TUE, MAY
7
A new $12
million exhibit is set to open at Te Papa in Wellington which will feature more
than 1000 items from New Zealand’s natural world.
Te Taiao
Nature will showcase the scents from some of New Zealand's native birds
including the Kiwi, kakapo and petrel.
Te Papa
Curator Colin Miskelly says the idea behind the exhibition was to help better
understand the reasons why our native birds smell the way they do.
"Part
of the reason that we think that New Zealand birds are quite smelly compared
with birds in other parts of the world, is that there were not ground dwelling
mammals hunting by scent in New Zealand, so there was no downside to them being
a bit smelly," says Mr Miskelly.
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