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Love in Cold Blood

Love in Cold Blood
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Love in Cold Blood
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NZ On Screen
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This multi-award-winning documentary chronicles the turbulent, 'will-they-won't-they' relationship of Mildred and Henry — two tuatara at Invercargill's Southland Museum. When Henry was first selected for the captive breeding program, his supervisors named him after King Henry Vlll, hoping he'd have several wives. But Henry's dramatic journey to becoming a father ended up spanning decades. The "epic saga" is packed with info on tuatara history in Aotearoa, alongside plenty of tongue-in-cheek h...

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Video
Date created
2009
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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/love-in-cold-blood-2009
Related subjects
rats / predators / endangered species / endangered animals / captivity / islands / captive breeding programme / captive tuatara breeding programme / breeding season / vet / tumour / gene pool / hatching / island habitats / predator free / ngāti koata / stephens island / takapourewa / souhland museum / sandy cooper / southland museum and art gallery / wētā / cancer / cue tv / tuatara / breeding / mating / native animals / reptile / invercargill / museum / invercargill museum / lindsay hazley / museum curator / tim shadbolt / southland / southland museum / mayor of invercargill / kaitiaki / guardians of knowledge / dinosaur / eggs / colonisation

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