Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men “frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them.”

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  • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    Oh no that’s my take too. If you make a positive choice to be a brit, especially of a colonial outpost, you need to go back to britain.