Moa – An Introduction
Saturday, September 9th, 2006Giant flightless birds called Moas inhabited the islands of New Zealand 1, 000 years ago. There were more than a dozen species of moa and the largest of these may have weighed more than 200 kilograms and stood 2 to 3 meters high. Moas developed on isolated islands with limited contact with mammals and other terrestrial (land dwelling) vertebrates. Human beings did not colonize New Zealand until about 1,000 years ago when the first Polynesians arrived. These new arrivals hunted the Moas and it seems unlikely that any of the species survived.
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