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Birds are often important to island ecology. Birds have frequently reached islands that mammals have not; on those islands, birds may fulfill ecological roles typically played by larger animals. For example, in New Zealand the moas were important browsers, as are the Kereru and Kokako today. Today the plants of New Zealand retain the defensive [...]

Around here, commercialized, non-denominational Easter may be our favorite holiday, thanks, in part, to the superiority of its candy, though mostly because of its cute-critter iconography. And at the center of it all is the…Read the whole article at The Newyorker