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To: bentway who wrote (318966)11/20/2016 1:39:27 PM
From: Gib Bogle  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 541922
 
Before the Maori arrived (about 900 years ago) there were no land mammals in NZ except bats. There were seals on the coast. Europeans introduced many animals, for agriculture, as pets, by accident, and for some misguided reasons similar to those that led to badgers in Argentina, but not badgers.