Dodo Club

The Dodo Club is the children's wing of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust based in Jersey, Channel Islands.

The main focus of the club is environmental awareness and citizen science projects among younger members of the Trust. The Dodo Club is so named because the logo of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a dodo, chosen by the founder Gerald Durrell as a reminder of man's wanton environmental destruction.

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Dodo

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Its closest genetic relative was the also extinct Rodrigues solitaire, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae of the family of pigeons and doves. The closest extant relative of the dodo is the Nicobar pigeon. A white dodo was once thought to have existed on the nearby island of Réunion, but this is now thought to have been confusion based on the Réunion ibis and paintings of white dodos.

Subfossil remains show the dodo was about 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) tall and may have weighed 10.6–21.1 kg (23–47 lb) in the wild. The dodo's appearance in life is evidenced only by drawings, paintings, and written accounts from the 17th century. Because these vary considerably, and because only some illustrations are known to have been drawn from live specimens, its exact appearance in life remains unresolved. Similarly, little is known with certainty about its habitat and behaviour. It has been depicted with brownish-grey plumage, yellow feet, a tuft of tail feathers, a grey, naked head, and a black, yellow, and green beak. It used gizzard stones to help digest its food, which is thought to have included fruits, and its main habitat is believed to have been the woods in the drier coastal areas of Mauritius. One account states its clutch consisted of a single egg. It is presumed that the dodo became flightless because of the ready availability of abundant food sources and a relative absence of predators on Mauritius.

M2 Group

M2 Group Ltd is an Australian retailer and wholesaler of telecommunications services as well as power, gas and insurance products.

History

Established in 1999, M2 Group Ltd (“M2”, ASX: MTU) is a provider of a range of communication, utility and insurance services to Australian households and small businesses. Headquartered in Melbourne, M2 has more than 3000 employees in Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. At M2's 2013 Annual General Meeting, shareholders voted to change the Company's name from M2 Telecommunications Group Ltd to M2 Group Ltd.

M2’s business segment includes the Commander and Engin brands, offering a suite of traditional and managed voice and data services and equipment.

Consumer division

The consumer segment, under the brands of Dodo and iPrimus, offers Australian consumers telecommunications services, energy and insurance

Wholesale division

Through the M2 Wholesale division, the firm provides wholesale fixed line, mobile and data telecommunications services to small and medium-sized telecommunications service providers and Internet Service Providers.

Dodo (automobile company)

The DODO (spelled all caps.) was a cyclecar built in 1912, in Detroit, Michigan.

History

The DODO was designed by a young engineer named Karl Probst. It was a two-seater tandem cyclecar. The prototype had a 56" tread, but Probst wanted to slim it to 32". However, a production vehicle never was made. Later, Probst became one of the principal engineers in development of the WWII Jeep while working at the American Bantam company.

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