"Not bad, " he told his companions as he masticated fresh rolls with jam and butter, aepyornis egg, bacon, and fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
190 kilograms makes the largest of the phorusrhacids the biggest predatory birds, hands down (OK, unless you accept Gregory S Paul's neoflightless phylogeny that actually nests the dromaeosaurids within aves). 190 kilograms does not make them even close to as big as a 400 kilogram moa (largest dinornis species), or hold a cnadle to the real heavyweights like dromornis stirtoni and aepyornis maximus (both around 500 kilos). From Wordnik.com. [Big Bird] Reference
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