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Lost land of the dodo : an ecological history of Mauritius, Réunion & Rodrigues
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Studies of Mascarene Island birds: An ecological history of the Mascarene Islands, with particular reference to extinctions and introductions of land vertebrates
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This chapter is an attempt to fill the gap in the available material from an ecological point of view of the Mascarene islands by reviewing the history of Portuguese movements in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century.
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Studies of Mascarene Island birds: The ecology of the smaller land-birds of Mauritius
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The Status of bats on western Indian Ocean islands, with special reference to Pteropus
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Nous n'avons pas pu confirmer 1'existence actuelle aux Comores de l'espece endemique Rousettus obliviosus qui a ete collectee pour the derniere fois en 1903.
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Lost land of the dodo
How Owen ‘stole’ the Dodo: academic rivalry and disputed rights to a newly-discovered subfossil deposit in nineteenth century Mauritius
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Owen published on the Dodo first, while Clark was financially rewarded, but Clark's ensuing arguments over the site discovery with railway engineer, Harry Higginson, and attempt to cover up the abundance of Dodo bones, thus keeping prices high, concluded in a bitter rivalry that never resolved between Owen and the Newton brothers.
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Mascarene Islands, Biology
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Studies of Mascarene Island birds: Observations on the surviving endemic birds of Rodrigues
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The dodo and the tambalacoque tree: an obligate mutualism reconsidered.
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It is likely that the tambalacoque evolved a thick, tough seed coat in response to consumption by its dispersers, but there is no evidence that the seeds require abrasion before they can germinate.
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Studies of Mascarene Island birds: Measurements and weights of the surviving endemic birds of the Mascarenes and their eggs
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