Land Of The Kiwi
Land of the Kiwi is a film that discusses the physical features of the islands more commonly known as New Zealand. The aspects presented in the film had to do with the natural history of New Zealand and how the environment has a tremendous effect upon the evolution and development upon the plant life and animal life upon these particular islands. The isolation, weather and climate changes are all discussed in the film. And also how life was able to adapt itself to these influential changes. It also shows a number of very unique plants and animals that are found only in New Zealand and no where else in the world caused by the isolation of New Zealand for such a long time. Last of all, the film discusses how the natural history of New Zealand carries on to this day and is visible by the constant eruptions and activities of volcanoes, and also shifts of the Pacific plate and Indian-Australian plate meet at a fault line going through New Zealand. New Zealand is made up of two main islands, called the North Island and the South Island. In New Zealand is a mountain range the stretches 300 miles long, which according to geological research helps to prove that New Zealand was part of the former super-contin
The cowry tree is one of the oldest types of trees to have survived from ancient times. As it grows it sheds its branches and can live up to 2,000 years old. They on average grow to about 100 feet tall, and are excellent sources of timber. The cowry however, is now protected in New Zealand to help preserve its existence. Another common tree that is unique yet very useful is the Southern beach tree. This tree is also the host to a number of insects that are unique to New Zealand. The well known “pohutukawa” tree is an not from New Zealand originally, but it is today only found in New Zealand because the tree had no natural predators there to kill it off. The Nikau palm is also found only in New Zealand. ent called “Gondwanaland”. However, this was an event that took place about 80 million years ago. For this long period of time, the islands and the life on it went through its own evolutionary course, making New Zealand have some of the most strange and unusual plant and animal life in the world. Some other interesting fauna that have survived and evolved in New Zealand is the provocative tree fern. This unique plant is a fern but grows to the size of a tree which is very unusual because ferns are found only as shrubs all over the world. The bush cricket averages to about inches in leg span and is covered with thorns in its armored body. The males also using the thorns on its legs as weapons when fighting other males for a female. Another very interesting animal found here is the Tuatara, which is a type of lizard. This lizard is heralded to be the ancestor of some dinosaurs and has survived in New Zealand to this very day. The live in burrowed holes in the ground and prey on insects including bush crickets which the film shows the tuatara chomping on. This independent course of revolution due in part also because of the lack of human contact. Humans discovered the “land of the kiwi” only about 1200 years ago. Also because of the lack of common predators like snakes, cats, and dogs only reenforced the uniqueness of the ch
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Zealand Zealand,
South America,
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Land Kiwi,
Zealand Gondwanaland,
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