When his semester at the University of Otago ended in November, 22-year-old student Niklas Becker decided to spend most of the next four months tramping before returning to Germany. “I’m quite an outdoors person,” he says, “and I do a lot of tramping and mountaineering.” But he is also curious about the unusual wildlife that […]
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