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Kurī specimen, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 1924 The Kurī is an extinct breed of Polynesian Dog kept by Māori people.It was introduced to New Zealand by the Polynesian ancestors of the Māori during their migration from East Polynesia in the 13th century AD.
Proposed route for the migration of dogs based on mDNA. Haplotype A29 relates most to the Australian Dingo and the New Guinea Singing Dog, the ancient Polynesian Arc2 to modern Polynesian, Indonesian and ancient New Zealand dogs, and the ancient Polynesian Arc1 is indistinguishable from a number of widespread modern haplotypes. [19] [20]
The Māori brought the kurī (Polynesian Dog) and kiore (Polynesian rat) in about 1250 CE, [1] and Europeans from 1769 onwards brought the pig, mice, two additional species of rats, weasels, stoats, ferrets and possums and many other species, some of which cause conservation problems for indigenous species.
Dog breeds originating in New Zealand (3 P) P. Dog breeds originating in Papua New Guinea (1 P) Polynesian Dog (5 P)
Map of the Marquesas Islands. There are two words in the Marquesan language for dog: peto, used in the Northern Marquesas, and nuhe, used in the Southern Marquesas.The former might have been an English loanword from pet or a Spanish loanword from perro (dog), although pero was an alternative for dog (kurī) in the related Māori language.
The original Hawaiian poi dogs were descended from the Polynesian dogs brought to the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesian people. Genetic studies on the New Zealand Kurī dog indicate that the origin of this dog (and therefore probably the Hawaiian poi dog) to be Indonesia .
Polynesian Dog (5 P) A. Fauna of American Samoa (3 C, 6 P) C. Fauna of the Cook Islands (1 C, 21 P) E. Fauna of Easter Island (18 P) F. ... Fauna of New Zealand (20 C ...
Extinct animals of New Zealand (2 C, 45 P) P. Polynesian Dog (5 P) Pages in category "Extinct animals of Oceania" The following 30 pages are in this category ...