Talk:Upland moa

DNA from foot/head?
Has there been any mentiation that Viable DNA was found in the remains, or if it is at least is in a place for presvervation? 68.222.134.159 (talk) 05:38, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Depends on what you mean by "viable". Genetic studies have been done on all moa species.

Orphaned references in Upland moa
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Upland moa's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Bunce": From Moa: Bunce, M., et al. (2003) From Haast's eagle:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 21:49, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Can someone find images which properly represent the bird in it's normal. head lowered. position
All of the images and the mounted skeleton show the initial, incorrect attitude of the moa's head and neck, according to the article. Wizodd0 (talk) 01:16, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * That they probably held their necks horizontally in general doesn't mean they they were unable to lift the heads. So I wouldn't say the images are downright incorrect, they just don't show the habitual pose. I could imagine they would lift their heads when startled, or similar. See for example this cassowary, which the source compares with the moas. In any case, if free images showing horizontal necks could be found, it would of course be nice. FunkMonk (talk) 12:23, 13 April 2017 (UTC)