Editing Dodo (section)

=== Dodos transported abroad ===
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|image1 = Hoefnagel dodo.jpg
|alt1 = Painting of a slender, brownish dodo

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|footer = Painting of a possibly stuffed specimen in the collection of [[Emperor Rudolph II]] in Prague, by [[Jacob Hoefnagel]], early 1600s (left), and [[Adriaen van de Venne]]'s 1626 depiction of a dodo he claimed to have seen in [[Amsterdam]]
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The dodo was found interesting enough that living specimens were sent to Europe and the East. The number of transported dodos that reached their destinations alive is uncertain, and it is unknown how they relate to contemporary depictions and the few non-fossil remains in European museums. Based on a combination of contemporary accounts, paintings, and specimens, Julian Hume has inferred that at least eleven transported dodos reached their destinations alive.{{sfn|Cheke|Hume|2008|pp=81–83}}

Hamon L'Estrange's description of a dodo that he saw in London in 1638 is the only account that specifically mentions a live specimen in Europe. In 1626 [[Adriaen van de Venne]] drew a dodo that he claimed to have seen in Amsterdam, but he did not mention if it was alive, and his depiction is reminiscent of Savery's ''Edwards's Dodo''. Two live specimens were seen by Peter Mundy in Surat, India, between 1628 and 1634, one of which may have been the individual painted by Mansur around 1625.<ref name=Hume2006/> In 1628, Emmanuel Altham visited Mauritius and sent a letter to his brother in England:

{{quotation|Right wo and lovinge brother, we were ordered by ye said councell to go to an island called Mauritius, lying in 20d. of south latt., where we arrived ye 28th of May; this island having many goates, hogs and cowes upon it, and very strange fowles, called by ye portingalls Dodo, which for the rareness of the same, the like being not in ye world but here, I have sent you one by Mr. Perce, who did arrive with the ship William at this island ye 10th of June. [In the margin of the letter] Of Mr. Perce you shall receive a jarr of ginger for my sister, some beades for my cousins your daughters, and a bird called a Dodo, if it live.{{sfn|Fuller|2002|p=60}}}}

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|image1 = Roelant Savery - Landscape with Birds - WGA20885.jpg
|alt1 = Painting of a forest filled with birds, including a dodo

|image2 = Preening Dodo.jpg
|alt2 = Painting of a dodo preening its foot

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|image4 = Orpheus Charming the Animals with His Music by Roelant Savery Mauritshuis 157.jpg
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|image5 = Roelant Savery - The Paradise - WGA20896.jpg
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|image6 = The Temptation of Saint Anthony with dodo.jpg
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|footer = Savery paintings featuring dodos in various corners (one with a lobster's body, lower right), painted in Europe approximately between 1625 and 1629
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Whether the dodo survived the journey is unknown, and the letter was destroyed by fire in the 19th century.{{sfn|Fuller|2002|p=60}}
The earliest known picture of a dodo specimen in Europe is from a {{circa|lk=no|1610}} collection of paintings depicting animals in the royal menagerie of [[Emperor Rudolph II]] in Prague. This collection includes paintings of other Mauritian animals as well, including a red rail. The dodo, which may be a juvenile, seems to have been dried or embalmed, and had probably lived in the emperor's zoo for a while together with the other animals. That whole stuffed dodos were present in Europe indicates they had been brought alive and died there; it is unlikely that taxidermists were on board the visiting ships, and spirits were not yet used to preserve biological specimens. Most [[tropical]] specimens were preserved as dried heads and feet.{{sfn|Cheke|Hume|2008|pp=81–83}}

One dodo was reportedly sent as far as [[Nagasaki]], Japan, in 1647, but it was long unknown whether it arrived.{{sfn|Cheke|Hume|2008|p=38}} Contemporary documents first published in 2014 proved the story, and showed that it had arrived alive. It was meant as a gift, and, despite its rarity, was considered of equal value to a white deer and a [[bezoar]] stone. It is the last recorded live dodo in captivity.<ref name=Winters2014>{{cite journal |last1=Winters|first1=R. |last2=Hume|first2=J. P. |title=The dodo, the deer and a 1647 voyage to Japan |journal=Historical Biology |volume=27 |issue=2 |page=1 |year=2014 |doi= 10.1080/08912963.2014.884566|s2cid=86077963 }}</ref>