Rnz: Afternoons With Jesse Mulligan

Claire Concannon heads to Auckland Zoo to meet their resident tuatara.   Tuatara are pretty special, the only remaining species of reptile from an order that lived alongside the dinosaurs. And they haven’t changed much in millions of years.   University of Auckland PhD candidate Cam Hoffbeck has been investigating the tuatara gut microbiome, to see whether it is also unique.   First though, ectotherm keeper Chye-Mei Huang brings Claire inside the tuatara display enclosure to have a closer look as she feeds them some small locusts.