livingart Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 the big cricket thing on davidb's hand is a growth he had removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterfaller1 Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 Top one is a Weta, bottom one is a Tuatara. Wow..so fascinating http://weta.boarsnest.net/ and I thought we had big bugs here! http://www.kcc.org.nz/animals/tuatara.asp "it hasn't changed it's form in over 225 million years" now that is cool.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidb Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 sorry- I was typing fast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterfaller1 Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 They look great. What other animals are native to New Zealand? Like what about the surrounding water? Great whites are there or no? We have alligators.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 Wow..so fascinating http://weta.boarsnest.net/ and I thought we had big bugs here! http://www.kcc.org.nz/animals/tuatara.asp "it hasn't changed it's form in over 225 million years" now that is cool.. we have an alpine weta with anti freeze in their veins, freeze in winter then thaw out and walk away in spring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaNs Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 I want a set of Forest geckos (Hoplodactylus granulatus) Heres our native animals http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/defaul ... x?id=32842 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidb Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 I want a set of Forest geckos (Hoplodactylus granulatus) Heres our native animals http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/defaul ... x?id=32842 Do you only have elegans at the moment? At present we have 5 Hoplodactylus granulatus... Need some jewelled geckos now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianab Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 They look great. What other animals are native to New Zealand? Like what about the surrounding water? Great whites are there or no? We have alligators.. NZ has a very unusual native ecology, no native land mammals apart from seals and bats. Thats why you see a lot of birds and insects taking over niches that would normally be taken by mammals. So you have flightless birds, huge 'crickets' (Weta), Tuatara that look like a lizard, but aren't actually related, Alpine and flightless parrots, carnivorous snails that eat earth worms. Because no humans arrived in NZ untill about 800 years ago there is still a record of the original animals. Many were wiped out after the original polynesian migration, and then more when the Europeans arrived. Because the native wildlife evolved with few predators they took a huge hit from rats, stoats etc that people introduced. As for the sea.. yeah, there are sharks, whales , Orca etc. But thats just normal open ocean stuff Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 humans arrived about 1300 years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidb Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 no recent evidence proves only 800 years ago Olly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted June 14, 2008 Report Share Posted June 14, 2008 We have a lot of unique birds and critters. Native pigeon, koreru The fantail has about 20 different maori names weka pukeko baby kea Fairy prion Tuatara pukeko adult black robin cave weta bellbird, kopara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidb Posted June 14, 2008 Report Share Posted June 14, 2008 Thats not a black robin Caryl- black Robins look like this- The one in your photo is probably a south Island Robin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinytawnykitten Posted June 14, 2008 Report Share Posted June 14, 2008 A few of my fav places... Mt Ruapehu Somewhere north of Gisborne Rawene Rawene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 14, 2008 Report Share Posted June 14, 2008 Thats not a black robin Caryl- black Robins look like this- The one in your photo is probably a south Island Robin or a chatham island tomtit they used them to foster black robin eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaNs Posted June 14, 2008 Report Share Posted June 14, 2008 Do you only have elegans at the moment? At present we have 5 Hoplodactylus granulatus... Need some jewelled geckos now! Yeh, got a few. Hoplodactylus granulatus would be neat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidb Posted June 14, 2008 Report Share Posted June 14, 2008 Oh boy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldogod Posted June 14, 2008 Report Share Posted June 14, 2008 Look at that beautiful mountain, Ill be boarding down that soon :bounce: :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokako Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 some more pics of our birdies to share North Island Kaka Paradise Ducks and my personal favorite, North Island Kokako Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokako Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 some more pics of our birdies to share North Island Kaka Paradise Ducks and my personal favorite, North Island Kokako Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 sunset at Waitete Bay Coromandel Good morning from Waitete Bay Amodeo Bay Coromandel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinytawnykitten Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 my personal favorite, North Island Kokako I would give anything to hear a Kokako sing. Where is the best place in and time to be able to hear it (apart from at 9am, Morning Report, Radio NZ National)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinsonMassif Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 They have a bunch in the wildlife reserve over past Masterton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinytawnykitten Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 They have a bunch in the wildlife reserve over past Masterton. I wanna hear one in the wild. Maybe that's not possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokako Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 kaptiti island is the closest place to you (you need a permit from DoC) dont know what its like. tiri tiri matangi Island is a good place to see them, i think they have released them around the wildlife park at mt bruce too. best time to hear them is early in the morning just at day break Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinsonMassif Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 I went to Punakaike pancake rocks today. So beautiful. And down the beach. The Strongman mine memorial site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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