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.
