>>12710813I'm glad you asked. It is special - maybe even MOST special - because it stands for a certain principle in evolution and in ethics. The dodo bird is amongst the most r-selected creatures to ever live. It has a face so neotenic that it resembles the foetus of a nicuarguan pigeon, its closest living relative. It is a fat plump dummy with no concept of predators, to the point where dutch sailors report catching dodos by just walking up and scooping them off the ground. How do you catch even more dodo birds? Well simply take hold of the one you've already caught and give him a good squeeze. When he squawks in surprise and discomfort, his fellow dodos, completely heedless of the possibility of predation, will emerge from the undergrowth curious to see what all the squawking is about. They are like cute, helpless, talentless feathery babies. They would be the ultimate pet and it is a moral duty of powerful, K selected mankind to to around and create a comfy niche in existence for God's most vulnerable and cuddly creation.
