• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

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

    • Devi@beehaw.org
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      8 days 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.