[helloworld11]

If you founded a company that actually, really, visibly de-extincted the very famous,, deeply recognizable, colloquially-adopted dodo ("dead as a dodo, "dumb as a dodo", etc), and then had a literal dodo-looking dodo bird walking around in some game preserve for all the world to see, finding funding via dodo leasing would be the least of your monetary inflows.

VC money would rain down upon you like mana from heaven and the publicity would garner your company so many indirect financial rewards that you could later move on to all sorts of things. Not to mention the IP and patent rights you'd presumably create along the way with your cloning process and related procedures for future profitable use.

[helloworld11]

Also worth noting that dodo birds were reportedly very tasty and meat-rich, so farming millions of them as a resurrected species for food is hardly out of the question.

[waltbosz]

It's funny, when I saw the picture of the dodo on their website, I almost immediately thought, that bird looks tasty.

Also, there is a fun movie by Aardman Animations about Charles Darwin and a band of pirates whose captain keeps the last remaining dodo as a pet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates!_In_an_Adventure_w...!