The Dodo Blog

DuckCake and Duckgrilled pancakemess dodo pancakes created and photographed by dr_loplop.

A Dodo In Grand-Bay, photo by Delicious Mauritious.

Dodo: This was made by prisoners, and appeared in a display of “scarecrow art”. Picture by Robert Grant.

The dodos drink too! Ok, they don’t (didn’t), but they are they are in the logo of a beer from Réunion Bière Bourbon, also known as “La Dodo”. It’s a “blonde beer” (sorry if I’m wrong but I don’t know about beers, specially in English) produced and commercialized in Réunion by Bourbon breweries, where it’s the first product, the most known and the most bribed. Bière Bourbon has this nick/ surname, La Dodo, in reference to the bird from Mauritius island which is extinct and appears in the logo, as a smiling dodo. (From the Wikipedia article, and sorry about any problems on this translation)

From the English article:

The Brasseries de Bourbon (“Breweries of Bourbon”) is the only major producer of beer on Réunion Island, a French oversea department in the Indian Ocean formerly known as Bourbon Island.

The group was founded in 1962. The first product of the brasseries, and by far now their most sold and widely known, is the blonde lager Dodo, named after the now extinct bird (its official name is simply “Bourbon”). This beer is widely known because of its emblem of a smiling dodo, and the creole slogan La dodo lé la (The Dodo is here!), both displayed in colourful wall paintings on shops, snacks etc. selling the beer.

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Occasionally the neanderthal would go off and paint. That’s a carved wood dodo bird in the foreground.

Dodo bird as religious icon.

The Dodo bird as religious icon are from the set Jesus Reads to A Neanderthal by Daren Rabinovich (I think) at the Low Gallery, photographed by Christina.

Dodo statue on The Gerald Durrel Zoo in Jersey, photo taken by Victor Keech.

PCAGOE Sept. Challenge – Pickwick created by Amy. I decided to take my inspiration from Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series. Pickwick is the cloned pet dodo of the main character, Thursday. Pickwick is pretty dense, has no wings, and loves marshmallows.

Dodo Cromo from Nacional de Chocolates by Mauricio Giraldo.

Dodo Supermarket in London, photographed by Andrew Warran.

Dodo bird crochet with books by Lindsay. She probably created it following the patterns of this Mauritius Dodo Crochet.