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[00:02.74]The best-dressed Goldie gets the girl.
[00:13.01]But while his feathers may have secured him a mate,
[00:15.88]they're not strong enough to carry him off the island
[00:18.68]and further east across the South Pacific.
[00:22.31]Birds of paradise have sacrificed flight efficiency for flights of fancy. Goldie
[00:34.46]So who did manage to colonise the South Pacific?
[00:43.91]New Guinea's enormous landscape is carved up into thousands of isolated valleys.
[00:59.39]Each shelters huge numbers of potential colonisers.
[01:09.15]Amazingly, one in 20 of the world's insect species may live here.