NINE EGGS LAID
TUATARA’S ACHIEVEMENT SECOND TIME ON RECORD (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday An interesting event at the Dominion Museum in the past few days has been the nesting, if it can be so called, of the tuatara lizard kept there for purposes of study. The laying of eggs by a tuatara in captivity is an achievement now recorded for only the second time. The previous occasion was when a tuatara laid five eggs at the Auckland Museum. The Dominion Museum tuatara has now captured the record for Wellington with a clutch of nine. The eggs are not fertile.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21040, 16 February 1940, Page 7
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