Mercury Islands tusked wētā
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mercury-islands-tusked-w-t-170-4805703
title:
Mercury Islands tusked wētā
text:
The Mercury Islands tusked wētā,, also known as the Middle Island tusked wētā, is a large flightless insect in the family Anostostomatidae, discovered in 1970 living on a single small island in New Zealand. Distinguished by the enormous tusks with which males fight, it was saved from extinction by a captive breeding programme and translocation: the entire world population is descended from a male and two females captured and bred in captivity in 1998, just before the species went extinct in the
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encyclopedia
description:
Species of orthopteran insect
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Islands_tusked_w%C4%93t%C4%81
date created:
2016-05-05T02:25:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T00:45:29Z
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