History Main / DumbDodoBird

* Disney's ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' has The Dodo, who is a CompositeCharacter of the original Dodo, and another character named Pat.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'' has Polly, a Dodo bird that acts as the Pirate Captain's PirateParrot. She becomes quite important to the film's plot after a scientist recognizes her for what she is. Is smarter than most examples, though. Interestingly, a scenario like that could actually occur. Dodos were sometimes captured from Mauritus by pirates to be sold. Many authors from the time write of captive dodos being seen as sideshow exhibits in London.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' "Steve and Snot's Test-Tubular Adventure": Stan brings home Daren, a dodo cloned by the {{CIA}} that has to be repeatedly saved from killing itself. The first time Stan introduces Daren, it coats itself in oil, breads itself, and sits in a pan on the stove after lighting the burner.

** In one episode, Fred buys a talking dodo bird named Doozy as a birthday present for Wilma. Like the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' example above, Doozy looks nothing like a real dodo. He is also more similar in behavior to a parrot.

* Dodo from ''Animal Crackers'', although he is not as dumb as he is temperamental and too stubborn to realize he's flightless.

* ''The Dodo and the Frog'' was an early Creator/DCComics series that featured a dull witted dodo bird and a frog who continually tried and failed to take advantage of him. The comic originally ran under the name 'Funny Stuff'.

* Dodo Birds themselves couldn't fly, as mentioned, and they also had deadly parasites. They became extinct because of CripplingOverspecialisation, having been outcompeted by other species (in particular pigs), due to having no predators (or competition) before those species arrived.

* Dodo Birds themselves couldn't fly, as mentioned, and they also had deadly parasites. They became extinct because CripplingOverspecialisation, having been outcompeted by other species (in particular pigs), due to having no predators (or competition) before those species arrived.

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' has a group of dodos that are preparing for the [[TitleDrop Ice Age]]. However, at the point they're introduced they've only gathered three melons, one of which the main trio need to feed the human baby. They end up driving their entire species to extinction right then and there just trying to defend the melons.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', two dodo birds are seen chasing down a Music/CrazyFrog knockoff in [[spoiler:the Void]].

* The ''[[Video/Game Don't Starve: Shipwrecked]]'' DLC has the Doydoys, passive mobs which are clearly meant to be dodo birds.

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* ''The Dodo and the Frog'' was an early Creator/DCComics series that featured Dunbar Dodo, a dull witted bird of whom Fennimore Frog continually tried and failed to take advantage. The comic originally ran under the name 'Funny Stuff'.

* ''Dodo and the Frog'' was an early Creator/DCComics series that featured Dunbar Dodo, a dull witted bird of whom Fennimore Frog continually tried and failed to take advantage.

* ''Dodo and the Frog'' was an early ComicBooks/DCComics series that featured Dunbar Dodo, a dull witted bird of whom Fennimore Frog continually tried and failed to take advantage.

** As of the 'Ark: Fear Evolved' Halloween event, the game has also implemented Zomdodos (undead Dodos) and the DodoRex, which has the appearance of a large, feathered Tyrannosaurus with a head shaped like a Dodo's.

* In Paul Adshead's children's puzzle book ''Puzzle Island'', the reader has a diary and a map of a mysterious island where an adventurer named Ambrose Fogarty claims to have found a male and female of 'the rarest creature in the whole world', which were believed to be extinct. Having taken the male to a location where he plans to create a breeding colony, he charges the reader with solving his puzzles to prove that they really love animals in order to find the identity of the creature and the location of the colony. It turns out that the Dodo bird was the creature the reader had been tasked to help save, and it was hiding in plain sight all along [[spoiler:on the front cover, and you can see it by flipping the cover upside-down]].