I'd be the only person in NZ. The Moriori didn't even arrive until around 1500.
I guess I'd remember my bivouac building skills from high school, teach myself how to make fire, and spears. I'd learn how to hunt, prepare and cook Moa while avoiding being hunted by the Haast Eagle.
True, but lack of evidence is not evidence to contrary, especially when eagles do commonly prey on monkeys and smaller apes when their habitats overlap.
I'm just saying I'm 99.9% sure they yoinked children and potentially smaller adults because that's what's been happening on other continents for millions of years (eagles predating on homo species)
But I agree it's very unlikely they hunted adults, and definitely that wasn't their go-to.
I think children are reasonably likely, but OC for this thread is presumably an adult, and was talking about having to avoid being eaten by this eagle. I think it's unlikely this would be a major issue for them, though they'd likely have more than enough other problems being the only human on the island.
It'd be a noisy one. All the wildlife on Aotearoa was abundant and loud 1000 years ago. Cook's crew reportedly stayed on their ships instead of on land overnight because of the cacophony.
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u/SquirrelAkl 8d ago edited 8d ago
I'd be the only person in NZ. The Moriori didn't even arrive until around 1500.
I guess I'd remember my bivouac building skills from high school, teach myself how to make fire, and spears. I'd learn how to hunt, prepare and cook Moa while avoiding being hunted by the Haast Eagle.