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| New Zealand (and Hawaii, and Madagascar) offers a yet more recent example of human depredations on a naive fauna. The New Zealand moas (various species of large flightless birds) survived their human hunters almost until the time of arrival of Europeans. Here, the mummified remains of a moa from a New Zealand cave resides in The Natural Museum of Natural History (formerly known as the British Museum (Natural History)). The bones in the trash heaps of the first human occupants of the Hawaiian Islands show more than 25 species of extinct (and often flightless) birds went the way of the dodo on the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. | ||
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