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- Title
- Kea and sheep
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- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Their taste for meat has got kea into serious trouble. At night, the birds sometimes ride about on the backs of sheep and tear into the sheeps’ flesh with their powerful bills, causing death. Sometimes the kea panic the sheep, which dash themselves to death over cliffs. Many upland farmers claim that kea kill up to 500 of their sheep in a season.
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- https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/topic/1008
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- Endemic birds / Sheep
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