Junior science refresher magazine
Junior science refresher magazine published this article page no 11 its a bit complicated but bear with me. in something like the year 1500 c. e. the polynesian ancestors of the maori peoples arrived in what is known today as new zealand. they were a brand new species to the islands with no previous place in the ecosystem. as a result the local prey species most notably the enormous native birds called moa had no natural defenses against them. moa were not only flightless they were completely wingless. their only natural predator on the island was a 30-pound eagle (also later hunted to extinction by the proto-maori) so the werent that fast on their feet since theres not much point in running from an 80-mph flying killing machine. their only defense against ground-based predation was their great size which humans have traditionally not given much of a damn about (island peoples can hunt whales in wooden canoes over-grown chickens are hardly scary to them bright group of publications junior science refresher.
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