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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think Moa are a cool candidate for de-extinction, cause we have close relatives, they wouldn't be too dangerous, and we could house them well in zoos. Plus I'd super like to see one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not too dangerous, weren't they identified as the predator in a lot of Maori stories about man hunting birds?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They were certainly feared but aren't as dangerous as say, a tiger, which we keep regularly. Their poo suggests a herbivorous diet so unlikely to be hunting anything regularly, probably more like a cassowary that attack for defence.