Yeah, but they were ... they were killed off before Europeans arrived in New Zealand.

对，不过在欧洲西兰以前，恐鸟就被杀绝了。

Did you know that there is a giant extinct bird called the moa?

你是否知道，曾有一种名为恐鸟的巨型已灭绝鸟类？

Then there was the Haast's eagle, the largest eagle ever known to exist. It hunted the moa.

还有哈斯特巨鹰，这是已知存在过的最大型的鹰。它捕猎恐鸟。

Another famous New Zealand bird is the 3.6-metre-tall moa. These flightless birds were the biggest birds that ever lived.

另一种西兰知名鸟类是3.6米高的恐鸟。这类不会飞的鸟是现存最大的鸟。

Terror birds do not follow the general rules of, of birds. They use the beak as an axe to kill prey.

恐鸟不遵循鸟类的一般规律。它们把喙当作斧头来捕猎。

Number eight is the Mount Owen Moa Foot.

第八名是欧文恐鸟山脚。

Lichtman: Terror birds flew onto the scene around 45 million years ago.

Lichtman：恐鸟大约在 4500 万年前飞现场。

So he and some colleagues studied the skulls of giant terror birds and they found something really strange.

所以他和一些同事研究了巨型恐鸟的头骨，他们发现了一些非常奇怪的东西。

Lichtman: Dino is an avian paleontologist in Argentina, and he has a special relationship with terror birds.

Lichtman：Dino是阿根廷的一名鸟类古生物家，他与恐鸟有着特殊的关系。

As it turned out, the taloned hand belonged to a moa, an extinct type of flightless bird capable of standing 3.6 meters high.

事实证明，爪子手属于恐鸟，一种灭绝的不会飞的鸟，能够站立 3.6 米高。

Degrange: No other birds, extant or fossil, in the whole history of birds, occupy the niche of this hyper-predator—only the terror birds.

德格朗日：在鸟类的整个历史中，没有其他鸟类，无论是现存的还是化石的，都占据了这种超级捕食者的位置——只有恐鸟。

It's called ornithophobia.And someday it will be recognized as a true disability, and the landlord will be required by law to put a giant net over the building.

这叫恐鸟症 而且总有一天 恐鸟症会被视为一种残疾 房东必须按照法律规定给这栋楼加一张大网。

Just as modern humans walked up to unafraid dodos and island seals and killed them, prehistoric humans presumably walked up to unafraid moas and giant lemurs and killed them too.

正如现代类走向无所畏惧的渡渡鸟和海豹并杀死它们一样，史前类也可能走向无所畏惧的恐鸟和巨型狐猴并杀死它们。

And we know from shell middens that the Maori people of New Zealand hunted moa and seals early on, but later had to switch to fish, shellfish, and small birds as the moa and seals became overhunted.

从肥堆中我们得知，生活在西兰的毛利早期狩猎恐鸟和海豹，但是后来转向捕鱼，捕捉贝类和小型鸟类，因为恐鸟和海豹都已被过度狩猎。

Only after the first Polynesian settlers had exterminated moas and decimated seal populations on New Zealand, and exterminated or decimated seabirds and land birds on other Polynesian islands, did they intensify their food production.

只有在第一批波利尼西亚定居者消灭了西兰的恐鸟和大量海豹种群，并消灭或消灭了波利尼西亚其他岛屿上的海鸟和陆地鸟类之后，他们才加强了粮食生产。