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.
You totally forgot New Zealand's only native land mammal, the bat. There's an amazing video of the native bat running, because it'd evolved to be flightless like the birds.
But, the Haast Eagle was unconfirmed before this? I've been brought up and it's always been a fact to me.
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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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You totally forgot New Zealand's only native land mammal, the bat. There's an amazing video of the native bat running, because it'd evolved to be flightless like the birds.
But, the Haast Eagle was unconfirmed before this? I've been brought up and it's always been a fact to me.
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There's an amazing video of the native bat running, because it'd evolved to be flightless like the birds.
Video [youtube.com]
Shame on you for talking up something so cool and not providing a link.
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It's not actually flightless, though it does spend most of its time on the ground.
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You know, the video does show that fact around the 31 second mark. FYI.