1: they are a beautiful bird. 2: farmers and wild life rangers would have stuffed many of them onboard their ships when evacuating reach. 3: farmers would have sold them as live stalk to other colonys on earth. 4: jackles would have called them "delishus treasher" and plundered them onboard their ships as their own food source they would farm. 5: bruits would have brutally taken billions of them off the planet as a food source and forced a more responsible spices to farm them so they can eat more and get fatter. 6: for months I thought they where emues. 7: they would have been released into the wild on planets with wild life and no civilizations. 8: they lay big eggs. 9: their not dodos 10: they don't deserve to be extinced. 11: some, no, hundreds of the ships that fled earth would have been trying to lead the covenant away from other planets in earths collenys. This means they could be stuck on a ship for tens of years with limited cargo space for food, or adrift for hundreds of years not knowing the war is over and their no longer being chased, with nothing to eat but plants grown in the ship, and live stalk such as cows and moa.