Electronic tagging of marine animals is common, but tagging marine invertebrates is very unusual! For example, in 1998, an estimated 11,800 marine animals were tagged electronically, and only 35 ...
Cockles are classified as bivalves within the phylum Mollusca. (Almost all shelled marine animals, as well as octopus and squid, are molluscs.) The New Zealand cockle, also known as tuaki or ...
In this activity, students work in small groups and come up with their own classification system for a number of marine organisms. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: explain ...
Aotearoa New Zealand is rich in animal life – from tiny pepeketua and giant wētāpunga to ngā manu a Tānemahuta and ngā ika a Tangaroa. Some of these animals are unique to particular locations ...
Tagging marine invertebrates is very unusual! Dr Miles Lamare, from the University of Otago, talks about why they decided to tag the New Zealand starfish and what they hoped to discover. Point of ...
Dr Miles Lamare, from the University of Otago, talks about the challenges of attaching electronic tags to starfish. Point of interest Starfish is the common name for a group of animals called sea ...
Ecologists often look for places where the environment has been changed in order to test out ideas about how the environment influences food webs. In this video, Associate Professor Stephen Wing ...
Use this interactive to label parts of a cockle/tuangi. Drag and drop the text labels onto the boxes next to the diagram. Selecting or hovering over a box will highlight each area in the diagram ...
Green-lipped mussels are New Zealand’s major aquaculture species. In this interactive, Professor Andrew Jeffs (Leigh Marine Laboratory) describes the key stages in farming green-lipped mussels.
Green-lipped mussels are New Zealand’s major aquaculture species. In this interactive, Professor Andrew Jeffs (Leigh Marine Laboratory) discusses some of the challenges faced by New Zealand’s ...
