Based on its long legs, the researchers suggested it lived in two possible ways – either as a fast runner or near water, similar to birds like cranes or herons.
Its drama The Boy And The Heron, loosely based on the life of creator Hayao Miyazaki, beat the favourite – the superhero fantasy Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse.
Herons plodded the shores, kingfishers and cuckoos clattered from sunlight to shade, great turkeylike birds fussed in dead branches, and hawks hung overhead.