> It was an untouched bird paradise. Not quite entirely birds, but no land mammals except tiny bats. Humans made their mark pretty quickly and destructively.

> It was an untouched bird paradise. Not quite entirely birds, but no land mammals except tiny bats. Humans made their mark pretty quickly and destructively. As a New Zealander, this to me is one of the saddest pages on the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_species_extinct_in_the_Holocene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_species_ex...