Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: |
Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No |
Copyright Date: 2007
Available in French: No
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When Dutch sailors arrived on the island of Mauritius in 1602 they were greeted by an unknown, turkey-sized flightless bird. They called it Dodo. Then they tried eating it. Within 80 years the dodo was gone. The first celebrity extinction notorious for its non-existence it was the first animal to be so effortlessly wiped out by the interference of humans. Through a series of quirky pieces of advice for animals worried about their future, the dodo reveals his tenpoint plan for avoiding extinction. Uniquely, the advice is delivered by the dodo himself. His invaluable insights include: steer clear of humans, don't live on islands, go at it like rabbits, be lucky. Don't worry: extinction might not be forever. Across the world cloning technology is being used to resurrect extinct species. Some like the Pyrenean lynx have only been extinct for a few years. Others, like the dodo itself, have been gone for much longer. |
