DODO RAMPANT:

Bringing the dodo back to life (Jonathan Fryer, 9/15/02, BBC)

At first glance the Mauritian coat of arms looks like any other, until one notices that the creature on the left is a dodo rampant.

The concept of a rampant dodo is so deliciously absurd that it's hard not to giggle.

For all the evidence we have suggests that the dodo was singularly cumbersome and defenceless. Hence, maybe, its Latin name, didus ineptus.

The Judd family coat of arms features three boars, though critics have suggested it be changed to two bores. Posted by Orrin Judd at September 15, 2002 10:28 AM