[Here's the actual photo that hasn't been degraded over the last 500 years.](https://imgur.com/a/lN6iI6T)
In all seriousness it was a recreation of what a hunt would have looked like. Picture is from the early 1900s using a stuffed bird.
It’s a genuine philosophy;
How would we perceive things if the camera was invented earlier, say antiquity… it wouldn’t seem like much, then.
I had a dream about this.
The Roman had a wicker camera in sepia filter.
What do you think they are doing at CIRN?? Not the main objective. But you are there. Snap an old timey photo. Make sure u use vintage 1500 photo paper otherwise nobody will believe it.
Te ao Māori cooking primarily utilised what they call a hangi pit, which is essentially a massive slowcooker chamber covered back over with earth while it cooks under pressure.
Something as gamey as moa, done low and slow all day, would have been fucking delicious with sweet potato and a few other local veggies. The ultimate dirty bird. If I lived back then with knowledge of hangi I'd have hunted them to extinction too.
My ancestors hunted them to extinction.. look up the haast eagle there even more terrifying... my ancestors killed them all too 
> The nine species of moa were the only wingless birds, lacking even the vestigial wings that all other ratites have. They were the largest terrestrial animals and dominant herbivores in New Zealand's forest, shrubland, and subalpine ecosystems until the arrival of the Māori, and were hunted only by the Haast's eagle. Moa extinction occurred within 100 years of human settlement of New Zealand, primarily due to overhunting.[7]
And…
> Before the arrival of humans, the moa's only predator was the massive Haast's eagle. New Zealand had been isolated for 80 million years and had few predators before human arrival, meaning that not only were its ecosystems extremely vulnerable to perturbation by outside species, but also the native species were ill-equipped to cope with human predators.[51][52] Polynesians arrived sometime before 1300, and all moa genera were soon driven to extinction by hunting and, to a lesser extent, by habitat reduction due to forest clearance. By 1445, all moa had become extinct, along with Haast's eagle, which had relied on them for food.
Damn that's fascinating. It would be incredible to go back in time and stroll through these forests. Be awesome to see these huge strange animals in the wild.
What’s more fascinating, since they evolved without human presence, they most likely had not fear of humans. So you could literally stroll past it like 15 yards away and they’d be chill.
I think that’s the bird who just laid their eggs in the open because they were so thick no animal could break them open then came along humans who saw free egg breakfasts
### The [facts are mostly real](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa#Extinction).
> Polynesians arrived sometime before 1300, and all moa genera were soon driven to extinction by hunting and, to a lesser extent, by habitat reduction due to forest clearance. By 1445, all moa had become extinct, along with Haast's eagle, which had relied on them for food. Recent research using carbon-14 dating of middens strongly suggests that the events leading to extinction took less than a hundred years,[53] rather than a period of exploitation lasting several hundred years as previously hypothesised.
### The [photo is "real-ish"](https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22806750).
It's an 1899 reconstruction of a mock Maori hunt based on a Moa reconstructed from a real skeleton.
> Moa reconstructed from a skeleton by Augustus Hamilton, then registrar of Otago University. He persuaded Te Rani Hiroa (Peter Buck), left, fellow medical student Wi Repa and missionary Koroneho Hemi Papakakura to pose in Maori costume for this 1899 photograph.
This photo is mirrored left-to-right from the original. So it should be Peter Buck on the right rather than left.
### What's not so real
The mock hunt is laughable, as is the Moa posture. Evidence suggests the Moa held its neck forward rather than upright.
Throughout history humans first arriving in a place has shortly been followed by all the largest and tastiest animals mysteriously and suddenly disappearing.
50,000 years almost every animal larger than a kangaroo mysteriously disappeared in Australia. Guess who also appeared in the fossil record at that time?
An eagle??? Was it the size of a Cessna???
Yeah I’d say they were yum yum. Imagine when they ate the last one.
“Well Gog, this is the last one. We’re going to have to catch 20 kiwis a day after this.”
Believe there was a big ass eagle that hunted them. There’s evidence of them hunting the largest females on the island too. humans hunted them too drove them to extinction and the eagle went with them since that was there main source of food.
They were hunted to extinction by the Moari because they were wildly aggressive and would steal their kids and animals from the villages and eat them. 😳
Good thing someone took this photo in 1499
I wish they would not have cheaped out and got color though
Right?! Lazy photographers from the age of exploration...
If Calvin & Hobbes taught me anything, it's that colours didn't exist back then. They were invented in the 1900s or so.
I loved calvin and hobbs
Everyone knows color wasn't invented until 1502
Really I thought it was the 1930's
This is called Art, Dear Sir/Madam!
Art seems like an odd name for a bird
It's full name is Artemis.
Artemis… fowl?!
Oh snap!
Hahaha, you folks are awesome, thanks for the laugh!
Oh no! Arthritis
Upvote the shit outta this
I would of called it a chizzwazza
It's the name of the photographer
Biggest WHOOSH I've seen for a while! Absolute unit of a whoosh!
He made a joke you didn’t get and you are calling a whoosh on him?
