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• The Melbourne Museum has two " Aepyornis " eggs.
• Butcher, employed by a collector, is engaged in finding " Aepyornis " eggs.
• A second, side-blown " Aepyornis " egg was acquired at a later date.
• "Aepyornis maximus ", the " elephant bird " of Madagascar, was the heaviest bird ever known.
• But that does not say anything about whether the natives took so many " Aepyornis " eggs that the species died out.
• Accompanying it were three other species of " Aepyornis " as well as three species of the smaller genus " Mullerornis ".
• The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, with one of the world's largest collections of avian eggs, has seven " Aepyornis " egg specimens.
• Elephant birds ( e . g . " Aepyornis maximus " ) were flightless ratites up to over three metres tall and half a tonne in weight.
• The ostrich belongs to the ratite cassowaries, moa, kiwi and the largest known bird ever, the now-extinct elephant bird ( " Aepyornis " ).
• Ten feet tall and weighing half a ton, these flightless, bipedal behemoths _ worthy of their superlative Latin name, Aepyornis maximus _ were rather like Big Bird in appearance.
• In this one-off programme, David Attenborough undertakes a personal journey back to Madagascar to investigate the fate of " Aepyornis ", the island's extinct elephant birds.
• There is archaeological evidence of " Aepyornis " from a CE ) with signs of butchering, and on the basis of radiocarbon dating of shells, about 1000 BP ( approximately 1000 CE ).
• He sells the bones of the bird to a collector; since it is larger than " Aepyornis maximus ", scientists give it the ( fictional ) name " Aepyornis vastus ".
• He sells the bones of the bird to a collector; since it is larger than " Aepyornis maximus ", scientists give it the ( fictional ) name " Aepyornis vastus ".
• The eggs were proposed to have been significantly larger than those of " Aepyornis " when complete, and Matheron suggested that they either were a very large bird egg, or belonged to " Hypselosaurus ".
• Also on display is a 1, 000-year-old egg of the Aepyornis, an emulike bird that lived on the island of Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa, and became extinct hundreds of years ago.
• The eight or more species of elephant birds, giant flightless ratites in the genera " Aepyornis " and " Mullerornis ", are extinct from over-hunting, as well as 17 species of lemur, known as giant, subfossil lemurs.
• Butcher, contemptuous of the natives, deals with the matter brutally, and he eventually finds himself adrift in the canoe with three " Aepyornis " eggs; his assistants are dead, one as a result of the bite and the other shot by Butcher.
• The bones of these domesticated fowl have been found in subfossil sites in the island ( MacPhee and Marx, 1997 : 188 ), such as Ambolisatra ( Madagascar ), where " Mullerornis " sp . and " Aepyornis maximus " have been reported.
• David Attenborough in a BBC Television program transmitted in early 2011 said that " very few " Aepyornis " bones show signs of butchery, so likely there was a Malagasy native taboo against killing " Aepyornis ", and that is likely why " Aepyornis " survived so long after Man arrived there . ".