Animals

This endemic species lives in New Zealand around the South Island and west of the North Island. The largest individual measured so far was 150 cm long and weighed 57 kg.

Mating is preceded by aggressive fights among males who answered a female call.

By parasitizing fish, they cause significant damage to fish farming.

Fish that behave in this way are called anadromous. When they reach their destination, the male begi ...

Most often it is a mixture of brown, reddish-brown, red, yellow, white, and orange. Their body is co ...

Information about their reproductive behavior is scarce, however, since they can be hardly observed in the wild, and are very timid animals.

Each season, their number in the Magdalena River basin grows more and more. Since residents of Medel ...

If not, the dormant embryo clambers into her pouch, and another joey is born a month after. In the case of the first joey’s survival, the embryo disintegrates after five months.