“…They became extinct as a result of overhunting and habitat destruction shortly after Polynesians settled in the thirteenth century (Anderson, 1989;Holdaway and Jacomb, 2000;Allentoft et al, 2014;Holdaway et al, 2014). As is the case for most extinct taxa, little is known about their biology except some insights into their feeding habits, gained from their gut contents and genetic and morphological analyses of coprolites (e.g., Burrows et al, 1981;Burrows, 1989;Wood et al, 2008Wood et al, , 2013.…”