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Amazingly, |
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one single type of finch evolved into 58 different species and all because the birds that normally fill these roles, |
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like hummingbirds and woodpeckers, never made it to these islands. |
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Landfall in the Pacific is a risky business. |
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Most islands are small, low and rather uniform, |
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with few lifestyle choices on offer. |
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But there is an archipelago that truly bucks the trend. |
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Two of the largest islands in the Pacific have everything a castaway could dream of. |
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Here lives a greater diversity of unique island creatures than almost anywhere else in the South Pacific. |
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Forested valleys, turbulent rivers and glacier-topped peaks， |
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this is New Zealand. |
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A thousand miles long and with a mountainous spine rising one-and-a-half miles above the ocean, |
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New Zealand offered a world of possibilities to creatures that found their way here. |
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