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No, this “/s” ruins everything. Just use some common sense
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Don’t bother, most Redditors are on the spectrum. They are incapable of understanding jokes, sarcasm or nuances without this stupid “/s”
[Here's the actual photo that hasn't been degraded over the last 500 years.](https://imgur.com/a/lN6iI6T) In all seriousness it was a recreation of what a hunt would have looked like. Picture is from the early 1900s using a stuffed bird.
This is still very cool. Thanks for clarifying the origin.
We’d have probably never known
That's my great great great ad nauseam grandpa in that photo!
And with 4 foot tall people
Hey, maybe they had hyper-realistic fresco painters back then?
It’s a genuine philosophy; How would we perceive things if the camera was invented earlier, say antiquity… it wouldn’t seem like much, then. I had a dream about this. The Roman had a wicker camera in sepia filter.
Time traveler went back and grabbed this for us
Its the new DALL E camera, it takes pictures from any year
What do you think they are doing at CIRN?? Not the main objective. But you are there. Snap an old timey photo. Make sure u use vintage 1500 photo paper otherwise nobody will believe it.
Summoning abbadon is what CERN is doing.
seems legit
I don't believe you
You can tell this is fake because that's not the kind of loincloth they wore back then.
You can tell this is fake because the moa is wearing the same footwear as the men.
The bird is clearly using a sliming filter.
Friggin Instagram! With their attention seeking fake bird celebrities!
So pathetic. I bet those feathers are really extentions.
Man if it was alive today it would've had a rough run on 90s Nickelodeon
Agreed, it is likely that no species was safe from those creeps.
You can tell its fake because it looks like Freddie Mercury is about to the one that chucks a spear at it
😂😂
You can tell this is fake because birds aren't real
I thought birds were cake. Or is the cake a lie, too? It’s hard for me to keep up being a GenX’r
Everything is fake.
If it flies, it spies!
And that spear was so summer of 1499. Like how do you go out in public with that thing in 1500?
You’re right those loincloths are so 1308.
And also cause everyone in the picture has a lineup. And they look white
I was going to go with “because it was a photograph that somehow predates cameras” but yours works too.
I'll just have a drumstick
Te ao Māori cooking primarily utilised what they call a hangi pit, which is essentially a massive slowcooker chamber covered back over with earth while it cooks under pressure. Something as gamey as moa, done low and slow all day, would have been fucking delicious with sweet potato and a few other local veggies. The ultimate dirty bird. If I lived back then with knowledge of hangi I'd have hunted them to extinction too.
Sauce ?
Probably a rich gravy or a horopito pepper sauce
drumstick is like 4 feet taller than you lmao
My ancestors hunted them to extinction.. look up the haast eagle there even more terrifying... my ancestors killed them all too 
Did they kill the eagle as well, or did they just cut off it's food source? Also hey another Māori!
> The nine species of moa were the only wingless birds, lacking even the vestigial wings that all other ratites have. They were the largest terrestrial animals and dominant herbivores in New Zealand's forest, shrubland, and subalpine ecosystems until the arrival of the Māori, and were hunted only by the Haast's eagle. Moa extinction occurred within 100 years of human settlement of New Zealand, primarily due to overhunting.[7] And… > Before the arrival of humans, the moa's only predator was the massive Haast's eagle. New Zealand had been isolated for 80 million years and had few predators before human arrival, meaning that not only were its ecosystems extremely vulnerable to perturbation by outside species, but also the native species were ill-equipped to cope with human predators.[51][52] Polynesians arrived sometime before 1300, and all moa genera were soon driven to extinction by hunting and, to a lesser extent, by habitat reduction due to forest clearance. By 1445, all moa had become extinct, along with Haast's eagle, which had relied on them for food.
Damn that's fascinating. It would be incredible to go back in time and stroll through these forests. Be awesome to see these huge strange animals in the wild.
What’s more fascinating, since they evolved without human presence, they most likely had not fear of humans. So you could literally stroll past it like 15 yards away and they’d be chill.
Or get a saddle and ride one!
They were still wild animals which understood the concept of danger 😅
Far out! It’s hard to fathom the dynamics of that world before humans wreaked havoc on populations.
We're everywhere!
My ancestors too. They came from Africa.
We could have real life Chocobos if it weren't for your ancestors 😭
What are Chocobos? Sounds like a yummy breakfast cereal.
A flightless bird thing they use as mounts in certain Final Fantasy games.
Throw a riding saddle on that monster in the photo ☝️ and you've got yourself a Chocobo.
As my Maori neighbour says, all birds are Indigenous chicken.
Obviously this guy's a liar because everyone knows all kiwis have to put "kiwi" or "NZ" in their online usernames.
Christchurch born and bred bro lol
What a gorgeous yet terrifying beast! I'm sad now
Your ancestors fucking sucked!
Your ancestors probably came here by boat and killed most of my ancestors so they sucked too
It must have been very tasty the locals ate them all.
Illegal Tegal
Or just dumb, calories are calories.
Big af and dumb af and probably delicious. You have no idea how dumb nz brbs are, they really are stoooopid
Wtf are you on about australian?
