Tuatara eggs hatch for Easter at Orokonui Ecosanctuary
Hatchling with eggshell behind (credit: Alison Cree). A rare sighting of five new hatchling tuatara emerging at Orokonui Ecosantuary has been caught on camera by University of Otago researchers who were undertaking a routine inspection of the nest at the time. The first indication that hatching was underway was detected by Zoology research assistant Jade Christiansen, who was carefully excavating the gravel to retrieve a small piece of temperature recording equipment. “I heard a small squeak, and suddenly a tiny hatchling about nine centimetres long scrambled out of the gravel,” Jade says...
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