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For the previous quarter century, a distant nook of southwest New Zealand has supplied a predator-free sanctuary for threatened species, together with the world’s solely flightless parrot and a lizard…

Often known as sea cows, their rotund our bodies, vacuum-cleaner snouts, stumpy flippers, leathery gray pores and skin and wrinkles of blubber make them unlikely stand-ins for the sleek mermaid.…