Tuatara produces eggs
PA Invercargill Lucy, the second of Invercargill’s two female tuatara, has produced eggs, but her keeper, Mr Lindsay Hazley, is not too confident they are fertile. Last month Mildred produced 13 eggs, three of which have decomposed. Mr Hazley said he was “relatively hopeful” about the remaining eggs. He was less confident about the 14 eggs Lucy had produced. Mr Hazley said he had been suspicious of Lucy’s plump shape and recognised signs when she started digging holes in
her enclosure. Finally, she chose a spot under the heat lamp — precisely where Mildred had laid her eggs. Mr Hazley said Lucy’s eggs did not have the pigmentation he would have expected to see under a light scan. Meanwhile, old age is not mellowing the temper of Henry, the tuatarium’s senior citizen. A dividing wall was taken down a few weeks ago so he could join Albert, the other male. But Henry’s behaviour was so bad he was put back in solitary confinement.
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Press, 22 October 1986, Page 27
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