In New Zealand there are alot of different animals. There are no snakes but instead ther's alot of geckos and skinks, and I promise you that they are just as disgusting as the snakes... The skinks looks like a gecko but has a "longer" body so it's a mix of snake and gecko I think. There's also a "living fossil", the Tuataras. They lived when the dinosaurs lived and looks like dragons but is much smaller then they were, only 30-75cm long are the Tuataras. The Tuataras are meat eaters so you better watch out!

 

The Bat is NZ only native land mammals but the country has 252 native birds instead, so it evens out. The national symbol of the country is the Kiwi bird, read about it here.

 

NZ has a beautiful sea life and it starts already at the shore. At the shore there are many different kind of seals, both sea lions, fur seals, leopard seals and elephant seals. In the water, half of the world's whales, porpoises, orcas and dolphins lives there. So, many marine mammals lives there and that is something spectacular! I don't think that it's the first thing you think of when you say New Zealand, but now you know.

 

Of course NZ has alot of sheep also. They correspond 40% of all the sheep and lamb meat in the world. So if you drive on a road and sees a sheep there and another sheep there, you'll know why.