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Æpyornis Island
"Æpyornis Island", or ''"Aepyornis Island"'', is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1894 in the ''Pall Mall Budget''.〔, accessed 16 Sept 2014.〕 It was included in ''The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents'', the first collection of short stories by Wells, first published in 1895.
In the story, a man looking for eggs of the Aepyornis, an extinct flightless bird, passes two years alone on a small island with an Aepyornis that has hatched.
==Historical background==
''Aepyornis maximus'' was a giant flightless bird that lived in Madagascar; it became extinct probably because it was hunted excessively by humans. The bird was about 3 metres tall and its egg was up to nine litres in capacity. Fragments of the eggs are still found.〔(Maurice Wilson (1914-1987) ''Aepyornis maximus'' ) Natural History Museum, accessed 17 Sept 2014.〕
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