Tuesday 11 July 2017
Winter Learning Journey Day 3
Otorohanga Kiwi House and Native Bird Park
Adopt an animal critter: I will adopt a tuatara.
It looks like a lizard but it is a reptile. Its closest relative is an extinct dinosaur. Tuatara is a Maori word meaning 'spiny back' or 'peaks on its back'. A tuatara eats other animals like wetas, beetles, moths and small lizards. Tuataras used to live all over New Zealand, but now live only on islands off the coast that have no predators. They can swim and are noctural - this means they come out at night.
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Kia Ora Toby,
I didn't know that Tuatara was the Maori name for 'spiny back' or 'peaks on its back' - how interesting! Thanks for sharing. I always love finding out what Maori words mean.
Nicky :)
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