The Lost World of the Moa
The Lost World of the Moa

Author: T. H. Worthy

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1200

ISBN-13: 9780253340344

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An investigation of the rich and unusual fauna of prehistoric New Zealand, telling of one of the most dramatic extinctions of modern times. The moa, a giant flightless bird, was among the animals lost, the authors summarize what is known about the bird, reconstructing its life and ecology.

Prodigious Birds
Prodigious Birds

Author: Atholl Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-30

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780521543965

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Prodigious Birds brings together the entire field of moa-related research, some 150 years of enquiry. The moa was a large flightless bird, hunted into extinction by the Maori tribes of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans. Atholl Anderson brings an historical perspective to the development of moa research and its formative debates, analytical methods and results, reviewing evidence from palaeontology, biology, archaeology, ethnography and history.