Love in Cold Blood
Short Film (Full Length) – 2009
To Māori, these long-living taonga are kaitiaki, guardians of knowledge... They are the last survivors of an ancient lineage of reptiles that died out everywhere else 65 million years ago. And now, tuatara are only found in New Zealand.– Narrator Cilla McQueen on the history of tuatara
Henry didn't actually mate with Mildred: he attacked her and bit her bloody tail off!– Southland Museum curator Lindsay Hazley on the first attempt to breed Henry
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