Non-Native Pollinators (VIDEO)
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The researchers used video cameras to record more than 1,200 hours of footage of the flowers and the animals that visited them night and day. Video from the North Island of New Zealand, where endemic pollinators have largely disappeared, shows that flowers rely on the activity of non-native silvereye songbirds and invasive ship rats for pollination. In many cases, destructive animals such as the ship rat are responsible for the elimination of the species whose biological function they have taken on.
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Courtesy of David Pattemore
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