More Little Known Facts About New Zealand

As promised here is more information about the Tuatara and some interesting facts about the rare birds only found in New Zealand.

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The Tuatara has eyes that can focus independently and they have two types of cells so that they can see both by day and by night. It also has a third eye on the top of its head but is only visible when it is born. They grow to be about 20 inches long and can weigh up to 2 lbs. Unlike the Kiwi bird where the female is the larger the Tuatara male is almost twice as big as the female.

The Tuatara eat beetles, crickets and spiders also frogs and the eggs of birds and lizards. They reproduce very slowly taking up to five years. Before they can even reproduce it takes ten years for them to reach sexual maturity. It also takes between 12 and 15 months from copulation to hatching depending on the temperature. The temperature also has an influence on whether the eggs will produce males or females. It is the warmer temperature that contributes most usually in the producing of males.

More Little Known Facts About New Zealand

The Tuatara average life span is 60 years although they can often live to be over 100 years old. They continue to grow for the first 35 years of their life. The courtship and mating ritual is quite unique, but that is for another article at another time.

New Zealand is the home to over 170 types of birds so we will only deal with some of the more interesting ones only found in New Zealand. The most well known is the Tiki Bird although because of its nocturnal nature it is rarely seen. You can see a photo of this rare bird on my site. The other one is the Pukeko again you can see a photo on my website. Other unusual looking birds are the Yellow Eyed Penguin also called Hoiho. Like the Kiwi they are also flightless. They have short stubby flippers and waterproof feathers. They are one of the three species that breed on the mainland of New Zealand.

Another rare bird is the Kakapo with only slightly more than one hundred of these unique birds in existence. It is now considered one of the rarest of birds. The story of their being is special and like the Tuatara is worthy of an article all of its own. Their breeding habit is so unusual it is totally dependent on the Kahikatea or Rimu Tree. These trees only bear fruit every two or three years.

The Kotare or more commonly known as the Kingfisher is a distant relative of the Kookaburra bird of Australia. It is believed that the first Kotare cane to New Zealand over ten thousand years ago. It eats skinks, spiders, earthworms and mice. It eats fish and have been known to also eat crab which it dashes against tree trunks to break them up. It then eats the peaces shell and all. It vomits the shell up at a later time.

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More Little Known Facts About New Zealand

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Various Types of Short Stories

As there are varieties of subjects, themes and art, there are various types of a short story. Some of the types are ancient tales, humor, satire, fantasy, biography, education, local color, and history. Lets us have a glimpse on each one of them in this article.

1. Ancient Tales

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It is the power of the utilization of the ancient form of the tale in the modern short story. Italian writer Giovanni Verga's The She-Wolf (1880), and Chinese writer Yeh Shao-Chun's Mrs. Li's Hair are remarkable examples.

Various Types of Short Stories

2. Fantasy

Fantasy stories are nothing but the fair combination of the old tales tradition and the supernatural details. The fine examples of such stories are British writer John Collier's horror fantasy Bottle Party (1939), Irish author Elizabeth Bowen's The Demon Lover (1941), and British author Saki's Tobermory (1911).

3. Humor

These types of stories are meant for producing surprise and delight. You will see that the most famous humorous tales and fables were written by the Americans. Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865), and Joel Chandler Harris's The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story (1894) are remarkable. There is serious humor in the works of Americans like Eudora Welty's Petrified Man (1939) and Dorothy Parker's The Custard Heart (1939).

4. Satire

The main purpose of satire is to attack the evils of society. There are writers who wrote stories of sober satire. Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler's Fate of the Baron (1923), and American Mary McCarthy's The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt (1941) are known for their somber satire.

5. Education Story

Such stories revolve around the education of the main character. The good example is American educator Lionel Trilling's Of This Time, of That Place (1944).

6. History

History types deal with a life story or historical event. Welty's A Still Moment (a 1943 story about naturalist John James Audubon) is fine example of story dealing with history event.

7. Local Color

These types of stories deal with the customs and traditions of rural and small-town life. You can enjoy the local color in the stories of George Washington Cable, Maria Edgeworth, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Wilkins Freeman.

