h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If you did change the name, you would probably need to do a small amount of rewriting on the first paragraph

"Rodriguez, Réunion, and Mauritius: Biomes Gone Bad"...another suggestion.

What you have written is a very interesting picture of what happens when a bird evolves in an environment with no enemies and then runs into man. It reminds me of the Gooney birds of Midway. Gooney Birds are fun to watch. They are great fliers but have mid-air collisions. The also have to run to take off and often stumble and crash on both take-off and landing. During mating season they dance for days with heads thrown back, chests out, bills clacking and singing. Later the baby birds are huge balls of fluff. If you approach the nests they get excited and thow up on your shoes. They fly away for years and come back to nest in exactly the same spot. This can be inconvenient if a runway has been constucted since they then nest on the runway. They are great navigators. Gooney birds are also known as Albatross.

Darn...I was looking at the original "edited" Dodo enntry rather than
TiT's more comprehensive entry..However the suggestion to change the focus to the islands and still include the interesting information about the birds still seems a way that you could differentiate these entries. I need a nap.

Traveller in Time splitting things up
"I try to stick to the focus of how little we know about them (though I already drifted away)

I also think what I write does not have to be the update for the original entry. The original entry is more about the cultural image we have about these birds.

As I proposed before: write an entry about the cultural side of the birds, I have done some researchfor that already, but be my guest in trying
< A3867375 >, some collected stuff"

Hmmm ... move the focus ... sounds good.

I just did an article on a hopefully-won't-go-extinct lemur (the aya-aye), and what DO we know about these islands, anyway? Interesting.

Right now I'm opening a belly dance studio, so I won't have much time right now; that'll give me time to ponder what I'd like to do.

Thanks guys!