Not a Lizard!
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- 5. Are tuatara carnivores,yes or no?
- 9. What is the specific term for an animal, like the tuatara, whose diet consists largely of insects?
- 10. Zealand What country are the tuatara endemic to?
- 11. How long can a tuatara live for?
- 13. What causes tuatara to lose their habitat?
- 15. Conservation groups create predator-free ........?
- 16. If the tuatara disappeared, ecosystems would remain perfectly balanced because other animals would take over their role.
- 17. tuatara are apart of New Zealand's........... biodiversity?
- 18. When do tuatara hunt?
- 19. How many eyes do tuatara have?
- 20. Since tuatara's primarily hunt and eat other animals, what role do they play in their ecosystem?
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- 1. Where do scientists breed tuatara to keep them safe?
- 2. What group of reptiles does the tuatara belong to?
- 3. If tuatara disappeared the ecosystem could become..........?
- 4. What is the longest it takes a tuatara to bee an adult?
- 6. What is the tuatara's third eye called?
- 7. Tuatara are a....... species?
- 8. What is fused to the tuatara's jawbone?
- 12. Along with cats, what other invasive mammal is a major threat to tuatara on the mainland?
- 14. Where do tuatara's mostly live?