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Hunting henriettas on Ruapuke Island – on the tail of New Zealand’s first mice

Few people are aware of Ruapuke Island. Guarding the eastern approaches to Foveaux Strait, the 1600 ha island is large enough to appear as a smudge of colour at the very bottom of TV3’s weather map. Yet the island’s low relief means that passengers on the Stewart Island ferry 20Read more

2013-01-08
By: Colin Miskelly
On: 8 Jan 2013
In: History

Take that you dirty rat! – the unglamorous side of museum work

The position of Curator Terrestrial Vertebrates was a new one for Te Papa in mid 2010. My predecessor had been the Curator of Birds, and the expanded role meant that for the first time a curator would be responsible for land mammals, as well as for birds, reptiles and frogs.Read more

2011-10-20
By: Colin Miskelly
On: 20 Oct 2011
In: Science

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