[00:00.24]Born in the forest,
[00:01.82]they stay in the forest,
[00:03.52]while Mum and Dad bring fresh meals straight from the ocean.
[00:16.08]They can hear the waves,
[00:17.18]they can even smell the spray,
[00:18.64]but they have no idea what it looks like.
[00:20.63]These chicks won't have their first splash in the ocean
[00:23.76]until they're three months old,
[00:25.83]when they'll finally set off on their first fishing trip, alone.
[00:34.23]1,500 miles from the nearest continent,
[00:36.32]New Zealand is beyond the reach of most mammals.
[00:42.48]Marine mammals aside,
[00:43.94]the only ones that did succeed,
[00:45.87]before humans arrived, had wings.
[00:51.66]Bats.
[00:53.34]This is the short-tailed bat.
[00:55.68]It roosts in tree cavities and comes out at night to feed.
[00:59.57]So far, so normal.
[01:01.36]But these bats have been living the island life
[01:04.56]far too long not to have become a little ''different''.
[01:07.49]And they're not the only ones.
[01:11.62]Wetas are primitive relatives of the locust,
[01:14.72]but they can't fly.