![]() I worked in an office and time-travelled to the distant ancient island many times a day and thought it was a beautiful, meditative and motivating experience. The dodo fitted there so well that I thought this was the real dodo Island. I received a model of a dodo bird and put it on the island. So I took my old Unit圓D game engine sketches of tropical maps and started working on those. It was a pleasure to create something that was tropical during this cold and dark weather. ![]() ![]() When I settled back in Finland, the snow and dark weather was surrounding the houses. So came this idea to create a Dodo Adventure Series VR experience. ![]() It was easy to imagine dodos wandering here in the 1600s Starting to develop the Dodo Adventures experience Perhaps even more real than in the book of Alice Wonderland or in a movie called “Ice Age 1”. I was thinking that perhaps it was possible to see the dodo in “real life” again. However, the lack of information and quite unclear disappearance of the dodo bird gave food for my imagination. Of course I couldn’t know, because there was not that much information or log info about dodos and their natural habitat. Just outside of the museum there were trees and flat ground and I was thinking that a few hundreds years back, there were many dodo nests around that area. The skeleton looked so real that it was easy to imagine real dodos wandering around the island with a big beak and a quite chubby body. Tortoise in Rodrigues island Visiting the Mauritius dodo museumīack in Mauritius island, I visited a museum which had a full size dodo skeleton. As sad as the old story is, some people are trying to get new species of tortoises back to Rodrigues island, which is bringing some hope to animal conservation and might in a long run resurrect the island back to its “normal state”. Meeting on of the Giant Tortoises in Rodrigues 2018 The endemic tortoise species that once wandered in Rodrigues island were extinct, because the sailors in the past realized that tortoises lived very long in a boat without much water and food. I visited a place in Rodrigues where they tried to resurrect some tortoise species that were common in some other islands in the Indian Ocean. Île aux Cerfs beach in Mauritius 2018 Meeting giant turtles Before this post, I wrote another blog post called: “ Mauritius spill affects fishermen – my experience at Mauritius part #1“. It felt like a paradise and it was easy to imagine these islands to have many different endemic animals living there once. The heat was quite strong and the tropical wind with oceanic smell was quite distinctive. These tropical paradises were both exciting and inspiring and parts of those islands were teeming with life, especially in nature parks. In 2018, I visited Mauritius Island and Rodrigues Island which is about a two hour flight from Mauritius to the east. Calling out to the others that intruders had come, Dab was not looking where was going and continued calling out until he fell into a smouldering pit, being burned to death.ĭab was a foolish dodo, like others of his kind, that intended to prepare for the oncoming ice ages by gathering food, but was distracted as well, as he did not look where he was headed and fell into a smoldering pit.This is the story behind Dodo Adventures. Later, Dab returned to his flock, leaving the melon in the stockpile with two others and spotted Manny, accompanied by a ground sloth named Sid and a Saber-tooth Tiger named Diego. Dab snatched the melon away from the mammoth's grip and made off with it, squawking at Manny before he left the scene. One dodo among a great flock of others, Dab was out to find food as a scout.ĭab was out foraging for food to return to his flock as part of a stockpile for the oncoming ice age, and found one melon not far from where his flock was, in the grip of a mammoth named Manny.
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