Bad Bungle
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There are two boxes of Dodo bones from the Mare aux Songes in southeast Mauritius at the Grant Museum of Zoology (UCL) in London. Apparently no stuffed dodos remain in any collections as the last two were lost to fire and attack from museum pests, although there are some mock-ups. On the excellent Grant Museum blog (Specimen of the week 200), it was revealed that the Dodo case was one of the most popular exhibitions gauged by the “filth left on the glass by visitors scale”. Jack Ashby (former Curator) also wrote about whether Dodo bones belong in a Museum after two bones were sold at auction into private hands for £30,000 in 2013.
Interesting snippet in the Mail at that time "In 1886 George Clarke went to Mauritius, the only place the dodo is said to have lived, and hired slaves to wade through a swamp and feel for the bones with their feet"
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/grant-museum-zoology/dodo-bones
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/tag/dodo/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...-flightless-DODO-set-sell-30-000-auction.html
Interesting snippet in the Mail at that time "In 1886 George Clarke went to Mauritius, the only place the dodo is said to have lived, and hired slaves to wade through a swamp and feel for the bones with their feet"
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/grant-museum-zoology/dodo-bones
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/tag/dodo/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...-flightless-DODO-set-sell-30-000-auction.html