I share your views on corportate ethics (oxymoron), but in this case, of course, either Twain or his informaant was kidding. The moa was extinct before Europeans arrived. It is one of the things that most irks me about the "noble savage living in harmony with nature" crap that gets bandied about by white liberals. I hold the pre-European inhabitants of this country responsible for robbing me of the opportunity to see not only the giant moa but also the hapgornis, which preyed on it.


noho ora mai
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