The elderly woman was rescued off the floor after a young paramedic managed to kick her door down.

The opportunity served a springboard to their success.

All of which means that the nice neat pattern suggested by other Tasmanian endemic birds isn't a template for all its endemics: did the turbo chooks evolve on the mainland (and, if so, why did they lose their flight powers there?) and later run to Tasmania, or did they evolve in Tasmania and cross to the mainland during an earlier glacial period?

I met her on the mountain And there I tuck her life; I met her on the mountain And scobbed her with my knife.