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NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 29--The Harvard-bound ketch Miru left here late today on the last leg of its 10,000 mile journey from New Zealand to Boston...
Davis set sail from New Zealand during the summer. He wanted to test a thesis of his on the trip from New Zealand to Peru--that the currents which took the Polynessians across the Pacific also went the other way, and they could have returned to Peru merely by shifting currents. It took him 68 storm-battered days to reach Peru...
When white men came to New Zealand, there were tuataras all over the place, but man's pets and camp followers (dogs, cats, rats, etc.) almost wiped them out. Only on a few small islands did they survive. Even there the cats harried them until the New Zealand government curbed the cats. Then the tuataras multiplied and they are now just plentiful enough to be shared with a few foreign zoos...
Curator Oliver would like to breed tuataras in the Bronx Zoo, but they have no external sexual characteristics. The only way to distinguish males from females is to wait for the mating season, when the tuataras, croaking, make their own decisions. New Zealand is not yet ready to release enough tuataras for this auto-selection experiment...
...Name of a Pacific defense union (consisting of Australia, New Zealand...