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		<title>Our Far South</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2012/02/08/our-far-south/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>antonvanhelden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field trips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Whales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antarctica]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Our Far South. This coming Friday I will be standing on the dock at Bluff, looking south, and about to board a boat heading to the sub-Antarctic Islands and the great white continent itself as part of the Our Far South project (www.ourfarsouth.org). What will I see? We all know about Stewart Island [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&#038;blog=3060992&#038;post=12887&#038;subd=tepapa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal and plant collections</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/07/15/animal-and-plant-collections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leon Perrie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bugs, insects and spiders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fossils]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reptiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Te Papa’s Natural Environment team have revamped their webpages. You can access them here. Collection highlights online include: Big fish Medicinal ferns of the second Maori king Unique bird eggs and skeletons Colossal squid Plants collected during Captain Cook’s first expedition GV Hudson insect collection Nests of extinct birds The following links will take you [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&#038;blog=3060992&#038;post=9824&#038;subd=tepapa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colossal squid on display gets check-up</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/02/14/colossal-squid-on-display-gets-check-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/02/14/colossal-squid-on-display-gets-check-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamelalovis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fluid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We can all do with a check-up every so often &#8211; just to ensure things are going ok and we&#8217;re not falling apart. Today our team took the lid off the colossal squid tank and started to drain out the preservation fluid so we can give the colossal squid a check-up. We last had the lid off [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&#038;blog=3060992&#038;post=8157&#038;subd=tepapa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colossal squid &#8211; happy birthday &#8216;two&#8217; you</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2010/12/15/colossal-squid-happy-birthday-two-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2010/12/15/colossal-squid-happy-birthday-two-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamelalovis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[build a squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy Birthday]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe but the colossal squid at Te Papa has turned &#8220;two&#8221;. Time flies when you&#8217;re having fun! Today my squid, &#8220;Pamela&#8221;, is 730 days old &#8211; she is 2 years old.  She now weighs an impressive 306 kilograms (about another 180 kilograms to go before she&#8217;s the same weight as the colossal [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&#038;blog=3060992&#038;post=7490&#038;subd=tepapa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colossal squid at Te Papa turns one year old</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/12/18/colossal-squid-at-te-papa-turns-one-year-old/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/12/18/colossal-squid-at-te-papa-turns-one-year-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamelalovis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[build a squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[one year]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey squid fans Time flies when you&#8217;re having fun! The colossal squid at Te Papa has turned one year old. Now&#8217;s a good time to check out the squid you made on Build a Squid. http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz/build-a-squid See how old you&#8217;ve got, how much you weigh (eek) and what you&#8217;ve been getting up to. My squid is 368 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&#038;blog=3060992&#038;post=4944&#038;subd=tepapa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If I were a squid, how would I mate? Ask Isabella</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/09/17/if-i-were-a-squid-how-would-i-mate-ask-isabella/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/09/17/if-i-were-a-squid-how-would-i-mate-ask-isabella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucyhoffman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cephalopod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[isabella rossellini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mating habits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a passionate 20-armed-embrace Isabella Rosselli would say. Clad in a squid suit, Isabella explains the mating habits of our cephalopod friends in her quirky, family-friendly Green Porno series of short movies on SunDance Channel.  I was amazed at how well she explains squid mating habits &#8211; they are quite strange and not really much [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&#038;blog=3060992&#038;post=4253&#038;subd=tepapa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loch Ness Squid on Google Earth!</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/08/28/loch-ness-squid-on-google-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/08/28/loch-ness-squid-on-google-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucyhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loch Ness Monster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Messie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nessie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weird stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The blog-o-sphere is reeling today with supposed sightings of the Loch Ness Monster on Google Earth! Check it out &#8211; we wonder whether perhaps Nessie and our Colossal squid are related? Weird co-incidence number 2 is that during the squid defrost, some of the scientists nick-named our squid &#8216;Messie&#8217; - after the scientific name Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni. For [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&#038;blog=3060992&#038;post=4039&#038;subd=tepapa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new giant squid specimen!</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/04/03/a-new-giant-squid-specimen/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/04/03/a-new-giant-squid-specimen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrispaulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giant squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Island Bay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A three-metre giant squid specimen washed up on a beach on Wellington&#8217;s South Coast yesterday (2nd April). In comparison with our colossal squid it’s a bit small, but because it’s small it’s interesting! Find out about the difference between Colossal and Giant squid. The squid was found in shallow water by Alana Spragg and her [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&#038;blog=3060992&#038;post=2681&#038;subd=tepapa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Squid &#8211; done and dusted!</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/20/squid-done-and-dusted/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/20/squid-done-and-dusted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamelalovis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news from our squid fix-it team &#8211; the work is complete and we are on track to reopen the colossal squid exhibition to the public from tomorrow 21 March 2009. Yesterday Robert Clendon our Conservator and Hutch Wilco, one of our exhibition preparators finished the last few tweaks to the squid itself. They  managed to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&#038;blog=3060992&#038;post=2502&#038;subd=tepapa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expect the unexpected</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/17/expect-the-unexpected/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/17/expect-the-unexpected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest report on the squid work has come through from Hutch Wilco, one of our exhibition team. Hutch has been working on the squid project since May last year and has become &#8220;intimately&#8221; acquainted with the squid and its tank. He tells me that alterations to the tank have gone very smoothly. All the new [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&#038;blog=3060992&#038;post=2447&#038;subd=tepapa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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