A Cook Strait giant weta on Mana Island. These weta, the most docile of all giant weta, managed to coexist on Mana with a large population of mice for 150 years, before the rodents were exterminated in 1990.
ROD MORRIS
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Forest and Bird, Issue 280, 1 May 1996, Page 6
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40A Cook Strait giant weta on Mana Island. These weta, the most docile of all giant weta, managed to coexist on Mana with a large population of mice for 150 years, before the rodents were exterminated in 1990. ROD MORRIS Forest and Bird, Issue 280, 1 May 1996, Page 6
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