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Flightless parrots, burrowing bats helped parasitic Hades flower
Ancient dung from a cave in the South Island of New Zealand has revealed a previously unsuspected relationship between two of the country’s most unusual threatened species. Fossilised dung (coprolites) of a now rare parrot, the nocturnal flightless kakapo, contained large amounts of pollen of a rare parasitic plant, dactylanthus (commonly known as “wood rose” […]
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Tagged ACAD, Alan Cooper, conservation biology, DNA, Kakapo, Landcare Research, New Zealand, pollen
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