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I found out new Zealand used to have giant birds called moaWtf? What happened to them


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I found out new Zealand used to have giant birds called moa

Wtf? What happened to them
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Aussies wiped them out, only the Emus managed to survive the purge. Then they signed a peace treaty.
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>>57600640

Maori killed em all.

Indirectly killed another kind of giant bird as well who had nothing to eat after the Moas carked it.
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>>57600640
new zealand truly is the land of shit birds
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>>57600640
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>The Māori arrived sometime before CE 1300, and all moa genera were soon driven to extinction by hunting and, to a lesser extent, by habitat reduction due to forest clearance. By 1445, all moa had become extinct, along with the Haast's eagle which had relied on them for food.
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They were too delicious .
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they seem delicious desu
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Clone them?
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>>57600640
they chimped out and murdered all of them

thank g*d we still have emus and cassowaries
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>>57600758
Kitty!!!
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>>57600827
rawr xD
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>>57600827
>kitty

>Siberian Tigers can tackle bears larger than themselves, using an ambushing tactic and jumping on to the bear from an overhead position, grabbing it by the chin with one fore paw and by the throat with the other, and then killing it with a bite in the spinal column. Tigers mainly feed on the bear's fat deposits, such as the back, hams, and groin.[8]
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>>57600862
Good kitty.
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>>57600862
It gets scarier

>Ussuri brown bears, along with the smaller Asian black bears constitute up to 40.7% of the Siberian tiger's diet.[31] Brown bears alone constitute up to 18.5% of their diet depending on the locations.[8][31][32] Certain tigers have been reported to imitate the calls of Asian black bears to attract them.[33]
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>>57600886
>Geptner and Sludskii (1972) stated that bears are generally afraid of tigers and change their path after coming across tiger trails.[8]

Don't fuck with the "kitty"
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>>57600886
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>>57600758
Really adorable. Too bad it can rip you to shreds
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>>57600924
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>>57600954
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>>57600954
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>>57600989
Jewish Autonomous Oblast

>In an incident at the San Francisco Zoo in December 2007, a Siberian tiger escaped and killed a visitor, and injured two others. The animal was shot by the police. The zoo was widely criticized for maintaining only a 12.5 ft (3.8 m) fence around the tiger enclosure, while the international standard is 16 ft (4.9 m). The zoo subsequently erected a taller barrier topped by an electric fence. One of the victims admitted to taunting the animal.[80]
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>>57600640
Luckily they still have their flesh eating parrots
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>>57600640
In le puku
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>>57601046
>The stylized tiger was designed by Kim Hyun as an amicable Amur tiger, portraying the friendly and hospitable traditions of the Korean people, and the name Hodori was chosen from 2,295 suggestions sent in by the public.

Oh the irony
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>>57601052
Selfie?
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>>57601085
http://english.cri.cn/12394/2015/12/17/4202s908901.htm

Siberian tigers now live in Jilin and Heliojang province. After falling to 600 wild tigers in 2005, the population has increased to over 2,000 in 2015.

There are over 400 Siberian Tigers in rural Manchuria as of 2015.
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>>57601052
do they think they look scary when doing that? it looks fucking hilarious
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>>57601052
wow his pupils are really fucking small

is he on heroin
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whito devils exterminated them, saying they were evil birds
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>>57600919
>>57600924
Siberian tiggers are cute! CUTE!
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>>57603249
/a/ or /tg/ pls go
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