I don’t imagine that diddling with DNA is all that exciting. And I’d be willing to toss in ten or twenty bucks for extracting and diddling with DNA from dodo skeletons. That would take a great deal more diddling because you’d only get short sequences, which would have to be strung together.
BTW, if it’s an adult male, would we only be able to get males? I know birds don’t do X and Y, but don’t remember any details.
Who would declare it an endangered species, and who would seize it?
There really aren’t any global Conservation Cops, so what would happen would depend a great deal on which country you’re in.
Who are we kidding. If you are in the U.S., it’s getting seized, baby.
Birds have what is called a ZW sex determination system Males have two Z chromosomes, while females are ZW. So if the bird was a male, you couldn’t clone females from it.
No doubt it could be done extralegally. But what would be the legal basis?
And as I said, it wouldn’t necessarily be seized in another country.
I believe that refered to the dodo doing the diddling. Just what are your intentions towards this dodo, Czarcasm? :dubious:
“404 Not Found”, which seems rather apt.
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Thanks. Now to read the link.
Well we’re in THIS COUNTRY. Where they do all sorts of stuff “extralegally”. That bird will be called a terrorist threat or some shit and that would be that.
The last living one was nearly traded for a ‘Pirate of the Year’ award - the queen was not amused with the Pirate Captain when he changed his mind.
Nobody said anything about it being in another country. The legal basis for seizing it in this country can be found in the Endangered Species Act., for various reason found in that link.
The OP said nothing about it being in the United States, either.
I am quite familiar with the Endangered Species Act. I should not have to point out that the Dodo is not on the US Endangered Species List, nor on any other existing endangered species list. Without an official listing, there would be no legal basis for seizure of a bird or any other action.
It’s usually a time consuming process to get a species officially listed in the US, and it is especially difficult to get non-native species on the list. While it might eventually be listed, at the present moment it is not illegal to be in possession of a Dodo in the United States.
Likewise the species is not currently listed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). While the species could be added to the list, enforcement depends on national laws. These laws are often weak or non-existent even in countries that have signed the treaty.
We had just this problem recently in trying to prevent the exportation of pygmy sloths from Panama. Since the species had only been described recently, it wasn’t on any official protected list.
My house backs up to a neighborhood park with a drainage ditch running through it. It’s artificial, built in the 70’s at the same time as the houses (and I have the aerial surveys going back to the 30’s to prove).
However, all it took was the president of our HOA buying a sign that said “This is protected endangered wetlands under blah blah blah law.” When the county officials came out they said “See, this is protected wetlands under blah blah blah law.” Then they ordered the HOA to spend $20,000 on wetlands mitigation to comply with blah blah blah law. Apparently, now I also have to write for permission from the county before I can do so much as cut a branch off of a tree. (It’s a good thing that inconvenient branches in my yard always break off during storms and that I’m not aware that the law also prevents me from removing fallen branches. 
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So the result for a dodo would certainly depend on jurisdiction, but my experience is that a single busybody could ruin the whole thing.
That’s a different situation. There are laws and regulations on the books that provide for protection of wetlands under particular criteria. If that drainage ditch fulfilled the criteria, it would automatically be protected.
Of course, local officials could try to seize the Dodo on the pretext that it was endangered, but there would be no legal basis for that seizure.
Wotta fun thread!
Gotta try to sell it asap, it might contract a modern disease that it hasn’t developed an immunity to.
Like bird flu 
How easy is it to buy endangered species? Very.
While the OP might not want the public scrutiny of auctioning the bird off at Christie’s, or having any other kind of public sale, contacting private collectors to submit bids would probably be the best way to maximize the price.
Rare species can command $50,000 or more on the black market. Of course, a dodo as a unique item would likely command far more. How much more would be would be difficult to say as there would be no precedent.
Would that result in a turdo? Maybe only if one ate it for luncho.
What about the Tamablecoque or Dodo tree? The tree has very valuable wood. The number of germinated seeds from this tree declined rapidly after the dodos vanished.
What you should do is get kickstarted to clone your dodo, then sell your flock (?) of dodos to the Mauritius government.
Of course there is some debate over the role of the dodo in the Tamablecoque life cycle.
also, lol turdo.
