13 Mar 2020

Critter of the Week: the Suter's skink

From Afternoons, 3:31 pm on 13 March 2020

This week’s critter is the Suter's skink. This is an unusual skink for New Zealand - it lays eggs, can swim, hold its breath for more than 20 minutes and is the only skink confined to boulder beaches along the tide-line. Doc's Erica Wilkinson tells us more.

Suter's skink

Suter's skink Photo: Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai (Greene, Terry C.)