All Creatures Great and Small

In my younger and more formative years as a Mod Author, I once put Dodo birds in Skyrim and the only way to accomplish that was by rigging the Dodo’s 3D model to the skeleton for the chickens. Of course I was immediately lambasted by the Elder Scrolls community because “Dodo’s aren’t lore friendly, how would they even survive in Skyrim?”

I love the idea of wild Dodos bumbling around Skyrim, and would 100% download your mod. I feel like a a flock of tame Dodos would make great companions for the flock of adopted orphans living in my Falkreath mansion. Maybe somebody could mod in a few Great Pyrenees to keep everyone safe while I’m out and about 🤔

And pshhh who cares if the biology is “lore-friendly” there are late Pleistocene mammals all over the place and giant spiders that live in the snow. The dodos are no great Reach for me (pun intended).

I feel you might appreciate my concept art for hypothetical Nintendogs with dodos (Nintendodos?) but since I can’t mod I just photoshopped in the dodo models from Zoo Tycoon 2

I am super intrigued by your Skyrim character research paper, and I am actually doing my uni dissertation on a very similar topic (broadly, how the overlap of fiction/fantasy and science is actually super important). I would love to talk with you more about it if you're amenable, as you are both ecologist and from what I can see, a fantasy nerd?

If not totally fine!!!

Cheers, phantom 👻

Can’t believe I’m just now learning that one of my favorite radiodonts is a pick-me