Today, other flightless members of this family, like the Aldabra rail shown here, still live on oceanic islands where they evolved in the absence of predators and had no need to fly. The Haitian ...

I could see flightless Aldabra rails, coconut crabs the size of ... and a frigatebird or a coconut crab or a flightless rail. We were all part of the ecosystem, and they treated humans as they ...