Actually there is no evidence that there was ever any land animals whatsoever in NZ except for lizards, insects and spiders. Unless you count flightless birds.
Actually there is no evidence that there was ever any land animals whatsoever in NZ except for lizards, insects and spiders. Unless you count flightless birds.
So, aside from the sheep-eating lizards, poisonous insects, deadly spiders, and territorial (and vicious) birds... you'd be perfectly safe.
So, aside from the sheep-eating lizards, poisonous insects, deadly spiders, and territorial (and vicious) birds... you'd be perfectly safe.
Deadly spiders? New Zealand has no snakes and only one species of poisonous spider (the Katipo [wikipedia.org]) that's rare, endangered, and found only on coastlands (eg. not inland). The next worse thing (probably a whitetail spider [wikipedia.org]) merely makes you nauseous, and is not deadly.
Because of the tectonic plate movement New Zealand drifted off before animals and before evolution favoured
Deadly spiders? New Zealand has no snakes and only one species of poisonous spider
That's because the Maori's ate them all. Seriously, the bloody Maori's are the only native race to ever get a treaty from the vicious pommy bastard tribe!
That's because the Maori's ate them all. Seriously, the bloody Maori's are the only native race to ever get a treaty from the vicious pommy bastard tribe!
That's an interesting assertion. How are you defining native? And treaty? (I'm assuming that 'vicious pommy bastard tribe' refers to us inhabitants of the sceptred isle) Surely Britain must have had a number of treaties with Indian principalities (although I suppose that would have been the East India Company rather than the British state). I thought however that Britain did enter into treaties with a number of native American tribes around the time of US independence.
Well, to be explicit, I'm a Cascadian Culturalist. And a Catholic Culturalist. In that I see in those two meta cultures something beyond normal humanity.
But that doesn't excuse the way Northern Europeans have done colonialism- over and over and over.....
Professional wrestling: ballet for the common man.
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So it wasn't the dingo, after all.
No dingos in NZ.
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Of course not! Not any more -- did you see the size of those Dingo eating birds?
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Actually there is no evidence that there was ever any land animals whatsoever in NZ except for lizards, insects and spiders. Unless you count flightless birds.
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Actually there is no evidence that there was ever any land animals whatsoever in NZ except for lizards, insects and spiders. Unless you count flightless birds.
So, aside from the sheep-eating lizards, poisonous insects, deadly spiders, and territorial (and vicious) birds... you'd be perfectly safe.
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Deadly spiders? New Zealand has no snakes and only one species of poisonous spider (the Katipo [wikipedia.org]) that's rare, endangered, and found only on coastlands (eg. not inland). The next worse thing (probably a whitetail spider [wikipedia.org]) merely makes you nauseous, and is not deadly.
Because of the tectonic plate movement New Zealand drifted off before animals and before evolution favoured
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Deadly spiders? New Zealand has no snakes and only one species of poisonous spider
That's because the Maori's ate them all. Seriously, the bloody Maori's are the only native race to ever get a treaty from the vicious pommy bastard tribe!
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That's an interesting assertion. How are you defining native? And treaty? (I'm assuming that 'vicious pommy bastard tribe' refers to us inhabitants of the sceptred isle) Surely Britain must have had a number of treaties with Indian principalities (although I suppose that would have been the East India Company rather than the British state). I thought however that Britain did enter into treaties with a number of native American tribes around the time of US independence.
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I think he meant a treaty that actually survived more than a few weeks.
You've got to admit, among native tribal peoples, we whites descended from Englishmen and Northern Europeans have a horrible reputation for lying.
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Well, to be explicit, I'm a Cascadian Culturalist. And a Catholic Culturalist. In that I see in those two meta cultures something beyond normal humanity.
But that doesn't excuse the way Northern Europeans have done colonialism- over and over and over .....