WILD SOUTH - AS IT WASNT IN THE BEGINNING - ENDERBY ISLAND

When cattle and rabbits were marooned on Enderby Island in the subantarctic to provide food for shipwrecked mariners, they little realised that the ecological balance would be completely overturned. Within one hundred years these two animals not only revolutionised the existing order governing plants and animals native to the island, but they had to change their own habits quite substantially just to survive. Auckland Island teal ducks, albatrosses, penguins, skua gulls and sea-lions manage to survive in spite of the ecological change.