Solomon Njoroge
Kiore said he had delivered the chairs to the Agricultural Society of Kenya (ASK) offices in Nairobi for a three-day presidential function.
Some species of weta undoubtedly disappeared during the widespread local extinctions that occurred after the arrival of
kiore (Rattus exulans) with Polynesians ca.
Home ranges and interactions of
kiore (Rattus exulans) and Norway rats (R.
No Hea Te
Kiore: mtDNA Variation in Rattus exulans--A Model for Human Colonisation and Contact in Prehistoric Polynesia.
The very rat they have brought over seas drives away our
kiore [the native rat] and we see him no more."' (23) In these books, as in other Victorian juvenile fiction, the land is symbolically vacated by the indigenous inhabitants to make room for the racially 'superior' newcomers.
Radiocarbon dating of Pacific rat (
kiore) bones and native seeds (Landcare Research 2008) has suggested that the earliest time for human colonisation of New Zealand is about 1280-1300.
Response of lizard assemblages in the Mercury Islands, New Zealand, to removal of an introduced rodent: the
kiore (Rattus exulans).
Holdaway and Worthy say that humans and the introduced
kiore, or Pacific rat, caused the rapid extinction of most of the large and small bird species on the island nation, making up three separate waves of extinction.
The Polynesian rat, or
Kiore, were bought to New Zealand from Polynesia by early Maori settlers more than 1,000 years ago as a food source.
Smaller species such as the storm petrels and diving petrel(s) would undoubtedly have disappeared sooner but after the introduction of
kiore about 2000 years BP (Holdaway 1996).
Embarking on a journey that transcends spatial, temporal or cultural boundaries Eliza's tale perkily asserts: "You can be Maori anywhere in the world." In her evocation of both mystical and practical elements which bridge past and present, a bright flow of dialogue mimetically reproduced the excursionary exploits of a little Taniwha and a Mexican
kiore - swept along together on El Nino, the tempestuous current with its multicultural associations.