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Does anyone know how tall this tree gets? Any article about a tree should include its height. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.234.16.9 ( talk) 04:45, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
It would appear to me trivial that this tree is the one upon which Gerald Durrell's book The Mockery Bird is based, yet I was unable to find any clear-cut reference in my edition of the book, nor in Google. Would anybody happen to know if this is the case? - Itai 22:07, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I started the Durrell page, but I'm afraid I have no idea. Obviously he knew and wrote about Mauritius, but I don't know whether he was specific about the tree. DavidWBrooks 00:20, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Yes, the dodo and the dodo tree wee what durrell had in mind when he chose to write mockery bird as a "fable". all the information, including softening seed shells by digesting it - fits. and of course, the mockery bird is the dodo. Check the official biography by Douglas Botting.
Pradiptaray 22:51, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
Why? Temple's hypothesis was one of (nearly) obligatory mutualism. This has been roundly rejected. Read Cheke's account in Studies of Mascarene Island birds (pp 17-19) for details. While Cheke isn't exactly one of the most soft-spoken scientists I've come across, it is a potential career-breaker to call a hypothesis "folklore" and one does not do this lightly (except in private ;-) ). Cheke in effect details how Temple came to his hypothesis through a series of inadvertent errors and insufficient field study. -- Dysmorodrepanis ( talk) 18:19, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
I don't find it harsh at all. 75.7.3.207 ( talk) 04:50, 4 May 2008 (UTC)"
I also fail to find the tone "too strong." The tag is now a year old, and the person who added it never posted rationale on this talk page. I'm removing it. -- Stybn ( talk) 19:45, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
I have 8 seeds that range from 1 cm -1.4 cm wide and 1.6 cm -2.3 cm long. I have no turkeys. I planted 3 seeds last year as deep as the seed is long in potting soil. They never germinated. These current seeds have been weathered and I will plant them in a 6 inch pot on top of soil (barely pushed in the soil lengthwise. I mixed the soil from equal parts cow manure, play sand, peat moss and vermiculite. I will cover the seeds with with 1/2 inch vermiculite and 1 inch of straw and water before they dry out, every day if necessary. I will place the pot in direct sunlight. Days average 80F nights 65F. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.70.108.224 ( talk) 19:52, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Couldn't someone take and upload a picture of the thing before it goes extinct?
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Does anyone know how tall this tree gets? Any article about a tree should include its height. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.234.16.9 ( talk) 04:45, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
It would appear to me trivial that this tree is the one upon which Gerald Durrell's book The Mockery Bird is based, yet I was unable to find any clear-cut reference in my edition of the book, nor in Google. Would anybody happen to know if this is the case? - Itai 22:07, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I started the Durrell page, but I'm afraid I have no idea. Obviously he knew and wrote about Mauritius, but I don't know whether he was specific about the tree. DavidWBrooks 00:20, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Yes, the dodo and the dodo tree wee what durrell had in mind when he chose to write mockery bird as a "fable". all the information, including softening seed shells by digesting it - fits. and of course, the mockery bird is the dodo. Check the official biography by Douglas Botting.
Pradiptaray 22:51, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
Why? Temple's hypothesis was one of (nearly) obligatory mutualism. This has been roundly rejected. Read Cheke's account in Studies of Mascarene Island birds (pp 17-19) for details. While Cheke isn't exactly one of the most soft-spoken scientists I've come across, it is a potential career-breaker to call a hypothesis "folklore" and one does not do this lightly (except in private ;-) ). Cheke in effect details how Temple came to his hypothesis through a series of inadvertent errors and insufficient field study. -- Dysmorodrepanis ( talk) 18:19, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
I don't find it harsh at all. 75.7.3.207 ( talk) 04:50, 4 May 2008 (UTC)"
I also fail to find the tone "too strong." The tag is now a year old, and the person who added it never posted rationale on this talk page. I'm removing it. -- Stybn ( talk) 19:45, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
I have 8 seeds that range from 1 cm -1.4 cm wide and 1.6 cm -2.3 cm long. I have no turkeys. I planted 3 seeds last year as deep as the seed is long in potting soil. They never germinated. These current seeds have been weathered and I will plant them in a 6 inch pot on top of soil (barely pushed in the soil lengthwise. I mixed the soil from equal parts cow manure, play sand, peat moss and vermiculite. I will cover the seeds with with 1/2 inch vermiculite and 1 inch of straw and water before they dry out, every day if necessary. I will place the pot in direct sunlight. Days average 80F nights 65F. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.70.108.224 ( talk) 19:52, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Couldn't someone take and upload a picture of the thing before it goes extinct?