Rodrigues solitaire
pezophaps solitaria latin

If Dodos were this light, the Rodrigues solitaire may have been larger.

One observer described the Rodrigues Solitaire as the size of a swan.

Observations of the Rodrigues Solitaire indicate that they were highly territorial.

It was named after the Rodrigues solitaire.

Several contemporary accounts state that the Rodrigues Solitaire used gizzard stones.

The size of a swan, the Rodrigues Solitaire demonstrated pronounced sexual dimorphism.

The Rodrigues Solitaire laid a single egg, that was incubated in turn by both sexes.

The Rodrigues Solitaire probably became extinct sometime between the 1730s and 1760s; the exact date is unknown.

Some believed the solitaire of the old descriptions was rather a species similar to the Rodrigues Solitaire.

Leguat devoted three pages of his memoirs to the Rodrigues Solitaire, and was clearly impressed by the bird.

From there he sent his brother a number of specimens, including the Dodo and the Rodrigues Solitaire, both already extinct.

Several of Leguat's observations were later confirmed through study of subfossil Rodrigues Solitaire remains.

The most detailed account of the reproductive habits of the Rodrigues Solitaire is Leguat's.

Rodrigues Solitaire (extinct)

The fact that the Rodrigues Solitaire laid only one egg, fed on fruits, was monogamous and cared for its nestlings also supported this relationship.

Leguat stated that the Rodrigues Solitaire fed on dates, whereas Tafforet mentioned seeds and leaves.

In spite of this, some later scholars doubted Leguat's story, and the existence of the Rodrigues Solitaire.

They dissected the only known Dodo specimen with soft tissue, comparing it with the few Rodrigues Solitaire remains then available.

The lack of mammalian herbivores competing for resources on these islands allowed the Rodrigues Solitaire and the Dodo to attain large size.

Many skeletal features of the Rodrigues Solitaire and Dodo that are unique among pigeons have evolved to adapt to flightlessness.

The 2002 study indicated that the ancestors of the Rodrigues Solitaire and the Dodo diverged around the Paleogene-Neogene boundary.

The Rodrigues Solitaire shared traits with the Dodo, its closest relative, such as size and features in the skull, pelvis and sternum.

The extinct Dodo and Rodrigues Solitaire comprised a family, Raphidae, which was endemic to Mauritius.

Since the Réunion Ibis is believed to have gone extinct by this date, the bird may actually have been a Rodrigues Solitaire.

The Rodrigues Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) is an extinct, flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

After dissecting the preserved head and foot of the specimen at the Oxford University Museum and comparing it with the few remains then available of the extinct Rodrigues Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) they found that the two were closely related.