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Meet The Closest Living Relative To The Extinct Dodo Bird With Incredibly Colorful Iridescent Feathers

@elodieunderglass a VERY important birb

@schompie

They’re pretty and all, but Nicobar Pigeons are dumb as rocks. At my old work we had several of them free roaming in the rainforest pyramid, basically a ten story, several acre greenhouse filled with tropical plants and animals.

Multiple times I watched the nicobars slip and fall into one of the several small, shallow streams on the ground of the pyramid, then embarrassedly hop out and shake themselves off.