Food Habits
Diet consist of arthropods, earthworms, snails, bird eggs, small birds, frogs, and lizards, and a native cricket-like insect the size of a mouse called a weta. Young tuataras are also occasionally cannibalized. Due to its low metabolic rate, the tuatara eats much less frequently than other reptiles.
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Author: Bruce Musico
Musico, B. 1999. "Sphenodon punctatus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed July 12, 2009 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sphenodon_punctatus.html.
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