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What would be a probable explanation for why there are many endemic plants and birds in New Zealand, but no native mammals? (1 point) They were driven away by non–native mammals. Plants and birds would make ocean crossings to the isolated New Zealand islands, mammals could not. They were hunted to extinction by the Maori. The island habitats were not conducive to mammalian life.

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They (mostly) could disperse across the ocean to the isolated New Zealand islands while terrestrial mammals could not. Birds (and many plants via seeds) can cross oceans; true land mammals generally could not (the only native land mammals are bats; marine mammals occur in the surrounding seas).