piao liu zhe 28

[00:00.94]	As pioneers,
[00:02.57]	they took everything they would need to start their lives afresh
[00:05.72]	Livestock,plants for cultivation,even the coconut
[00:09.61]	But they would also have taken a long list of stowaways,
[00:13.19]	like the mourning gecko
[00:15.22]	This lizard was just one castaway
[00:17.13]	which no longer had to rely on its stamina and luck to reach new lands
[00:22.75]	It could now hitch a free ride
[00:24.7]	In a series of epic voyages,
[00:27.0]	the descendants of the Lapita,
[00:28.38]	the people we now call the Polynesians,
[00:30.52]	succeeded in colonising the far corners of the South Pacific -
[00:34.94]	from Hawaii to New Zealand,——
[00:37.44]	even to Easter Island,nearly 7,000 miles east of New Guinea
[00:42.64]	In doing so, animal castaways now reached new islands at a rate never seen before,
[00:48.73]	changing the nature of the South Pacific forever

[00:00.94]	As pioneers,
[00:02.57]	they took everything they would need to start their lives afresh
[00:05.72]	Livestock, plants for cultivation, even the coconut
[00:09.61]	But they would also have taken a long list of stowaways,
[00:13.19]	like the mourning gecko
[00:15.22]	This lizard was just one castaway
[00:17.13]	which no longer had to rely on its stamina and luck to reach new lands
[00:22.75]	It could now hitch a free ride
[00:24.7]	In a series of epic voyages,
[00:27.0]	the descendants of the Lapita,
[00:28.38]	the people we now call the Polynesians,
[00:30.52]	succeeded in colonising the far corners of the South Pacific
[00:34.94]	from Hawaii to New Zealand,
[00:37.44]	even to Easter Island, nearly 7, 000 miles east of New Guinea
[00:42.64]	In doing so, animal castaways now reached new islands at a rate never seen before,
[00:48.73]	changing the nature of the South Pacific forever