Skip to comments.
Bones Of Giant Birds Pose Mating Mystery
Independent (UK) ^
| 9-11-2003
| Steve Connor
Posted on 09/10/2003 3:39:39 PM PDT by blam
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-63 next last
1
posted on
09/10/2003 3:39:40 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Ask Big Bird!
2
posted on
09/10/2003 3:43:20 PM PDT
by
SwinneySwitch
(Freedom isn't Free - Support the Troops!!)
To: blam
3
posted on
09/10/2003 3:43:44 PM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(Vote for Arnold. At least he has a shot.)
To: blam
That's nothing. My dog is a half Labrador, half Scottie. And the Scottie was the father!
4
posted on
09/10/2003 3:47:01 PM PDT
by
zoso82t
To: blam; Billthedrill; Cyber Liberty; dead; Victoria Delsoul; Fiddlstix; Focault's Pendulum; ...
A study of the fossilised bones of a giant bird which died out about 800 years ago has revealed that the female was three times the size of the male.The scientists noted that the male and female birds weighed approximately the same until they got married.
Bada bing!
To: blam
"This raises the question of how the moa cocks were able to mate with their huge hens." Scientists could look to Oprah Winfrey and the supposed boyfriend Stedman Graham for an answer.
6
posted on
09/10/2003 3:50:28 PM PDT
by
quark
To: Sir Gawain
LOL you owe me a keyboard
7
posted on
09/10/2003 3:51:37 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(CCCP = clinton, chiraq, chretien, and putin = stalin wannabes (moore is goebbels))
To: Sir Gawain
holy hell...
I've never had a "mate" who was more than, well, twice my metric mass. ... I don't think. really.
8
posted on
09/10/2003 3:54:36 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(If I had a hammer, I'd keep it cocked over a full chamber with the safety on.. .condition one.)
To: blam
how the moa cocks Very carefully, i assume.
To: isthisnickcool
That's a pig, you goof!! ;-)
10
posted on
09/10/2003 3:58:02 PM PDT
by
TomServo
("I worked at NASA back when we were next to Cost Cutters.")
To: blam
So, they're extinct, are they?
11
posted on
09/10/2003 3:58:30 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
Bump!
12
posted on
09/10/2003 3:58:58 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: RightWhale
"So, they're extinct, are they?" Yes, they were killed off by a meteor swarm in 1178AD.
13
posted on
09/10/2003 4:08:08 PM PDT
by
blam
To: isthisnickcool
Nah thats a beached lesbien whale
To: Sir Gawain
ROFL
15
posted on
09/10/2003 4:22:53 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: blam
This raises the question of how the moa cocks were able to mate with their huge hens. Well, birds don't have penises - the story of Leda and Zeus in the form of a swan was pretty good, but Hera ain't buying it (lipstick on the toga, you know) - so what they do is rub their cloaca together and transfer the, er, genetic material that way. You can see all the boy birds in the bars of a Saturday evening - "Hey, Tweety! Let's go out and git ourselves a little cloaca!" - but difficulties in mating in such a case of dimorphism won't be as insuperable as one might think.
It does remind me a little of the fabled Oooah bird. Cubical eggs with sharp edges. You can hear them in the jungles when the sun goes down, "Ooooooooooooahhhhhhh!"
To: New Zealander; Neophyte; Brian Allen; spitz
Moa died out after the arrival of the Maori,,, what a coincidence - so did the Morioris.
To: blam
A 250kg. bird is a little more than 550 pounds. My guess is that the male of the species mated very carefully.
To: blam
This raises the question of how the moa cocks were able to mate with their huge hens. Well,if it comes to a toss-up between scientists knowing how they did it, and the males knowing how, it is better that the males knew how...
19
posted on
09/10/2003 4:40:11 PM PDT
by
NCjim
To: shaggy eel; RightWhale
"Moa died out after the arrival of the Maori" The Maori said they didn't kill off the Moa.
"A number of observations suggest that catastrophic cometary or meteoritic impacts around the same time also affected the Pacific basin: Maori legends of great fires destroying forests and the moa bird, to be associated to the recently found Tapanui craters"
Evidence Of Tunguska Type Impacts In The Pacific Basin Around 1178AD
20
posted on
09/10/2003 4:42:07 PM PDT
by
blam
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-63 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson