Orana Wildlife Park
Open-range zoo with lions, gorillas and rhinos, plus a kiwi house and native bird breeding.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Orana Wildlife Park in Christchurch follows a piece of recent conservation science: a counterfeit egg built to be slipped under a nesting male kiwi. It reaches from a curator's workbench at Auckland Zoo to a national hatchery in Rotorua and to the park around you, and asks why kiwi eggs are so hard to hatch by machine. Best heard near the kiwi, where the birds keep night hours.
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