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Hylaeornis
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Name:
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Hylaeornis maximus
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Abilities and Weapons:
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Legs, High Speed
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Occupation:
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Generalist forager
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Home:
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Skull Island
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First Appearance:
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"The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island" (from 2005)
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Diet:
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Omnivore
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Size:
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Height: 2.5 meters
Weight Estimated: 67-81 kilograms |
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Status:
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Saved from Extinction during the 1938 expedition on Skull Island.
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The Hylaeornis maximus ("big forest bird") is a common, agile, flightless cariamiform from the jungles of Skull Island. It measures 4-5 feet tall to the hip or 8.2 feet tall in total (2.5 meters).
Facts[]
The common and widespread Hylaeornis are ground-nesting birds, making their nests in the deep shadows between the roots of giant trees. Flightless, their agility and speed through the jungle is their greatest defense against predators like Dinocanisaurus, Scimitodon, Foetodon, Stickalithus and (if it is near the edge of a swamp) Piranhadon, though they can deliver a kick that wise predators know to be wary of when cornered.
Despite being cousins to the more ferocious Terror Birds like Brutornis or Zeropteryx, Hylaeornis is a mostly harmless omnivorous forager that bears more in common with other ratites. A Terror Bird it is not.
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Trivia[]
- Hylaeornis would have had large clutches of eggs and a good survival rate into adulthood if it were to be considered a 'common bird' in Skull Island.
- Like all animals from Skull Island. It is unknown what they faced during the sinking of the island. Given the multiple expeditions, there may be a chance that a few surviving populations was saved off-land to a more stable enclosure.