Seeking Nature's Inner Compass

摘要

Michael Walker slips off his shoes and enters an enormous Maori ceremonial room, the University of Auckland's Taenenuiarangi Hall. Padding across long wooden planks, the biologist explains the significance of each of dozens of painted wooden carvings on the walls and pillars. "This is Turi," he says, pointing out a highly stylized humanoid with a green bird on its shoulder. "He was the skipper of a canoe which sailed to New Zealand from the Cook Islands." For that unrivaled feat, Turi gained a place among the gods.