Primeval Survivors

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Title

Primeval Survivors

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NZ On Screen

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Description

This award-winning NFU short focuses on the tuatara, sole survivor of a reptile species extinct for 135 million years. An NZ Wildlife Service (now Department of Conservation) team search for the reptiles on Stephens Island sanctuary (aka Takapourewa) as they hunt for insects. Voiceover is eschewed in favour of natural sound, and composer Jack Body’s evocative soundtrack. The tuatara are weighed and measured; they can grow up to 80 centimetres, weigh over a kilogram and live 150 years. There w...

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Format

Video

Date created

1981

URL

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/primeval-survivors-1981

Related subjects

tuatara / turataras / reptile / new zealand wildllfe service / wildlife sanctuary / conservation / lighthouse / fishing boat / forest / stephens island / takapourewa / wētā

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