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Every picture you've ever seen of a dodo is probably wrong.
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The chubby, goofy cartoon bird from textbooks, memes, and Alice in Wonderland?
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Yeah.
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That dodo never really existed.
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The real bird likely looked very different.
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So where do you find the real image of the dodo?
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you look toward the artist who actually saw them.
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We're decoding the art of the dodo, because scientists working to bring the dodo back don't just need bones and DNA.
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They also need clues from the people who lived alongside these birds.
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Clues about what the animal may have truly looked like.
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So we sat down with an art historian helping scientists reconstruct an extinct species through centuries -old paintings.
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We're tracing the real Dodo through the eyes of the artists who painted it, to uncover what the bird actually looked like, how the wrong version took over the world,
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and how nearly forgotten paintings are now helping scientists rebuild it.
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And we'll answer the question: Could we be looking at one again in our lifetime?
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This is Marine Saussier, an art historian and graduate of the Ecole de Louvre in Paris.
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She wasn't supposed to end up working with de -extinction scientists, She was studying Dutch Golden Age paintings, Then her brother made a joke about the dodo
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and accidentally sent her down a rabbit hole that would eventually connect her with the team trying to bring the bird back.
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My name is Marine, Marine Soucier.
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I specialized in history of European painting and Dutch painting in particular.
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I got very passionate about research while writing my thesis about the dodo,
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and so I decided to pursue it by doing a PhD in art and cultural history.
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I'm half French, half Mauritian.
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When you are in Mauritius, dodos are everywhere, on the coins, in the market, a lot of souvenirs of the dodo.
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I've been fortunate enough to grow up in Paris, which allowed me to be very close to great monuments and museums that always fascinated me.
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My dad used to bring me to the Louvre with him every week, and that's how I became familiar with art, I guess.
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This is the most famous dodo painting in the world painted by Dutch artist Roulant Savary in the 1620s.
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It's the reason we all picture the dodo as a chunky, awkward little gremlin.
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Savary worked in the court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, whose massive collections in Prague included exotic animals,
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preserved specimens, and sprawling cabinets of curiosities from across the known world.
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There's just one problem: the dodo savarie painted may not have looked much like a real dodo at all.
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Roland Savory is really the most important painter He is also sometimes named the Dodo's painter.
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Some researches have been made about the to understand why they were chubby and obese in a way, in the representations of Roland Savory.
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The answer is certainly it's because they were stuffed
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when they were both in Europe What he painted was likely based on a very overstuffed specimen.
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But that one image became the dodo.
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Savary painted it again and again.
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His nephew, Jan Savary, copied it.
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Then other artists copied them, and suddenly this strange swollen bird started spreading across Europe like a 400 -year -old meme.
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In the 19th century, for example, Lewis Carroll, the famous author of Alice in Wonderland,
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got inspired by the specimen of the dudette that was kept at Oxford
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and used it to create the character of the dodo in his novel.
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It appears that the real names of Lewis Carroll was
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Charles Doxon and so it turns the dodo in a kind of self -portrait of himself in the novel.
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It makes no doubt that the illustrator John Tenniel got inspired by the Roland Savory painting to represent the dodo And actually,
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the printed version of Alice in Wonderland quickly spread all around the world
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And that's actually one of the episodes that led to the current fame of the dodo as an icon of extinction.
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And it has been possible thanks to painting, basically.
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Disney, Ice Age, Madagascar, memes, GIFs, tattoos.
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Almost all of it traces back to one probably wrong painting.
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of miles apart and never knowing each other existed, we're doing something very different.
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They were painting the bird as it actually looked.
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The two depictions I think are the most accurate to Dodo's anatomy,
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were made in very different contexts but similar backgrounds.
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The first one was made by Jacob Fufnaröl at the court of Prague, where a Dodo was kept at the menagerie of Rudolf II.
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sort.
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But here's the question: the dodo lived on a single island in the Indian Ocean.
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So how did one end up in a palace in Prague, and another in the Mughal courts of India?
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The answer is the Dutch East India Company.
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These guys were flinging dodos around as diplomatic gifts Because in 17th century Europe, owning a rare animal wasn't just a curiosity.
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It was status.
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a flex, Proof that your empire reached places other empires just couldn't.
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And inside these royal courts, artists weren't being paid to invent fantasy creatures or paint vibes.
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They were being paid to document the collections as accurately as possible.
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Although they are considered scientifically accurate,
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I think we can still rely on art history and on the artist's motivation to understand this accuracy furthermore.
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the fact that they were both made in real context and that they were represented in bestiaries.
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is a good indicator.
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The motivation and mission of those two artists was above all to document the collections of naturalia of their own monarch.
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and in order to do
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so they were very precise both in the rendering of the proportions but also in the anatomy
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and in the use of the right colors And no one pushed that documentary precision further than Ustad Mansour.
