qi miao dao yu 16

[00:00.00]	It's home to a living fossil,
[00:02.09]	a relict,
[00:03.42]	barely changed for over 100 million years. The tuatara.
[00:07.91]	And half the world's population survive on this one island refuge.
[00:12.89]	During the reign of the dinosaurs,
[00:14.42]	the ancestors of the tuatara were everywhere.
[00:17.62]	They survived the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs,
[00:21.07]	but then couldn't compete with the mammals and died out.
[00:24.95]	Everywhere, except on what was then a mammal-free New Zealand.
[00:29.28]	Unlike mammals,
[00:30.63]	tuatara live life in the slow lane.
[00:34.68]	Days can pass when they barely move a muscle.
[00:37.99]	Sometimes taking just one breath an hour.
[00:41.49]	They feed on wetas,
[00:43.25]	beetles and other invertebrates
[00:45.60]	but don't appear very good at catching them.
[00:48.30]	Even after millions of years of practice,
[00:50.65]	eye-mouth co-ordination is not what it could be.
[00:53.86]	"Survival of the fittest" just doesn't seem to apply here. “
[00:58.49]	The tuatara's survival,
[01:00.15]	first on New Zealand,
[01:01.33]	now on Stephens Island,
[01:02.75]	proves a point - islands are pretty safe places to be,
[01:06.81]	at least until invaded.

[00:00.00]	It' s home to a living fossil,
[00:02.09]	a relict,
[00:03.42]	barely changed for over 100 million years. The tuatara.
[00:07.91]	And half the world' s population survive on this one island refuge.
[00:12.89]	During the reign of the dinosaurs,
[00:14.42]	the ancestors of the tuatara were everywhere.
[00:17.62]	They survived the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs,
[00:21.07]	but then couldn' t compete with the mammals and died out.
[00:24.95]	Everywhere, except on what was then a mammalfree New Zealand.
[00:29.28]	Unlike mammals,
[00:30.63]	tuatara live life in the slow lane.
[00:34.68]	Days can pass when they barely move a muscle.
[00:37.99]	Sometimes taking just one breath an hour.
[00:41.49]	They feed on wetas,
[00:43.25]	beetles and other invertebrates
[00:45.60]	but don' t appear very good at catching them.
[00:48.30]	Even after millions of years of practice,
[00:50.65]	eyemouth coordination is not what it could be.
[00:53.86]	" Survival of the fittest" just doesn' t seem to apply here. "
[00:58.49]	The tuatara' s survival,
[01:00.15]	first on New Zealand,
[01:01.33]	now on Stephens Island,
[01:02.75]	proves a point islands are pretty safe places to be,
[01:06.81]	at least until invaded.