奇妙岛屿 09 - 英语听力

Amazingly one single type of finch evolved into 58 different species

And all because the birds that normally fill these roles

Like hummingbirds and woodpeckers

Never made it to these islands

Landfall in the Pacific is a risky business

Most islands are small low and rather uniform

With few lifestyle choices on offer

But there is an archipelago that truly bucks the trend

Two of the largest islands in the Pacific

Have everything a castaway could dream of

Here lives a greater diversity of unique island creatures

Than almost anywhere else in the South Pacific

Forested valleys turbulent rivers and glacier-topped peaks

This is New Zealand

A thousand miles long

And with a mountainous spine rising one-and-a-half miles above the ocean

New Zealand offered a world of possibilities

To creatures that found their way here

On these islands the end of world live some unique animials