Elephant-bird
Aepyornis

Apenheul Apeldoorn
(Nederland)

Life size.
This means that the head stands ± 3 meters high.

1996

± 10 weeks

This model was build to strand outside and to be stong enough to survive small Maki’s to climb all over it. Even people can reach it. For this reconstruction I also used pictures of the skeleton and pictures and drawings of living relatives of the bird.
Encyclopedia of birds,
Fundaments of onithology,
Ornitologie, The cambridge encyclopedia,
Madagascar ( a world out of time),
Green indonesia