 Especially in the light of French traveller Jean Feuilley's 1705 report, it seems that adult birds were not usually hunted at least part of the year.This, and the remoteness of its habitat, perhaps explains why the birds were able to persist for longer than most other Réunion endemics, which were extinct by 1700.In this regard, it is perhaps no coincidence that the takahe persisted in similar montane grassland in remote Fiordland after it had been hunted to extinction in all other parts of New Zealand.