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The dodo was not so slim: leg dimensions and scaling to body mass

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  1. Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR 5242, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, 69364, Lyon Cedex 07, France

    Antoine Louchart

  2. Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR 5276, 2 rue Dubois, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    Cécile Mourer-Chauviré

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Correspondence to Antoine Louchart.

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We dedicate this short note to Bradley C. Livezey, ornithologist devoted to research on avian evolution and ecomorphology–which included studies on the dodo and solitaire–who died prematurely in February 2011.

This is a comment on Angst et al. (2011) The end of the fat dodo? A new mass estimate for Raphus cucullatus. Naturwissenschaften 98: 233–236.

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Louchart, A., Mourer-Chauviré, C. The dodo was not so slim: leg dimensions and scaling to body mass. Naturwissenschaften 98, 357–358 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-011-0771-6

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