New Zealand: The rare animal species

New Zealand is an island nation with many species of rare wild animals, such as reptiles, dinosaurs, Snares penguins or glow worms. According to the Guardian, this is the species with the longest incubation period of the reptiles. 

Shown is the underground nests dug by the mother for about 16 months earlier. This is the only member of a surviving ancient reptiles, once flourished on Earth in the Jurassic.

Snares penguins just dug a maze through the forest to their regional organizations, creating a unique spectacle, like a city of penguins in a forest dwarf. In the breeding season, the penguins have to climb a steep cliffs 130 meters high on the coast of the Snares Islands, a real challenge.

This is the larva of an insect called flies mushroom. They glow to attract flying insects on sticky traps. Kea is the only mountain parrot species in the world can survive in icy conditions of the Southern Alps. They are believed to have developed strategies foraging in the last major ice age, when we have to learn to adapt by using unusual capacity his curiosity.

Kiwi bird eggs accounted for 20% by weight of the mother bird. Human pregnancy, the baby is only 5%. This is the only bird with nostrils at the top of the mine, allowing it to detect the invertebrate prey underground.

Bring the chicken the size of a heavyweight, but actually more kiwi ostrich close. One of the smallest birds of New Zealand and most agile, can survive in the environment toxic and corrosive highest here. This sea lion is one of the rarest sea lion species and most threatened in the world. Most of New Zealand sea lions today are descendants of a single child is brought back here in 1993, after 100 years of absence.

This cricket species can grow up to 3.6 cm in length. Strategy escape its predators are very effective. It can jump into the water and hold your breath for 5 minutes, enough time for predators away. Giant giant weta is the heaviest insect in the world, a unique history in New Zealand, it can reach a weight of a little bird.