{"id":71823,"date":"2025-05-15T13:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/15\/endangered-new-zealand-bird-caught-fighting-at-risk-reptile-in-rare-footage"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T04:47:53","slug":"endangered-new-zealand-bird-caught-fighting-at-risk-reptile-in-rare-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71823","title":{"rendered":"Endangered New Zealand bird caught fighting \u2018at risk\u2019 reptile in rare footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video shows the large flightless takah\u0113 bird in hot pursuit of the tuatara \u2013 but the tables soon turn<\/p>\n<p>Two of New Zealand\u2019s most rare and beloved animals \u2013 a large flightless takah\u0113 bird and an ancient tuatara reptile \u2013 have been captured chasing and nipping at one another during a bush-floor melee.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Fisentzidis, a department of conservation ranger on the pest-free Tiritiri Matangi Island near Auckland, saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/aug\/29\/prehistoric-bird-once-thought-extinct-returns-to-new-zealand-wild\">takah\u0113 <\/a>attack the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/26\/henry-new-zealand-tuatara-age-130\">tuatara<\/a> and quickly grabbed his phone to capture the rare footage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/15\/endangered-new-zealand-bird-caught-fighting-at-risk-reptile-in-rare-footage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shows the large flightless takah\u0113 bird in hot pursuit of the tuatara \u2013 but the tables soon turnTwo of New Zealand\u2019s most rare and beloved animals \u2013 a large flightless takah\u0113 bird and an ancient tuatara reptile \u2013 have been captured chasing and n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,65,56,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71823","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71824,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71823\/revisions\/71824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}