Birds of New Zealand

The possums (The Australian Brushtail Possum) were first introduced to New Zealand in year 1837 for trades for their fur, meat and leather. Their fur is used to make human necessities such as gloves, hats and clothes when combined with merino wool. The possums are an important native species in Australia. In New Zealand however, they have become a huge pest, destroying our native forests and trees including Pohutukawa, Rata, Kohekohe and Kamahi. The possums have a huge appetite, not only do they…

New Zealand author Fleur Adcock’s Advice to a Discarded Lover is a poem that explores the bitter, revolting aftermath of what once was a relationship. As the title indicates, the narrator is speaking to a “discarded lover” of their negative feelings in regards to their past and what the lover should do. Throughout the poem, Adcock makes use of literary devices such as metaphor, imagery, personification and rhetorical question in a way that leaves the readers shocked by the end of reading it.…

style of the language used by the Facebook page for “Wingspan birds of prey” is quite chatty, interactive and informal. There is no identified author of the page as it represents the organization as a big family. Even in the comments or posts replied to there is no mention of the authors name. The namelessness of the authors does not seem to effect the users as they are more inclined towards information, photos or videos posted about the birds. In comparison to Pikitia, both the Facebook pages…

Question 5 a) In the text it was mentioned that the Waknuk women had a cross stitched to their dresses, and the women believed strongly in religion they also practiced it. Their hair and clothes were clean, pretty and not sterilized. But the Fringes Women were the rejects of Waknuk, as most of them were sent away because of a discovered deviation. Those women had tattered clothes, wore no crosses, did not practice or believe in religion as the Waknuk people did. They were described as “dirty”,…

Andrew Read is an evolutionary biologist. When he was young, he used work with native’s birds of New Zealand, which is his homeland. Working with birds, he began to question about how these natives birds lives longer then humans so he became an evolutionary biologist. So now, he works with malaria parasite. These parasites bread very rapidly as if they are on drugs. Therefore, Mr. Read is worried about these bugs. In the 1960, the United States surgeon General believed that we have won the war…

are made to the existing schema when adding the new instance. For example, a child knows birds have wings, feathers, and can fly. When the child learns about another animal of the same specie, such as a hawk, the child will assimilate the new information into the existing bird schema. As for accommodation, it is the process of having to adapt to include…

When the world thinks of New Zealand, they think of clean beautiful waterways, its clean green image and of course, the agriculture, but on the contrary this is actually the opposite. This false image brings in thousands of tourists every single year, benefiting immensely economically. Among tourism, the dairy industry is the biggest economic trade, earning the country around $13.7 billion NZ dollars in export alone. Dairy export in New Zealand goes way back, in 1882 we were the first country to…

Children were educated with lessons which prepared them for the daily tasks/jobs in the tribe. They learnt by watching and participating, they tended gardens, gathered seafood and birds. Some children who had natural talents for jobs were assessed to see if they could attend classes of higher learning and train as experts. What jobs were there in a tribe? In a traditional Maori tribe the Maori people worked and helped within their…

the major rivers in Sydney The wetlands is a part of a National strategy to make the sustainable use of the nation's water resources by protecting and making it better quality while maintaining economic and social development, the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council or else known as…

paramyxovirus serotype 1 virus(APMV-1). Their strains are classified according to their virulence.The surveillance aggression in a country or region for this disease is based on the type of strain that is present. Even though the virus is present in New Zealand, the low virulent strain has never caused an outbreak to occur(3). Regardless of strain, all commercial poultry practices around the world either…