These are some of the types you may find in sort story genre. In recent times, stories have more local color, diversities in the representations, making use of dialects, and vernacular impressions. The story writes have been taking somewhat flexibility in writing stories as they wish.

Various Types of Short Stories

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Short Skirts, Stockings and High Heels

Short skirts were all the rage in the late 60's even if you didn't have 'the legs' to wear one. Jean Shrimpton was the yardstick we all measured ourselves against and back then, she was considered a very skinny example. But, oh boy, did she ever cause a stir here in Australia!

Stockings had only just changed over to the wearing of pantyhose and high heels were what women wore to show off their legs more advantageously. Now getting the right size stocking pantyhose back then was not an exact science like it is today because the manufacturers were still coming to grips with how many sizes were actually needed to cover the majority of the women in the world.

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They learnt very quickly that three sizes, that is small, medium and large, among women simply didn't exist. I think they solved a few of these problems when they came up with spandex instead of nylon because spandex like its name implies, expands.

Short Skirts, Stockings and High Heels

So with wearing a short skirt and a pair of not-well-fitting stockings balanced precariously on a pair of overly high heels was a recipe for a disaster looking for a place to happen for many of us.

I found my 'place to happen' on a Sydney Harbour Ferry between Neutral Bay and Circular Quay. It was morning rush hour and everyone wanted to get off the ferry and up to the train station quickly.

It was also a wet morning and the deck stairs were slippery. Down I went and landed on my knees amid a shoving crowd. It hurt but I wouldn't show the handsome young Policeman just how much because I was so embarrassed. Besides, I may have lost one of my false eyelashes if I had cried.

I had split my stockings right across both knees and the nylon hung like dead skin down my legs. I had lost the heel off one of those stupidly high heels, split the crutch of my stockings and tried desperately to get away from that pushing Ferry crowd with some dignity intact.

One shoe was 5 inches higher than the other and I was hobbled by stockings that were trying to escape my legs and a short skirt rucked up around my backside trying to help them off.

Needless to say, I simply moved onto the closest Ferry seat and returned home to Neutral Bay to ring the office and tell them I wasn't coming to work that day because I had had an accident. Thank goodness for an understanding boss but I think he actually liked us girls to wear our short skirts, stockings and ridiculously high heels around his office anyway.

Short Skirts, Stockings and High Heels

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Benefits of Short Stories

A short story is a literary work that tells a series of event in a specific setting. These series of events are the product of the writer's powerful mind and imagination. They are the result of contemplations, and realizations done by the writer either during his gloomy or happy days. Short stories are the outlet of the writer's emotions. It is through short stories that a writer directly or indirectly expresses his ideals, beliefs and opinions regarding issues that continually confronting the society. Thus stories are written due to several purposes such as to inspire, to educate, to entertain and to provoke one's emotions.

Whichever the purpose of a particular story, one thing that is very much sure is that stories have lots of benefits to everyone.

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For children stories teach them moral lessons which will be planted in their young minds and that they can ponder upon as they grow older. Other than that, they help in the enhancement of children's imaginative thinking which leads to creativity. According to some experts, children are being trained to think imaginatively while listening or reading stories in accordance to how the writer describes the setting, characters, and events that took place in the story. More than that, children are taught to focus their attention to a specific topic so that if they will be engaged to more complicated brainstorming or emersions they won't have any difficulty. One thing more, their vocabularies will be developed. As a result,, this will help them develop their communication skills both in oral and written communication.

Benefits of Short Stories

For older person, stories especially with those that contain humor entertain people. Short stories would also provoke questions in the minds of people regarding life and society. Short stories enables them see realities even though the events in the stories did not happen in actual scenes; but there are several situations in life that can be related to those events. The readers are made to see and think of the realities in life. Another thing is that stories teach people to appreciate the beauty of life. This is because through short stories that the adventures of people are told. These characters are used to symbolize things in the real society. It is through them that writers relate the message they wanted their readers to grasp. Despite the fact that these characters shown in these stories don't exist in real life, their struggles can be compared to someone in real life.

Those benefits mentioned above are only among the many benefits of reading short stories. Seeing those benefits that stories can give, it is just correct to conclude that reading short stories is helpful to all.

Benefits of Short Stories

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