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He was one of the greatest Mughal miniaturists of his generation.
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In his world, master painters used brushes made from a single squirrel hair all to capture the smallest possible details with extreme precision.
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The dodos that were represented in Europe at that time, in earthly paradises, so it was more of a fantastical representation,
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whereas Ustad Mansour is really focused on the documental purpose of the representation.
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400 years later, in a lab on the other side of the world, scientists are trying to bring the dodo back.
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bones, tissue, ancient DNA, genome sequencing, the full Jurassic Park toolkit.
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But when you're trying to connect genes to visible traits, it still matters what the animal actually looked like.
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Written descriptions help.
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but paintings that accurately capture the bird their gold.
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So Maureen got on a call with Colossal's avian team.
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She brought the Hofnagel painting, she brought the Mansour, and suddenly, the art historian and the genome scientists were studying the same images,
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for completely different reasons.
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The thing is that we are working on the same images but for different purposes.
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They were actually really, I think, surprised and glad when I showed them the two most accurate depictions in my opinion.
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and they had some questions about those two pictures For example, they were wondering if these dodos are male or female.
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Some dodos are represented with a tail and others aren't.
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so maybe it can be a track to distinguish.
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They were also really interested about all the questions about the colors of the feathers, for example.
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The feathers are not always representing the same colors, sometimes they are a bit grayish, sometimes a bit more brownish,
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and in the two depictions they have the same the same colors.
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Then came one of the strongest reality checks yet.
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Scientists compared surviving dodo bones preserved in a museum in Denmark against the proportions in the Hofnagel painting,
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and the measurements lined up.
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And now the road back to the real Dodo runs through a Mughal miniature a Habsburg cabinet of curiosities,
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and a genetics lab in Texas, which honestly feels fitting
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because the true story of the dodo has always been stranger than the cartoon version we inherited.
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When I contacted Colossal, I thought they would never answer to me
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because they were like a French student working on dodo's and art history because they are scientists.
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Like I was completely wrong and it was just really, really interesting and motivated too have that discussions with the team
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and with you today so you have to be audacious to to get what you want.
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Here's the thing about the dodo.
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It isn't just a bird, it's the bird, the mascot of extinction.
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The dodo became famous as a joke, a cartoon, a punchline.
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But for 400 years, the real bird has been hiding inside that joke, in old oil paintings, in bones, in fragments of DNA.
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And now the mystery is slowly being solved, Because one day soon, we may not just remember the dodo,
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we may actually meet it.
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again.
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背景故事：渡渡鸟的真实模样与艺术之谜
视频中，艺术史学家玛丽安·索西尔分享了一个有趣的发现：我们熟悉的胖嘟嘟、蠢萌的渡渡鸟形象可能全错了！原来，17世纪画家罗兰·萨瓦里基于填充标本创作的渡渡鸟画，被后人不断复制，甚至影响了《爱丽丝梦游仙境》的插画，最终让错误形象传遍全球。而现在，科学家们正通过古老画作中的线索，试图还原渡渡鸟的真实模样，这其中的故事既有趣又充满知识。
日常交流必备的5个实用短语
- end up doing sth：最终做了某事。例：她原本研究荷兰黄金时代绘画，却end up和灭绝物种科学家合作。
- send sb down a rabbit hole：让某人陷入复杂或奇妙的探索。例：哥哥的一个笑话send her down a rabbit hole，开启了她对渡渡鸟的研究。
- trace back to：追溯到。例：几乎所有渡渡鸟的形象都trace back to萨瓦里的那幅画。
- it makes no doubt that：毫无疑问。例：It makes no doubt that插画师受到了萨瓦里作品的启发。
- sit down with sb：与某人深入交谈。例：我们sat down with玛丽安，了解她的研究。
影子跟读（shadow speak）分步指南：攻克这段视频
这段视频包含历史、艺术和科学知识，语速适中但有不少长句，适合用来练习英语口语练习。以下是具体步骤：
- 听一遍，抓大意：先不看字幕，专注听懂“渡渡鸟形象错误”的核心观点，熟悉整体节奏。
- 逐句跟读，模仿语调：使用shadowing site或暂停视频，逐句重复。注意玛丽安说话时的轻重音，比如“真正的渡渡鸟可能长得很不一样”中的重音位置。
- 重点突破长难句：比如“科学家们不仅需要骨骼和DNA，还需要与渡渡鸟共存的人们留下的线索”，拆分句子结构，练习流畅度。
- 角色扮演，强化记忆：想象自己是玛丽安，向朋友讲述渡渡鸟的故事，用shadowspeak方法巩固短语和句型。
通过看YouTube学英语，不仅能了解有趣的知识，还能提升口语能力，赶紧试试吧！
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | is also sometimes named · have been made · were stuffed |
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | you've ever seen · I've been · have been made |
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。