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dodo (bird)  

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  • In louis carroll's Alice in Wonderland, a fictional Dodo bird leads a “caucus race” in which everybody wins a prize. The real Dodo, first discovered on the then-uninhabited island of Mauritius in the 1500s by Dutch and Portuguese sailors, was a loser in the race of survival. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Dodo Bird]

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