Above: A ripe karaka berry is more than a mouthful for a giant gecko. Maori history tells of feeding large pet lizards on the fruit of tawa. Perhaps in the recent past the extinct Hoplodactylus delcourti, at over 60cm long the largest gecko ever, may have eaten and distributed a variety of the larger fleshy fruits of forest trees such as karaka, tawa, taraire and miro. Photo: Roy Slack
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Forest and Bird, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 August 1987, Page 22
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69Above: A ripe karaka berry is more than a mouthful for a giant gecko. Maori history tells of feeding large pet lizards on the fruit of tawa. Perhaps in the recent past the extinct Hoplodactylus delcourti, at over 60cm long the largest gecko ever, may have eaten and distributed a variety of the larger fleshy fruits of forest trees such as karaka, tawa, taraire and miro. Photo: Roy Slack Forest and Bird, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 August 1987, Page 22
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