PHOTO: SUPPLIEDTe Anau Primary School pupil Zara McClean, 10, is thrilled with her win in the years 5 and 6 category at the Southland Primary Schools speech competition. Zara said she genuinely believed New Zealand’s national animal should be a sheep instead of a kiwi. "I live on a sheep farm and I have pet lambs and sheep and so that’s what got me inspired." Kiwi cost the country millions of dollars to protect whereas sheep brought money into the economy. Not many people had seen a kiwi, but many had seen sheep, Zara said.