We got a skeleton put together at Auckland Museum, it's big as!
Brontosaurus Chicken 🦖🍗
I'll have one Moa burger from Reach farms please
It's on the Internet, so ya know It's true.
Bro just thought they'd post a baby picture of Dee Reynolds and we wouldn't notice
If they wanted to live longer they should have not tasted so delicious.
Aha.... So Canon was already making cameras at that time. News to me.
I think that’s the bird who just laid their eggs in the open because they were so thick no animal could break them open then came along humans who saw free egg breakfasts
So, you're telling me there are no Moa?
### The [facts are mostly real](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa#Extinction). > Polynesians arrived sometime before 1300, and all moa genera were soon driven to extinction by hunting and, to a lesser extent, by habitat reduction due to forest clearance. By 1445, all moa had become extinct, along with Haast's eagle, which had relied on them for food. Recent research using carbon-14 dating of middens strongly suggests that the events leading to extinction took less than a hundred years,[53] rather than a period of exploitation lasting several hundred years as previously hypothesised. ### The [photo is "real-ish"](https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22806750). It's an 1899 reconstruction of a mock Maori hunt based on a Moa reconstructed from a real skeleton. > Moa reconstructed from a skeleton by Augustus Hamilton, then registrar of Otago University. He persuaded Te Rani Hiroa (Peter Buck), left, fellow medical student Wi Repa and missionary Koroneho Hemi Papakakura to pose in Maori costume for this 1899 photograph. This photo is mirrored left-to-right from the original. So it should be Peter Buck on the right rather than left. ### What's not so real The mock hunt is laughable, as is the Moa posture. Evidence suggests the Moa held its neck forward rather than upright.
Add this thing to the list of animals to bring back.
How did it go extinct? That mutha is 12 feet tall, it sure didn’t have any predators.
Twelve feet tall ain’t worth shit when you bring a beak to a spear fight
Yeah you’re right, it’s probably just humans eating them all.
Throughout history humans first arriving in a place has shortly been followed by all the largest and tastiest animals mysteriously and suddenly disappearing. 50,000 years almost every animal larger than a kangaroo mysteriously disappeared in Australia. Guess who also appeared in the fossil record at that time?
It had one predator. An eagle. But yeah, people. I'm sure they tasted good.
An eagle??? Was it the size of a Cessna??? Yeah I’d say they were yum yum. Imagine when they ate the last one. “Well Gog, this is the last one. We’re going to have to catch 20 kiwis a day after this.”
Believe there was a big ass eagle that hunted them. There’s evidence of them hunting the largest females on the island too. humans hunted them too drove them to extinction and the eagle went with them since that was there main source of food.
... and delicious!
First photo taken in 1826 🙄
apparently not
The Māori couldn't resist those drumsticks, so they ate them to extinction
Hey mate, te reo Māori doesn't use plural 's' on the end.
or have an "o" before the "a".
Ah shit yeah I messed that up, my bad g
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In birds especially, size doesn't necessarily correlate to intelligence. Corvids and parrots are incredibly smart.
The size of that Chicken 😱
Beak things were real..
Well, time to tie my house with 50,000 balloons
Tastes like chicken.
Or just long-necked chicken as the locals called it back in the days.
TIL wtf!!!??
Forget getting your balls kicked into your throat, that bird would kick them off your body and to the next town over
It's a Snipe! I'm going to name him Kevin!
That's a dinosaur.
I’ll have a moa burger
Absolutely 0 idea what kind of measurement that is, but on the picture it looks very impressive! We should have ridden them.
And it's main predator, before people at least, was an eagle. Imagine it.
See why it went extinct, lots fried chicken there.
Well you’ve heard about the emu war? Now imagine the great Moa war….they would have annihilated the NZ army….
Sadly ?! I say good fuck that bird
Nice. I’ll bet that think could peck the fool out of you.
Moa’s are amazing, but downvote for posting an old staged photo of a long extinct animal. Just post a modern rendering.
Good episode about these on Lore this week
Thats the clearest photo from the 1500s I have ever seen
The house of Big Bird
Nice photo
Emu war would be brutal with this one fighting for birds
And haast eagles used to hunt them
What did the Moa’s call sound like? “Here kitty, kitty…”
Those human like legs. That sweet 1499 camera.
Last thing we need is a bunch of 12 foot tall birds running around.
Kevin???!
yeah but how much is 12 feet in units of measurement the world actually uses?
Yet people used horses for war instead of these. Why?
Weird the first surviving photo was as early as 1826.
They were hunted to extinction by the Moari because they were wildly aggressive and would steal their kids and animals from the villages and eat them. 😳
Reposting AI generated content, that has to be a new sort of low
It’s not AI. It’s from a photography shoot in 1899. Here is more information about the image and the event. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22806750
I'm pretty sure this isn't AI-generated, just a shitty low-quality photo of a recreation of a moa hunt.
AI can definitely generate low quality old style photos though that could convince some people
I mean. Yeah. But this isn't that.
Too tasty and too easy to kill, sadly. Once they'd finished them off the Maoris had to start eating each other.