When visiting the North Brother Island in Cook Strait during 1959, the author saw very few tuatara, while the Cook Strait click beetle was relatively common. Returning in 1993 he could catch 50 tuatara in a night and the click beetle had vanished — a presumed 'local extinction' due to the increase in predatory tuatara.
GEORGE GIBBS
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Forest and Bird, Issue 294, 1 November 1999, Page 33
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56When visiting the North Brother Island in Cook Strait during 1959, the author saw very few tuatara, while the Cook Strait click beetle was relatively common. Returning in 1993 he could catch 50 tuatara in a night and the click beetle had vanished — a presumed 'local extinction' due to the increase in predatory tuatara. GEORGE GIBBS Forest and Bird, Issue 294, 1 November 1999, Page 33
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