What animals lived in New Zealand?

Answer 1

Animals native to New Zealand include:

• Tuatara
• kiwi
• kakapo
• kea
• long-tailed bat
• Lesser short-tailed bat
• greater short-tailed bat
• Pukeko
• tui

Introduced animals include:

• domestic pets such as cats, dogs and guinea pigs
• all stock animals such as horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, etc
• rats and mice
• stoat
• possums

The only land mammal native to New Zealand is the bat (pekapeka).

Native animals in New Zealand are mostly birds. New Zealand's isolation meant that birds developed to fill ecological niches normally taken by mammals; hence we have the widest range of Flightless Birds in the world. Kiwi, Takahe, Pukeko, weka, kakapo are some of our flightless birds.

Kotuku, fantail, Kea, Kaka, kokako, riroriro, tui, bellbird, morepork, wood pigeon, are some other birds.

Most birds that have Maori names are named for the sound they make; the kiwi cries 'kee wee'.

There is only have one native land mammal, the bat (pekapeka).

Being a small country with a large coastline there are many species of fish, aquatic mammals and seabirds.

There are no snakes in N.Z. but there are many species of lizard, mainly skinks and geckos, and the 'living fossil' the Tuatara.

There are many imported animals - domesticated animals such as cows, sheep, cats, dogs, goats, horses etc. There are also many animals that have been introduced into the wild: rabbis, rats, deer, weasels, stoats, ferrets, possums. These have had a devastating effect on the populations of native animals.

New Zealand has one of the largest insects in the world here; the giant weta, which is like a very fat grasshopper that is the size of a mouse.

Tuatara

Takahe

Kiwi

Kokako

Kereru

Kaka

Kea

Falcon

Seals

Sheep

Tui

Weka

Gecko

Dolphin

Rainbow Trout

Eel

Grey Heron

Pipit

Oystercatchers

Blackbird

Answer 2

Well there are lots but we will start with the deer...Red Stag,Fallow Deer,Whitetailed Deer,Wapiti(ELK)and after deer there is a goat called Feral Goat(Fair-El).Now moving on to birds Kiwi Bird,Seagull and alot more shorebirds.And there are some bats and there is also a small lizard called tuatra but those are found on 30 small islands of the coast of the North Island.Well these are most of the animals that live there i hope this helped?

Answer 3

Bats are the only mammals apart from seals, dolphins and the like. NZ has the Tuatara, a relic closely related to the dinosaur age, but NOT a dinosaur in itself. And there is a wide group of lizards, and frogs, but no snakes.

Birds had little competition and almost no predation, so NZ had a large number of ground-dwelling species.

Small animals such as insects, butterflies, spiders, Peripatus, and various worms etc are well represented.

The ice ages represented a serious challenge to land form life, as did the times when the land was largely submerged. Before this there were some crocodiles, whose fossil bones have been found in the huge Lake Manuherekia, so the climate must have been warmer then.