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Southern fauna: a quick comparison

At first sight, the Dutch seem to be very well-informed about New Zealand: they all want to go there for a holiday. A bit of questioning, though, often turns up a certain lack of awareness of the enormous gulf separating the Kiwi holiday experience from the Aussie one.

Here are a couple of youtube clips that might help clear up the difference.

This one is about Australia:

And this one shows pretty much the worst thing that any New Zealand wildlife is likely to do to you:

(The first was featured on Pharyngula, not sure any more where I turned up the second one.)

One Comment

  1. Well, the Kiwi fauna seems really friendly…

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 1:38 am | Permalink