How did they taste? Dropping a few on islands across the Indian Ocean as a way to grab an easy meal might work, given we literally hunted them to extinction.
They tasted terrible, apparently.
How did they taste? Dropping a few on islands across the Indian Ocean as a way to grab an easy meal might work, given we literally hunted them to extinction.
They tasted terrible, apparently.
Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop.I have a short story in a collection of 'oddball fiction' that has surviving dodos... sorta. The narrator of the story runs across a woman who recognized a painting of a dodo he was perusing, mentions her family had had them on her farm (in the USA) when she was a girl. After some investigation, the narrator finds that the woman's distant ancestor had visited Mauritius and thought that dodos were neat for some reason, and brought some birds and eggs to America. His descendants continued to raise them after he died, keeping it a family tradition. As the narrator tracked down the story, he found the abandoned farm and piles of dodo skeletons and egg shells. At the end, in a bizarre twist, one of the last ancestors years before had been appointed to some business position in Mauritius... and he sold the farm and butchered all the dodos for one last grand feast...
How did they taste? Dropping a few on islands across the Indian Ocean as a way to grab an easy meal might work, given we literally hunted them to extinction.
Pretty interesting storyUgly Chickens by Howard Waldrop.
Welcome to the site!Hi everyone. Sorry but I don't understand what would change if Dodo was still alive? Is it an important bird or what? It doesn't look beautiful for me so I wouldn't domesticate it like pet or so.
Specifics? Was it gamey, or chewy? So juicy it loterally dribbles down your chin with each bite? I have jeard that about wallabee.
While I got no specifics and descriptions do vary (although those might be due to a different cooking method) there were sailors who had been on ship rations for several months, desperate to finally eat something else - but then didn't like the taste of Dodo meat.
How does ostrich taste?
This has been successfully done before to breed houbara bustards (endangered ground birds which have a very specific reproductive cycle and have thus far not been able to be captive-bred) using chickens as a proxy species, and there are plans by a private organization to use this method to resurrect the passenger pigeon using the closely-related band-tailed pigeon as a proxy.
There is no reason that this method would not work on dodos if one could assemble a composite genome from the remains we have, though the technology is far more theoretical than cloning and there aren't really any living birds that could foster the chicks (or for that matter, existing knowledge as to how to raise them - incubation time and specifics, what to feed chicks, etc.) So possible, but hard and demanding a lot of trial and error.