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Elusive, Critically Endangered Bird—and One of the Closest Living Relatives of Dodos—Was Spotted for the First Time in Five Years
Conservationists are racing to save the manumea, a chicken-sized bird that lives only on two Samoan islands, from extinction ...
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The dodo's closest cousin, the manumea, is not extinct after all
The dodo's closest living relative, the Samoan manumea, was spotted alive in the wild, after being missing for years.
As a critically endangered species, the manumea could be considered mostly dead, but there’s a big difference between that ...
The detection happened in October and November near Uafato on Samoa’s island of Upolu. Manumea is a special bird for experts ...
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