Sunday, May 18, 2008

Invercargills oldest resident

I'd like to introduce you to Henry! He's a very popular fellow, gets hundreds of visitors, has several girlfriends and now much to everyones delight He's producing lots of babies.
At present in the small display case there are 11 little fellows, very active dont know how old they are before they take life seriously and slow down. I have stood and watched Henry or one of the other older ones for 10 minutes and not seen even an eyelid move!
The Tuatara's natural habitat is Stephens Island in the Marlborough Sounds we are very lucky to have so many here at our local museum carefully looked after by an expert.

2 comments:

Wishful Thinking said...

Cool ... I'll have to show Aaron in the morning :-)

Penny said...

I am pleased to see that despite his age, Henry is a 21st century parent.

He's very handsome :)