Documentary Description
Flightless parrots, burrowing bats, giant skinks and kangaroos in
trees – on the isolated islands of the South Pacific, the wildlife has
evolved in extraordinary ways. But island living can carry a high
price, for when new species arrive, all hell breaks loose. And there
lies a puzzle: why do animals perfectly adapted to island life simply
give up the ghost? The answer is revealed by the remarkable stories of
some unlikely animals that survived on tiny islands off the coast of
New Zealand.
And, the human history of the region is further evidence that,
however idyllic it may appear, life on a South Pacific island may never
be very far from catastrophe
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