Leadership, Strategy, Success, Sunny's Signal A recent assignment in Mauritius brought a strange bird back to mind. It is on the country’s coat of arms, and all over popular culture: public imagery, tourist shops, even stamps. The dodo. The dodo is extinct, though. Mauritius has turned the dodo into a national ghost with a commercial and emblematic afterlife. Raphus cucullatus lived solely on Mauritius, minding its own business, eating fruit, nesting on the ground, bothering no one.