidae, usually placed with pigeons in the order Columbiformes but sometimes separated as an order (Raphiformes). The other two species, also found on islands of the Indian Ocean, were the solitaires (Raphus solitarius of Réunion and Pezophaps solitaria of Rodrigues). The birds were first seen by Portuguese sailors about 1507 and were exterminated by humans and their introduced animals. The dodo was extinct by 1681, the Réunion solitaire by 1746, and the Rodrigues solitaire by about 1790. The dodo is frequently cited as one of the most well-known examples of human-induced extinction and also serves as a symbol of obsolescence with respect to human technological progress.(Read E.O. Wilson’s Britannica essay on mass extinction.)

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What are the different types of extinction?The die-off of the dinosaurs is different from the extinction of the dodo.(more)See all videos for this articleThe dodo, bigger than a turkey, weighed about 23 kg (about 50 pounds). It had blue-gray plumage, a big head, a 23-cm (9-inch) blackish bill with reddish sheath forming the hooked tip, small useless wings, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly feathers high on its rear end. The Réunion solitaire may have been a white version of the dodo. The brownish Rodrigues solitaire was taller and more slender, with smaller head, short bill lacking the heavy hook, and wings with knobs. All that remains of the dodo is a head and foot at Oxford, a foot in the British Museum, a head in Copenhagen, and skeletons, more or less complete, in various museums of Europe, the United States, and Mauritius. Many bones of solitaires have also been preserved.

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What it would take to bring back the dodo

An audacious plan to ‘de-extinct’ dodos depends on huge leaps in biotechnology and resurrecting a lost habitat.

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A biotech company announced a bold effort to ‘de-extinct’ the dodo last week. The flightless birds vanished from the island of Mauritius — in the Indian Ocean — in the late seventeenth century, and became emblematic of humanity’s negative impacts on the natural world. Could the plan actually work?

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Avian palaeontologist Dr Julian Hume is rediscovering the dodo by introducing old bones to new technology.

Julian explains what went wrong for the dodo, why artists exaggerate and which other forgotten species died out alongside the bird.

What do we know about the dodo (and what don't we know)?

Despite its relatively recent extinction, the life history of the dodo continues to elude us. More is known about the dinosaurs - their population structure, nesting behaviour, eggs and young - than of a bird that disappeared relatively recently due to human interference.

The dodo lived solely in Mauritius and we know it was extinct by around 1680, less than 100 years after humans inhabited its island home. But we don't know exactly how it got there in the first place, how it evolved, how big it grew or how it behaved.

You spent five years creating a virtual 3D model of a dodo. Why was that so important?

There is only one near-complete dodo skeleton that exists, consisting of bones from just one bird, and it has remained unstudied until the twenty-first century.

It is extremely rare and valuable, and it is housed in the Durban Natural Science Museum.

We recreated the whole bird in 3D with laser surface scanning technology. This is the first piece of research to show accurate proportions in the bird's body. It also describes several previously unknown bones of the skeleton, including knee caps and ankle and wrist bones.

It allows scientists to examine the skeleton without having to visit it, or risking damage to the precious specimen.

 

How will the model be used in the future?

The key thing about this model is it's based on a complete skeleton of just one bird. It means that any measurements you take from it are proportionally correct.

The next step in reconstructing this extinct animal is the creation of animatronics, or robots. But to work out exactly how the dodo moved, we need to know these exact measurements. Then we can work out how the muscles worked inside the body.

The dodo was a giant ground pigeon, unlike anything living today. As we can't make comparisons, we have to rely on maths and measurements.

We do know it moved quickly, and sailors reported that it had something a little odd about its movements. It will be fascinating to look into the dodo's lifestyle more closely.

Dr Hume worked with a team at the Durban Natural History Museum to create the first detailed description of dodo anatomy for 150 years © Leon Claessens, MMC

 

How long has it taken science to get to this point?

Richard Owen, the inaugural director of the Museum, rose to fame in 1866 when he first described the dodo.

The composite skeleton he put together is still at the Museum, in the Treasures Cadogan Gallery.

Our digital model was finished in 2016. There have been no major new discoveries during the 150 years in between.

There have been hundreds of papers and books on the dodo in that period, but they haven't told us much that we didn't know from Owen's time.

This is because we have very few remains to work with and they're scattered in museums across the world. My work teases out little new snippets of information from the bones that we do have left.

There are so few complete dodo skeletons that we may never know exactly what they looked like or how they lived. This Museum specimen is a composite made from bones from different individuals.

 

For a long time it was assumed that dodos were fat and stupid.  Where did that come from?

The first illustrations of the dodo were by mariners visiting Mauritius - they showed a slim, athletic bird.

Over the following decades the image changed. Each illustrator wanted to make it bigger, fatter and more grotesque than previous work, just to sell the story. Most of these illustrations appeared in popular books and articles.

In the paintings of the time, artists tended to make newly discovered animals look like bits of meat on legs.

It was the same with the dodo - they wanted it to be more spectacular than any bird that came before.

Analysis of the dodo's anatomy shows that it was actually very well-adapted to living in Mauritius.

CT scans of skulls in the Museum's collection show that dodos were relatively intelligent birds, with large brains. They also had large olfactory bulbs, which process smells. Given their inability to fly, it suggests their brain was well-suited to sniffing out food on the ground.

An oil painting from 1626, depicting the dodo as a very round and fat bird. We now know they were much slimmer.

 

Will we find out more about the lifestyles of the birds?

Unless we find new accounts, how the dodo lived is a mystery.

Perhaps recreating the dodo in the distant future using DNA will be the only way we'll ever know for sure.

We do know more about the whole ecosystem that disappeared alongside them. There were huge numbers of insects that became extinct as well.

For instance, specialist dung beetles in Mauritius fed on dodo dung. They died out at the same time as the dodos. Some wasp species also disappeared when the forest was cut down, along with many bird species.

Lots of people don't consider that when they think about the dodo.

Dr Julian Hume's reconstruction of what Mauritius could have looked like in the time of the dodo © Julian Hume

 

Why was the dodo only found in Mauritius?

We are using DNA sequencing to pin down the dodo's relationship to other birds.

At some point, an ancestral relative of the dodo would have had to fly to get to Mauritius - it then evolved once it got there.

The ancestral pigeon lost its ability to fly because it had no natural predators, there was plenty of food on the ground and flying is very energy-intensive. The species then became perfectly adapted to the Mauritian ecosystem.

Its downfall came when humans arrived on the island and brought a host of competing animals that quickly overran the region.

The dodo had evolved in isolation for millions of years and was unable to adapt to this new change.

Knowing more about the ecological history of Mauritius may reveal new information about the evolutionary history of this fascinating species.

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Museum research collections hold close to a million bird specimens, representing more than 95% of the world's known bird species. 

See highlights from the collections in an online exhibition, in a collaboration between the Museum and Google Arts & Culture.

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