its tibiotarsus length is not precisely known; if it had the proportions found in elephant birds and moa, it would have been 80–90 cm long. but there is no real reason to assume that "eremopezus", living in wetlands rich in predators, was similar to these bulky lumbering insular ratites. the tibiotarsus of dpc 20919 preserves most of the bone and is as long as the complete tarsometatarsus already (34 cm); an overall tibiotarsus length of c. 40–50 cm, as found in the small slow-moving elephant bird "mullerornis agilis" and the nimble emu, is a reasonable estimate.