Willowbank Wildlife Reserve
Native wildlife park with a nocturnal kiwi house, kea, takahe and hand-fed longfin eels.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Willowbank Wildlife Reserve in Christchurch stays at the edge of one stream and the New Zealand longfin eels living in it. It follows their strange once-in-a-lifetime journey toward the tropical Pacific, and a November night in twenty twelve when two men climbed into this enclosure. Best heard crouched by the water, where the eels come up to be fed.
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