New Zealand Fauna.
 

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The biodiversity of New Zealand, is one of the most unusual on Earth, due to its long isolation from other continental landmasses.

New Zealand separated from Gondwanaland approximately 82 million years ago.

Our fauna shares some links to that of New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island, both of which are part of the same continental plate as New Zealand and in part from Australia.

The majority of the fauna being insects and birds. New Zealand only has one endemic land mammal,long and short tailed bats.

More recently humans have introduced many species to New Zealand both intentional and unintentional.

As an example,the Praying Mantis section contains several pages showing the lifecycle of Miomantis caffra,an imported mantid from South Africa. It was first recorded in Auckland in 1978 and is now widespread through the northern part of New Zealand,displacing our native mantid, Orthodera novaezealandiae as it goes.

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