Outstanding Oceania #3

[Ailurus]

Animal 3

Takahe



The Takahe or South Island Takahe, Porphyrio hochstetteri is a flightless bird indigenous to New Zealand and belonging to the rail family. It was thought to be extinct after the last four known specimens were taken in 1898. However, after a carefully planned search effort the bird was rediscovered by Geoffrey Orbell near Lake Te Anau in the Murchison Mountains, South Island, on November 20, 1948. The specific scientific name commemorates the Austrian geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter.

The Takahe is found in alpine grasslands habitats. It eats a wide range of plant food, and its diet is similar to that of the pukeko (Purple Swamphen), the closest relative of the Takahç and the Moho. The Takahç can often be seen to pluck a snow grass grass stalk, taking it into one claw and eating only the soft lower parts which is a favorite food. The rest is discarded.

Made by Arctos (Coded by GM and skinned and meshed by Ailurus)

Comments Appreciated

[Rewjeo]

Wait, here it's called the Takahe, but at ztk, it was the Takahc or something like that.

[Ailurus]

yeh i copied the text off wikipedia and for some reason it changed the e which had a little line above it to a c with a bit underneath.

i dunno why that happened. but its the Takahe (said Tack-a-he)

[lexyx399]

i luhv the skin on the back part of it