What are some animals in New Zealand?
New Zealand, located about 2000 km (1250 miles) southeast of Australia, has some of the most unique animals in the world. This is because the island is large enough to maintain a large ecosystem, but isolated enough that the main animals are birds and rodents, with special emphasis on birds. New Zealand has the most biological diversity in the world that was even more impressive than dozens of species extinct due to people's intervention and introduced species. Fortunately, rare animals in New Zealand are among the best protected in the world, thanks to the aggressive efforts to protect the government in recent decades. There are many extinct animals that once lived there, including ten MOA species that were large birds without flight; Haast Jeeagle, which is the largest eagle ever to live; Adzebills, great all -powerful birds without flights related to "terrorist birds" of South America; and at least one poorly understandable "spiritual lines" of mammals that cannot be classified as monotrems, placenta or marsupiale.
The most famous animals in New Zealand is probably kiwi, a small lethal bird that appears on the arm in New Zealand. "Kiwi" is also a colloquial term for New Zealand. Kiwis are ratite, like ostriches, but they are just the size of the chicken, which makes them the smallest live rattes with a large edge. Kiwis has a long, thin beak they use to test in the country for insects. Throughout New Zealand, where Kiwis are endangered by predators, they are shy and night, rarely are visible.
Other unique animals in New Zealand are kakapo, a parrot without flight and New Zealand Wrens, which is expected to have branched from other passerin birds for the first time more than 80 million years ago. Kakapo is one of the most endangered animals in New Zealand or in the world, with only known 90 living individuals. Their almost extinction is attributed to their withoutYou are in nature and loud mating, which had an evolutionary sense until the recent introduction of mammalists such as cats. Ecological shrines have been set aside specially for kakapo and the population of birds is recovering.
New Zealand is also home to one of the largest insects in the world, Weta, who looks like a hybrid between cockroach and grasshopper. This insect can have a body length of 12 cm (4 inches), without their long legs and antennas. Their large size is a by -product of their occupation ecological niches that rodents would occupy in other parts of the world. The greatest Wetas weighs the sparrow.