Meaning of moa-nalo | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the late Pleistocene until sometime before 1778.

Examples

“All of the raptors would have exploited rails, young ibises, and perhaps young moa-nalos, although the eagle was the only one capable of taking adult ibises or moa-nalos.”

“1996, Amoco Oil Company, Sixth North American Paleontological Convention: Abstracts of Papers, page 194, We obtained a collection of coprolites from Thambetochen chauliodous, one of four species of flightless Hawaiian waterfowl known collectively as moa-nalos.”

“Moa-nalos did not occur on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose.”

“The moa-nalos are a clade of ducks known from subfossils on the main Hawaiian islands.”

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