The guileless and friendly slaty-masked tinamou. — Luis Morais via The New York Times and Andy Haslam/The New York Times
ROTUND, ground-dwelling and disastrously trusting of humans, the dodo became the world’s poster species for extinction after vanishing from Mauritius in the 17th century, not long after Dutch sailors first laid eyes on it.
Now, Brazilian ornithologists say they’ve found its modern analogue deep in the Amazon: a chicken-like bird so unfazed by people it practically strolls up to introduce itself.
