26 Oct 2023

Invercargill's Tuatara pass health checks with flying colours

From Nights, 10:35 pm on 26 October 2023

Invercargill has long been home to a group of tuatara, ranging from juveniles to perhaps Invercargill's most famous resident of all, Henry - aged somewhere between 100 and 150 years old. And this week they've been their six-monthly health checks - known around the council offices as their 'Plunket checks. Mark Leishman talks to Caroline Rain and Kate Gough about what goes into a tuatara health checkup.