- Date
- 1988-07-20
- Kind
- Education
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- biologyanimalsconservationeducationcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
During 1988 Museum Week, Central Michigan University biologist Jim Gillingham spoke about New Zealand tuatara social behavior and conservation research. The recap describes territorial fighting, mating behavior, long egg incubation, and the conservation problem of rats eating eggs and young on island habitats.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper account of a public lecture, not the underlying research paper or a current population survey.
Sources
- Reports Gillingham's University of Michigan-linked mating-behavior research, field work in New Zealand, the tuatara's territorial behavior and four-year mating cycle, and sponsorship by National Geographic, the New York Zoological Society, the New Zealand Wildlife Fund, and Central Michigan University. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1988-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-page August issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the lecture recap.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-08_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Jim Gillingham presents tuatara behavior and conservation research, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-tuatara-lecture-1988/, accessed [date], citing Jim Gillingham, “Social Behavior of the New Zealand Tuatara,” Beaver Beacon, August 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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