A little ray of sunshine from New Zealand

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from New Zealand

Post by GT93 » March 4, 2022, 12:53 am

Legal prostitution is a better policy than making it illegal. Feel free to suggest a country that makes it illegal and has good and widely supported outcomes.

After a 2 week protest, the NZ cops finally cleared out the nutters hanging out in our unfenced Parliament grounds:

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That end of the city had become unsafe. For student safety reasons, a local high school had to close and go to online classes. These protestors were very feral.


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Re: A little ray of sunshine from New Zealand

Post by pepesgrill » March 4, 2022, 3:12 am

" come visit feral new zealand " im not sure
if thats a winning tourism slogan " let's throw
another tourist on barbie "
after that volcano
disaster where (25) burned to death. do the cruise
ships still stop there? it's just a cesspit of despair.
you have your fair share nutters& sheep " herders"

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from New Zealand

Post by pepesgrill » March 6, 2022, 3:05 am

what's this kerfuffle about " the power of dog"

some american gay western, filmed in NZ by a
NZ director, actor sam elliot calls pure dogsh*t

who wants to see benedict cumberbatch running
around in chaps & no clothes? the sheepherders =;

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from New Zealand

Post by GT93 » March 6, 2022, 3:56 am

Not followed that one. Our Deputy PM is a homo so we wouldn't really be concerned about gay American actors working out here.

The border has been closed for over 2 years so there haven't been any cruise ships for two years. They dock in downtown Auckland and their absence is one reason the central city has been devastated by the meat eaters virus. The other is the absence of international students. I miss the people from overseas. The more the better. And I include the Chinese in that.
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Post by GT93 » March 6, 2022, 4:22 am

Perhaps I should add the border opened for the first time in two years to New Zealanders on Thursday. We don't need to enter through managed isolation and quarantine facilities. There's some speculation that the Omicron peak has passed in Auckland but the rest of the country is 2 to 3 weeks behind Auckland. Some experts have been speculating 50,000 to 100,000 people a day (in a population of 5 million) have at times been catching the virus. And there were 5 deaths from the meat eaters virus in Auckland yesterday; none outside Auckland.
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Post by Laan Yaa Mo » March 6, 2022, 10:34 am

GT93 wrote:
March 6, 2022, 4:22 am
Perhaps I should add the border opened for the first time in two years to New Zealanders on Thursday. We don't need to enter through managed isolation and quarantine facilities. There's some speculation that the Omicron peak has passed in Auckland but the rest of the country is 2 to 3 weeks behind Auckland. Some experts have been speculating 50,000 to 100,000 people a day (in a population of 5 million) have at times been catching the virus. And there were 5 deaths from the meat eaters virus in Auckland yesterday; none outside Auckland.
Does New Zealand have any weird animals like Australia? I know they have beautiful fjords, but unique looking animals might be interesting for the prospective tourist.
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Post by tamada » March 6, 2022, 11:54 am

^ priceless
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from New Zealand

Post by GT93 » March 6, 2022, 1:46 pm

Nice one Noose but I'm a pakeha.

Butch /Earnest once posted a clip of bird song from the UK on the Map. It sounded weirdly familiar and unfamiliar to me as we have our own birds and introduced birds. The Aussies have the spectacular animals and cricketers. We separated from Gondwana about 85 million years ago. I had to look this up:
Missing species
Large, flightless animals generally cannot cross oceans. This explains why New Zealand has no land mammals, iguanas, land turtles and snakes. A number of advanced groups are missing among the ants, wasps, hornets and termites, including the most aggressive and destructive species.

Advanced groups of predators and competitors evolved elsewhere over the past 85 million years. But they could not cross the ocean and did not become established in New Zealand.

Flightless birds
Birds had no predators on the ground; they were preyed upon by a range of small to very large predatory birds. So for most birds, flight was unnecessary – even risky. Before humans arrived, a quarter of New Zealand’s land and freshwater birds were flightless. Many more were poor fliers. As they did not need to be light enough to fly, most became larger than their flying relatives. Adaptations for self-defence were all geared towards predatory birds. They included limited flight, camouflage, ground nesting and freezing when disturbed.

