Meaning of Haast's eagle | Babel Free

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An extinct giant eagle of New Zealand, †Hieraaetus moorei, which preyed on moas.

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“Haast's eagle lived on the island undisturbed until people arrived and started eating all the moas they could find.”

“The moas were bigger than modern ostriches, so the fact that Haast's eagle was able to kill them (hitting them from the side and taking them down that way) is even more impressive.”

“To work out how the Haast’s eagle (Hieraaetus moorei) — which lived in New Zealand and weighed up to 15 kilograms — fed, Anneke van Heteren at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Germany and her colleagues created digital 3D models of specimens.”

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