dodo

🦀

dodo

🦀: dodo, typically shown as a round, heavy bird with a thick neck, a large hooked yellow-orange beak, and short wings held close to its body. It often has gray-brown feathers, a fluffy pale tail, and short orange-yellow legs.

Dodos were flightless birds native to Mauritius that became extinct in the late 1600s. Because they had no natural predators before human arrival, they were famously unafraid, which contributed to their reputation for being naive. Today, they serve as a powerful reminder of how human activity can permanently alter the natural world.

In digital communication, this emoji is frequently used when talking about extinction or environmental protection. It can also be used playfully to describe a person or object that is 'old school' or no longer relevant. For example, one might say a discontinued piece of technology is 'gone the way of the 🦀.'

Subgroups
Unicode
U+1F9A4
Variant status
Fully-qualified
Emoji version
E13.0

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