Cats prefer small flightless birds.
Cats prefer small flightless birds.
“moaMoaMoa! How do you like it?
How do you like it?”
They basically resembled giant emus.
Muh-muh-muh-my, my, my, my, my, WHOO!!
Muh-muh-muh-my momoana.
Extinct due to overhunting. I wonder what the quality of meat was, I’ve eaten ostrich and it was more like beef than typical white meat poultry. I thought it was very good, but could be partly due to the excellent sauce, more like a glaze.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa
The biggest Moa were 12 feet tall and weighed over 500 pounds.
I wonder if they could kick like a cassowary.
All moas were killed within 100 years of man reaching New Zealand.
Lived in New Zealand from 1982 to 1984 and that was one thing I got to learn about the place. Imagine if you had Doctor Who’s timebox and were to go back to a time when the Saxons and Vikings warred over the British Isles or Charles The Hammer Martel ruled France. New Zealand at that time (before the first Polynesians arrived a few centuries later) would have been this very unique museum of flightless birds and rare species of wood and it was very fascinating (and that bid saddening) to learn about all of this and what happened when the Maori and later Europeans arrived.
Soon to be joined in extinction by Big Bird.
Poppa um moa moa, poppa um moa moa