Hello everyone, welcome back to Relax with Animal Facts. I am Steph Wolf and today we are going to be

learning about some of our furry, scaly, or slimy friends, or in the case of today's episode

on this exclusive Patreon episode, which if you're listening to on Spotify or iTunes or

wherever you're listening, I'm going to be just be releasing

a teaser for you just to see what it's all about. Today we are actually going to be covering

things that are not going to be on the normal podcast, which are animals that have already

gone extinct. And today is the very special dodo bird, an animal that a lot of people hold very dear to their hearts,

and it's been used in culture a lot.

So without any more delay, let's get right into the show.

So I got my facts this time from Thoughtco.com, soft schools.com and facts.

Fact.net is a very broad kind of website title domain, but it seemed to have done the trick just fine.

So the dodo bird is, I'll talk about my personal kind of experience with it.

I've heard it referenced so many times. I've learned about it, I think, in school.

I'm not sure whether that was elementary or high school, but I'm sure almost all of us have heard of the infamous Dodo bird.

So as those of you who are watching this through the Patreon,

you can see that I have a quarantine haircut right now,

one that I did myself.

So if you're curious, that is what is going on up there.

But let's just get into the Dodo Bird rather than Steph Wolves' hair, okay?

So the Dodo Bird lived on the island of, hopefully I pronounce this right, Moridius.

And Moridius was an island kind of off the, kind of close to Madagascar, of course close being a very relative term.

So during the, so this is kind of the origination story of Dodo birds.

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