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Best matches for dodo?
Topic Started: Feb 12 2014, 11:25 AM (2,564 Views)
Ausar
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The title basically explains the purpose of the thread. What animals are suitable opponents for Raphus cucullatus (dodo)? They're not good fighters and I was wondering what animals wouldn't make a fight with them one-sided.
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kingkazma
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a main coon?
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Hatzegopteryx
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Turkey, although a bit small.
Edited by Hatzegopteryx, Feb 25 2014, 02:52 AM.
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Scalesofanubis
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A pug with a really especially low prey drive?
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Hatzegopteryx
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The Dodo is supposedly ~10-18kg, so we need something around that range that doesn't have very impressive weaponry.
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Hatzegopteryx
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Dodos are like 10-18kg but Turkeys are smaller than that. They have no impressive weaponry advantages over eachother so I don't think that was a well-thought match.
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Hatzegopteryx
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But they lack weaponry to kill the Dodo, aggressiveness doesn't mean it would kill an animal bigger than itself.
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http://books.google.com/books?id=HSwj4lDNq4QC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=dodo+beak+defense&source=bl&ots=YuhxtHn2yb&sig=wAt8ul34h_Ss4AN0j1nAOCYfhEA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H7ILU4SLMee-sQTF-YAg&ved=0CEoQ6AEwDQ#v=onepage&q=dodo%20beak%20defense&f=false.


Apparently dodos could have used their beaks for defense when needed.
Edited by Ausar, Feb 25 2014, 06:52 AM.
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Hatzegopteryx
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Well, most canids, felids and other predators would be a bit one-sided when put against a Dodo, and would win at least comfortably, so this is a tought question.
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A chihuahua or a fennec fox?
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A Saltie.
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Ausar
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Obviously they wouldn't fare well against predators (and most definitely predators that rival it in size).

I was thinking more along the lines of birds that aren't exactly predatory but still have at least SOME fighting capacity or something.
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A robber crab...or a thorn bush lol
I was serious about the robet crab though.
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How about a small monitor lizard?
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