{"id":66952,"date":"2024-09-26T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/26\/henry-new-zealand-tuatara-age-130"},"modified":"2024-09-26T08:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T23:30:17","slug":"hes-130-with-three-eyes-and-two-girlfriends-meet-new-zealands-beloved-tuatara-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66952","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s 130, with three eyes and two girlfriends: meet New Zealand\u2019s beloved tuatara Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unique reptile endemic to New Zealand is the sole survivor of an ancient species that once walked the earth with dinosaurs<\/p>\n<p>About 130 years ago \u2013 as New Zealand women celebrated their world-first right to vote, athletes competed in the first international Olympic Games, and the first motion pictures were flickering into view \u2013 a tiny mottled green reptile with a spiny back was hatching on a small New Zealand island.<\/p>\n<p>The baby tuatara \u2013 a unique and rare reptile endemic to New Zealand \u2013 emerged from his burrow into the forest floor, where he miraculously evaded birds, rats and cannibalistic adult tuatara to reach his full adult size \u2013 nearly one kilo in weight and half a metre in length \u2013 by the time he was 35.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/26\/henry-new-zealand-tuatara-age-130\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unique reptile endemic to New Zealand is the sole survivor of an ancient species that once walked the earth with dinosaursAbout 130 years ago \u2013 as New Zealand women celebrated their world-first right to vote, athletes competed in the first internat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4426,"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":[265,41,56,815],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-reptiles"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66952","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\/4426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66953,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66952\/revisions\/66953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}