Some, like Wellington's Victoria University biologist Wayne Linklater, writing in Wellington's Dominion Post, have questioned the use of money on an animal whose species is not endangered.

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That sprawling dominion can seem threatened by slow Windows 8 uptake, in the context of an accelerating post-PC world.

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