| [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. |
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