[blam]

"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

[shaggy eel]

,,, the Maoris killed off the moas and the Morioris. If comets or meteorites hit moas, they would have wiped everything else out as well. We've still got tuataras and a wonderful range of native birds so the meteors must have had enough intelligence to isolate moas as targets. Had the Maoris been smart enough to breed the moas in captivity, well, we'd be up on the deal now. They weren't, the white settlers showed up and built museums to house moa bones in. The Maoris were engaged in inter-tribal slaughters and cannibalism even up to less than 200 years ago.

[Neophyte]

Maori legends of great fires destroying forests and the moa bird, to be associated to...

It's obvious that the Moa had commited suicide by the way of great farting and so adding to the green house effect produced by the great fires in question.

And since the Maori of the day had no Labour government to tax them for every fart, their's or the birds', the story ended as we know it to end....

Let us not forget this historical lesson and stop whining about future flatulence tax.