Sid's right front tooth was slightly bigger than the left, similar to his right eye, which was also somewhat bigger than the left, both eyes of which were pale green. Calling out to the others that intruders had come, Dab was not looking where was going and continued calling out until he fell into a smouldering pit, being burned to death.ĭab was a foolish dodo, like others of his kind, that intended to prepare for the oncoming ice ages by gathering food, but was distracted as well, as he did not look where he was headed and fell into a smoldering pit. Sid was built along the form typical of ground sloths, short, brushy tail, clawed hands and feet, a long thin neck, ovular head with bulbous eye on both sides and a pair of buckteeth. Dodos were medium-sized birds that lived during the ice ages, They appear as minor antagonists in Ice Age. The dodo was a flightless bird that lived on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean. It also appears in most of the Ice Age films & games, as minor characters used for comedy. The species died out before 1700, less than a hundred years after encountering men. Later, Dab returned to his flock, leaving the melon in the stockpile with two others and spotted Manny, accompanied by a ground sloth named Sid and a Saber-tooth Tiger named Diego. The Doofy Dodo trope as used in popular culture. The dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Dab snatched the melon away from the mammoth's grip and made off with it, squawking at Manny before he left the scene. Awesome illustrations accompany carefully leveled text about food, habitat, life cycle, and threats, bringing dodos to life like never before. Dodos were strange, flightless ice age birds that became extinct in the 1700s. The answer depends on what youre willing to accept as 'de-extinction.' If you mean a pigeon born with some passenger pigeon traits, or an elephant born with mammoth-like traits, it could happen. One dodo among a great flock of others, Dab was out to find food as a scout.ĭab was out foraging for food to return to his flock as part of a stockpile for the oncoming ice age, and found one melon not far from where his flock was, in the grip of a mammoth named Manny. Dodos (Ice Age Animals) Paperback January 1, 2015.
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