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It's only recently that I discovered that human was responsible (just once more) of the recent disparition of not one, but TWO different flightless birds, the Moa (in New Zealand, the tallest of the two) and the Elefant Bird or Aepyornis (in Madagascar, the heaviest of the two), two species that got absolutely no relation despite a convergent evolution leading to a similar shape. Though I've heard about both, in my mind they were the same. I don't even understand now how I did not notice they were living so far the one from the other!!!!! XD
It's only recently that I discovered that human was responsible (just once more) of the recent disparition of not one, but TWO different flightless birds, the Moa (in New Zealand, the tallest of the two) and the Elefant Bird or Aepyornis (in Madagascar, the heaviest of the two), two species that got absolutely no relation despite a convergent evolution leading to a similar shape. Though I've heard about both, in my mind they were the same. I don't even understand now how I did not notice they were living so far the one from the other!!!!! XD
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But they were all vegetarian contrary to the terror birds that lived dozens of thousands years before. This led them to their end: to kill them, local populations were chooseing the kind of small round stones those big birds were eating to help them in digesting by crushing vegetals, heated them strongly and left them in places they knew the birds would pass. Then they just had to wait the birds to swallow them and die by terrible internal burnings....
I'm sorry... but this is the first thing that came to my mind: http://i537.photobucket.com/albums/.....BirdDogSex.png
Don't kill me.
Don't kill me.
I thought all ratites were distantly related, in the sense that they diverged from the common avian ancestor and attained a similar body type before diverging into the ratite form, being the ostrich, emu and rhea for extant species and the moa and elephant bird for the extinct ones? Another fun fact: Moas were hunted by the largest eagle in the world. Which is also extinct. Humans really kill everything.
But, I'm glad they got rid of the giant, killer reptiles of Australia.
But, I'm glad they got rid of the giant, killer reptiles of Australia.
What I learnt is that if the Aepyornis is a ratite indeed, the Moa is not at all and comes from a very different, totally extinct family of birds.
That's not much of a surprise as a couple to a couple millions years ago, there were many different species of giant birds, and they came from many different families - like the Diatrymas, Titanis and Phorroracos for example.
That's not much of a surprise as a couple to a couple millions years ago, there were many different species of giant birds, and they came from many different families - like the Diatrymas, Titanis and Phorroracos for example.
I love the way the bird is lookin' at him. Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8QHw9lrMao
it's ok they're still alive in guild wars! :D there's so many they are a food source lol! jkjk XD *gnaws on a moa leg* o~o poor birdy.... poor delicious birdy TwT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb7H.....eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb7H.....eature=related
J'ai récemment vu dans un musée d'histoire naturelle un oeuf d'oiseau-éléphant... t'avais de quoi faire une omelette pour nourrir tout un village ! Mais bon, sachant que l'humain a peu a peu pris le contrôle sur le monde et domine à présent par la violence, il faut se rassurer en se disant qu'une autre espèce viendra forcément prendre le relais après nous, nous ayant écrasés sans pitié, non ? (Les rats, par exemple... les rats, les rats, les rats ! )
Heh heh, there were in New Zealand and Madagascar big birds, a little like ostriches, but taller and much heavier.
Of course humans rapidly made them go extinct as soon as they arrived in those islands. Last ones may have died a few hundreds years ago, but as for the thylacine in Australia and many other extinct creatures, there are some stories telling a few may have survived recently, perhaps even today.
Of course humans rapidly made them go extinct as soon as they arrived in those islands. Last ones may have died a few hundreds years ago, but as for the thylacine in Australia and many other extinct creatures, there are some stories telling a few may have survived recently, perhaps even today.
Reconstitution of:
-Aepyornis (elefant bird)
http://www.madagascarica.com/images/Aepyornis.jpg
http://www.rationalisme.org/photos/.....aximus_big.jpg
-Dinornis (Moa)
http://big_game.at.infoseek.co.jp/moa/Dinornis.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_a-U8xbVPa.....ssaddddddd.jpg
-Aepyornis (elefant bird)
http://www.madagascarica.com/images/Aepyornis.jpg
http://www.rationalisme.org/photos/.....aximus_big.jpg
-Dinornis (Moa)
http://big_game.at.infoseek.co.jp/moa/Dinornis.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_a-U8xbVPa.....ssaddddddd.jpg
Ouaip... Je me souvient d'avoir vu un documentaire concernant ces oiseaux et les raisons de leur extinction... D'après les reconstitution ils était vraiment magifiques (moa) et d'après une légende locale il y aurait eu des signalement (Ca j'ai de la misère à le croire) de ces oiseaux.... C'est vraiment dommage qu'ils ait disparus.... A les regarder ils était un chainon reliant encore les Dinosaures et les oiseaux...
Il n'est jamais impossible que ces créatures n'aient pas tout à fait disparu, Madagascar comme la Nouvelle Zélande sont des territoires GIGANTESQUES, et certains endroits nous sont totalement inaccessibles.
En tous cas, dans les deux cas, on a des histoires qui laisseraient à penser que ces oiseaux géants aient pu disparaître plus tard que leur date d'extinction "officielle"
LOL Il n'y a pas MOINS chaînon manquant que ces créatures, puisqu'ils étaient hyper-spécialisés (absence totale d'aile), c'est-à-dire qu'ils avaient au contraire énormément évolué.
En tous cas, dans les deux cas, on a des histoires qui laisseraient à penser que ces oiseaux géants aient pu disparaître plus tard que leur date d'extinction "officielle"
LOL Il n'y a pas MOINS chaînon manquant que ces créatures, puisqu'ils étaient hyper-spécialisés (absence totale d'aile), c'est-à-dire qu'ils avaient au contraire énormément évolué.
C'est dommage que les moas ait disparu, le seul espoir réside dans la science
(si du moins, les savants ont suffisament de fragments d'ADN provenant des os...)
niveau oiseaux, ça t'intéresserais certainement, un oiseau ayant des trait de caractère du vélociraptor (jeune, du moins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKwwdcfc4Ck
et aussi, le kakapo, l'oiseau le plus cool du monde!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY
(si du moins, les savants ont suffisament de fragments d'ADN provenant des os...)
niveau oiseaux, ça t'intéresserais certainement, un oiseau ayant des trait de caractère du vélociraptor (jeune, du moins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKwwdcfc4Ck
et aussi, le kakapo, l'oiseau le plus cool du monde!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY
Yep, I was right about the first video, heh heh... :3 Toujours impressionannt ceci dit. Tu sais que ce ne sont que les jeunes qui ont ces griffes, et que ces oiseaux puent parce qu'ils ruminent comme les vaches ?!!
Trop drôle le kakapo XD XD Si on les avait laissé évoluer, ils autraient complètement perdu leurs ailes comme les kiwis. Mais on ne leur en laissera pas le temps bien sûr...
Trop drôle le kakapo XD XD Si on les avait laissé évoluer, ils autraient complètement perdu leurs ailes comme les kiwis. Mais on ne leur en laissera pas le temps bien sûr...
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