Species increase
Some animal groups proliferated in the absence of predators. New Zealand is home to more than 80 species of skinks and geckos, an extraordinary number for a coolish, temperate climate. The forest understorey, moss and litter habitat has over 1,400 species of snail. There are more than 1,800 moth species, and over 2,000 species of fly. This may be due to the lack of small mammal predators such as rats and mice, aggressive colonial ants, wasps and hornets, and competition from termites. Specialised invertebrates that feed on or parasitise snails are also largely absent.

In place of mammals
New Zealand’s birds, bats and insects expanded into areas and ecological roles normally occupied by mammals. The kiwi has hair-like feathers, a keen sense of smell, and powerful digging feet. Nesting in a burrow, it is much like a badger.

Moa fed in forests and grasslands like goats, deer and cattle. They became very large, in order to better deal with a coarse vegetable diet. In place of mice, flightless wrens, ground-walking bats, large carnivorous Paryphanta land snails, and giant wētā (up to 70 grams in weight) fed on the insects and plants of the forest floor. The most likely explanation for gigantism is that greater size increased the range of foods animals could eat.
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from New Zealand

Post by noosard » March 6, 2022, 6:41 pm

It was the tongue GT

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from New Zealand

Post by tamada » March 6, 2022, 7:01 pm

Bugger the tongue, did you read the bit about the giant carnivorous snails?! Even the Māoritanga didn't mess with them and they were born there.
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from New Zealand

Post by Laan Yaa Mo » March 6, 2022, 10:28 pm

GT93 wrote:
March 6, 2022, 1:46 pm
Nice one Noose but I'm a pakeha.

Butch /Earnest once posted a clip of bird song from the UK on the Map. It sounded weirdly familiar and unfamiliar to me as we have our own birds and introduced birds. The Aussies have the spectacular animals and cricketers. We separated from Gondwana about 85 million years ago. I had to look this up:
Missing species
Large, flightless animals generally cannot cross oceans. This explains why New Zealand has no land mammals, iguanas, land turtles and snakes. A number of advanced groups are missing among the ants, wasps, hornets and termites, including the most aggressive and destructive species.

Advanced groups of predators and competitors evolved elsewhere over the past 85 million years. But they could not cross the ocean and did not become established in New Zealand.

Flightless birds
Birds had no predators on the ground; they were preyed upon by a range of small to very large predatory birds. So for most birds, flight was unnecessary – even risky. Before humans arrived, a quarter of New Zealand’s land and freshwater birds were flightless. Many more were poor fliers. As they did not need to be light enough to fly, most became larger than their flying relatives. Adaptations for self-defence were all geared towards predatory birds. They included limited flight, camouflage, ground nesting and freezing when disturbed.

Species increase
Some animal groups proliferated in the absence of predators. New Zealand is home to more than 80 species of skinks and geckos, an extraordinary number for a coolish, temperate climate. The forest understorey, moss and litter habitat has over 1,400 species of snail. There are more than 1,800 moth species, and over 2,000 species of fly. This may be due to the lack of small mammal predators such as rats and mice, aggressive colonial ants, wasps and hornets, and competition from termites. Specialised invertebrates that feed on or parasitise snails are also largely absent.

In place of mammals
New Zealand’s birds, bats and insects expanded into areas and ecological roles normally occupied by mammals. The kiwi has hair-like feathers, a keen sense of smell, and powerful digging feet. Nesting in a burrow, it is much like a badger.

Moa fed in forests and grasslands like goats, deer and cattle. They became very large, in order to better deal with a coarse vegetable diet. In place of mice, flightless wrens, ground-walking bats, large carnivorous Paryphanta land snails, and giant wētā (up to 70 grams in weight) fed on the insects and plants of the forest floor. The most likely explanation for gigantism is that greater size increased the range of foods animals could eat.
Thanks for the insight into the birds of New Zealand
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