Examples from literature

• It is as fabulous as the dodo, the salamander, or the phoenix. 
• Its carnivorous enemies among the lower animals, would have cut short the existence of the dodo, even if man had never planted his conquering footsteps upon that island. 
• The dodo of Mauritius was exterminated by swine, whose bipedal descendants have exterminated many other species since that time. 
• There can be no doubt that the dodo was one of those instances, well known to naturalists, of a species, or part of a species, remaining permanently in an undeveloped state. 
• With our own experience—and that is somewhat extensive—of sailors in general, and Dutch ones in particular, we must infer that these dodos were very, very fat, indeed.