My Birthday Wish

From the BBC:

“A Kent, U.K., antiques dealer and paleontologist is offering for sale a giant egg laid by an elephant bird.  Asking price?  £5,000 (more than $7,000 U.S.).  The egg, thought to be one of the biggest in the world, has a circumference of more than three feet.  It once held a baby elephant bird, but at some point in its history it was broken and repaired and is now hollow.  Elephant birds were the world’s largest flightless bird — weighing half a ton and standing more than 10 feet tall — before becoming extinct in the mid-1600s.  ‘The egg has a great social history. The Madagascan Elephant Bird was the only giant bird to exist with man, and man caused its extinction,’ said egg seller John Shepherd. ‘It’s nice to be able to show children today about environmental issues that have been going on for hundreds of years.’”

I’m glad there’s no baby elephant bird in there any more.