{"id":30418,"date":"2021-03-31T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/31\/rediscovery-of-rare-cupola-gecko-delights-experts"},"modified":"2021-03-31T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:43:24","slug":"similar-to-having-a-baby-the-euphoria-rediscovery-of-rare-gecko-delights-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30418","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Similar to having a baby, the euphoria\u2019: rediscovery of rare gecko delights experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand lizard expert Ben Barr, who spent years looking under rocks for the elusive Cupola, has finally found what he was looking for<\/p>\n<p>After two years spent turning over thousands of rocks in search of the Cupola gecko, New Zealand lizard expert Ben Barr had been starting to wonder: \u201cAm I ever going to find this thing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But this month, in the Nelson Lakes national park at the top of the South Island, he lifted another rock \u2013 and there it was. \u201cI was totally euphoric. I was over the moon. I couldn\u2019t believe it. I was screaming and yelling, it was incredible. I almost cried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/31\/rediscovery-of-rare-cupola-gecko-delights-experts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand lizard expert Ben Barr, who spent years looking under rocks for the elusive Cupola, has finally found what he was looking forAfter two years spent turning over thousands of rocks in search of the Cupola gecko, New Zealand lizard expert Ben &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,65,56,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30419,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418\/revisions\/30419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}