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Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into this episode of The Aftermath.

Today we'll be speaking with guest expert Dr. Julian Hume, avian paleontologist,

artist specializing in reconstruction of extinct species and co-author of the critically acclaimed book Lost Land of the Dodo.

Let's hear what he has to say about the extinction of the dodo bird.

Hi Julian, thank you so much for joining us today.

No problem at all.

Now you have a very specific area of expertise. Can you explain to our listeners what it is you

specialize in?

Right, well I'm actually something called an avian paleontologist which is a bit of a mouthful and actually means someone who studies old birds or bird bones in particular and

I'm a research associate at the Natural History Museum in London and I'm a research associate at the Natural History Museum in London and I

specialise in island birds and particularly island bird extinctions and one of the

most famous birds of them all the Dodo bird from Mauritius.

So tell us about your experience, you know, or your relationship to the Dodo bird.

Why did you start researching the bird?

When I graduated from university, all of my pals were doing sort of local paleo works, in other words, digging

fossils around the miserable south coast of the UK and so on and I decided that I would specialise in any

extinct birds that came from tropical islands so I could get some sun, tan, cocktails and all that

stuff and what better place to go than Mauritius where the

Dodo once lived. So yeah you you you saw an opportunity let's just say. I was always interested in Mauritius in particular that's the

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