Despite living amongst plants with large seeds, extinct giant moa dispersed only tiny seeds
- Written by Jo Carpenter, PhD Candidate in Ecology, University of Canterbury
Researcher Janet Wilmshurst excavating moa droppings from a cave at Mt Nicholas Station, near Queenstown, in New Zealand. Jo Carpenter, CC BY-SA
When the giant moa of New Zealand were hunted to extinction about five centuries ago, the disappearance of the birds themselves was one of several losses.
There were nine species of moa that ranged in...