tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post9183576300861411204..comments2024-03-27T13:28:50.405-07:00Comments on Alienated in Vancouver: Henry the Cranky Tuatara fathers children at 111Allan MacInnishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-64516428716119421312009-01-28T10:32:00.000-08:002009-01-28T10:32:00.000-08:00No worries - they look a lot like a lizard! (By th...No worries - they look a lot like a lizard!<BR/> <BR/>(By the way, if people are curious, "Junjun" was my best student in the Japanese high school where I taught from 1999 to 2002. He was very ambitious about learning English, and we hung out a bunch. He's my only student from that time that I remain in touch with!).Allan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-3774731881306750932009-01-28T06:33:00.000-08:002009-01-28T06:33:00.000-08:00Oh really ?Sounds interesting.Because Here in Japa...Oh really ?<BR/>Sounds interesting.<BR/>Because Here in Japan all new medias call them Mukashi-Tokage.<BR/>Mukashi means old time and Tokage is a lizard.<BR/>This can be old time's lizard.<BR/>Maybe we know that they aren't biologically a lizard.<BR/>But they really similar to a lizard.<BR/>That why we call them Mukashi-Tokage in Japanese.<BR/>Thank you for telling me that there is no words to indicate "a lizard" in thier name of English.junjunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14316179310881967705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-22424516086132204142009-01-27T19:19:00.000-08:002009-01-27T19:19:00.000-08:00Tuatara aren't really lizards - they're a distinct...Tuatara aren't really lizards - they're a distinct species that looks lizard-like, but has existed more or less unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs; they have no close genetic kin, are their own thing. "Tuatara," I imagine, is a Maori name - the New Zealand aboriginal people... I was really excited to see a tuatara during my trip to New Zealand, actually, but found the whole experience rather anti-climactic. The tuatara I saw - several young ones and a couple of adults - barely moved, just sat there in their enclosures looking like they might have been plastic toys...Allan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-71879194636207646332009-01-27T19:11:00.000-08:002009-01-27T19:11:00.000-08:00Oh I watched this information on news here in Japa...Oh I watched this information on news here in Japan.<BR/>Tuatara means this kind of lizard in English ?<BR/>I heard the character of tuatara changed to be interested in other gender<BR/>since remove a tumour.<BR/>Yeah sounds interesting.junjunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14316179310881967705noreply@blogger.com