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Otago

/ ɒˈtɑːɡəʊ /

noun

  1. a council region of New Zealand, formerly a province, founded by Scottish settlers in the south of South Island. The University of Otago (1869) in Dunedin is the oldest university in New Zealand. Chief town: Dunedin. Pop: 195 000 (2004 est)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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They work: The long finger of the Otago Peninsula, once overrun with possums, is now almost free of them.

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Zoologist Philip Seddon from the University of Otago in New Zealand explained: "They are genetically modified grey wolves".

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The company has not cloned a dire wolf, explained paleogeneticist Dr Nic Rawlence, also from Otago University.

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Prof Sir Jim Mann, co-director of the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre, in Otago, New Zealand, said the emphasis was likely to be "on the needs of those who are defined as clinically obese" and the limited funding was "very likely" to be directed towards them.

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Co-author Dr Uwe Kaulfuss, of the University of Göttingen in Germany and former postdoctoral fellow in the University of Otago's Department of Geology, discovered the tiny fossils during an excavation at Hindon earlier this year.

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