Timeline for Would Elephant Bird Light Cavalry be feasible?
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 23:47 | comment | added | user6030 | You might also want to consider the moa from Australia, near the same size but also extinct. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 21:56 | comment | added | Twelfth | Remember bird bones are hollow (or atleast semi-hollow..I should use the term porous) and a good portion of it's visable mass is simply a fluff of feathers...a full grown elephant bird is likely quite comparable to a horse in weight | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 21:20 | comment | added | Fayth85 | @SteveJessop No arguing that fact. I'm still looking forward to those bear mounts. That's going to be entertaining. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 21:11 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | "any creature large enough ... is a viable war-time mount". But if you try to present that case to large creatures in those terms, most of them disagree, and they're large enough that they usually win the argument ;-) | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 17:45 | comment | added | cobaltduck | If the cassowary is any indication, domestication will be an almost insurmountable task (pun intended.) +1. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 17:37 | history | answered | Fayth85 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |