These are prize-winning Jerseys who are fed a special diet (including molasses-laced feed) and have won prizes world-wide. They are such gentle creatures with kind eyes and soft features. These cows are special to Queen Elizabeth who visited this farm in 1990 and even acquired some jerseys from this farm, which is called Ferndon Farm in the Waikato Valley on the North Island. We stayed one night at the farm and watched some of 240 cows being milked.
This owl lived in the Aviary at Otorohanga Zoological Gardens where the largest collection of New Zealand's rare native kiwi bird is in captivity and being bred.
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The Kiwi fruit or Chinese gooseberry growing on the farm.
These are live shots of the Kiwi. They live in dark conditions on the floor of the forest and eat worms and bugs by sticking their long beaks through the debris on the forest floor. They are very shy and nocturnal. The photo had to be enhanced because of the dark conditions of their captivity when the photo was shot.
When the Europeans came to the Islands of NZ, there were no mammals to be found. They introduced rabbits and possums in hopes of selling their fur and products made from the fur. The rabbits started to proliferate and to control them, the stoat was introduced. The stoat killed rabbits but also killed kiwis who cannot fly to get away from such vicious animals. The possum also is a problem because it breeds well and eats the fruits that the native birds and animals rely on. It eats the kiwi eggs and the young kiwis. So all over NZ you see poison traps for stoats and possums. New Zealand also has a large industry selling the products made from possum skins.
A stuffed Kiwi!!
The symbolic fern of New Zealand used in every way possible from advertising to artistic work.
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