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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
There is no way on earth it carried a 500 pound carcass. Pieces of flesh after it ate its full, yes, but not whole prey.
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The reports were of people so I don't think it was 500 lbs of moa, but more of the order of 150-200 lbs of additional load. And your right about it being a specialist it specilized in large animals , a niche normally filled by made, the problem is once humans made the Moa extinct the Hasst eagle was doomed because they only thing left that was large enough for it to eat was humans (deer did not come until the euopeans came). And Humans have a good tract record of eliminating anything the exclusively preys on them.