In Ice Age, the dodo leader who guards the last melons is Dab.
Dab leads a group of dodos during the food shortage shown in the 2002 animated film. The dodos have collected the remaining melons and try to protect them from the migrating mammals, creating one of the film’s comic side stories.
The dodo sequence is easy to confuse with the film’s larger plot involving Manny, Sid, Diego, and the human baby. Dab is a minor character, while the dodo flock functions as a separate comic group whose survival instincts echo the movie’s broader migration theme.
Ice Age uses extinct animals in a deliberately imaginative prehistoric world. The dodo, for example, lived much later than the Pleistocene setting suggested by the film, so Dab is a fictional character rather than a scientifically precise reconstruction.