For many years it was thought that the bird felix (Felis dodotis ) was not more than a legend or, best, an extinct species like many others throughout the history of our planet.
Darwin said in his magnum opus: "The bird felix is \u200b\u200bat first sight, be somewhat clumsy, not very graceful or too fitted for flying, swimming or the hundred meter hurdles. However, certain characteristics that make it really special. Likes to curl up in a quiet and sunny emitting a sound like the purring cat, and nails are retractable legs as the cat. Reaches a state of lethargy as to say it is dead, but when the sun is toasted enough guts and they ring, wake (hence the legend of his rise from the ashes) and the game is released a small rodent that I've taken the liberty of naming as Malditus roedoris . "
Even after Charles Darwin described the bird felix in Origin of Species, renowned scholars of biology and zoology led to them as "a hallucination alcohol over the scruffy beard" (Jean-Louis Rodolphe Agassiz et al. Nomenclator Zoologicus ).
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