[00:00.58]The spider-silk lure hangs below the kite,
[00:03.16]flitting across the water like an insect.
[00:05.70]Now he must steer the kite to where he thinks the fish are gathered.
[00:09.19]Somewhere, just beneath the surface, shoals of needlefish lie in wait.
[00:14.24]He keeps a close eye on the kite - if it drops, a fish is snared.
[00:19.60]No hook is needed.
[00:21.94]The sharp teeth and rough scales of the needlefish are tangled in the spider silk.
[00:26.00]It's clever, it's effective...
[00:29.45]..and many fish can be caught in this way.
[00:32.22]Their ability to adapt and find food both on land and at sea
[00:35.73]was crucial to the survival of the Pacific's first human colonisers.
[00:40.35]But it wasn't all plain sailing...
[00:42.50]the Pacific's more remote islands
[00:44.60]were some of the last places on Earth to be discovered by humans.
[00:47.92]And the island chain of Hawaii is the remotest of them all.
[00:51.71]These islands are so hard to reach that before humans arrived,
[00:55.34]only one new species of plant or animal turned up here every 35,000 years.
[01:00.83]For those lucky few that made it, this was a land of milk and honey.
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