Moa Money Moa Problems

I always loved this picture because I can imagine the next second and what the scene will look like when hunter boy there sticks the giant turkey in the bum. First he is going to get chased. Then he is going to get caught and stomped into the dirt in a way he will never quite be 'right' from from then on. Then he has to go back to the village and tell everyone exactly what happened to him and his spear. It's funnier if you then imagine the giant turkey a few weeks later, still with the spear in his rump as he is spotting by another hunting party that hunter boy is a part of. To paraphrase Bill Murray in Ghostbusters he would turn to the guy next to him and say, "That's him. That's the one that got me."

"The moa were hunted to extinction by 1500 by the Maori in New Zealand. They were the only species of birds with no wings. But wait, you say, what about kiwis, emus, and ostriches? Well, these flightless birds, a group of birds called ratites, actually do have wings (some of them vestigial).

Oh, and one more thing. I mentioned New Zealand – have you ever asked yourself where is Old Zealand? New Zealand is actually named after Zeeland, a major seafaring province of the Netherlands, by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman in 1642 (yup, the island of Tasmania is named after him). Captain James Cook misspelled it New Zealand and the name stuck ever since."

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