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