The ABC's Catalyst program recently ran a segment on Kiore.

Contributors include Dr Lisa Matisoo-Smith and Hori Parata

"Here, written in the rats DNA, was the untold story of the Maori's last migration.

"It began on a small island in Indonesia. From there, rats were carried by the Polynesians ancestors into the Pacific.

"But then; a huge surprise. There wasn't one launching point to New Zealand, there were two; the Cook Islands and the society islands."

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