Natural Wonders

A female longfin eel’s epic migration

A female longfin eel which could be up to 100 years old makes the journey on Banks Peninsula to the place where she will mate and die.

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Tracking humpback whales can prove tricky, but using a drone enabled the divers to capture some beautiful footage.

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Starfish pry paua carefully from the rocks, only to have them snatched away by marauding gangs of cod.

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Giant spider crabs are ruthless - if the female is wounded during fighting, the male will eat her alive.

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Divers capture rare footage of a group of increasingly aggressive sevengill sharks in the waters of Fiordland.

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When it’s time for young paradise ducks to leave the nest, they do it in breathtaking style.

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To the dolphins and gannets it’s simply meal time - but to a viewer, it’s poetry in motion.

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Two scorpion fish end up looking quite clownish as they scrap over a morsel of food.

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MHNZ made documentary history while filming White Island’s gannets for Our Big Blue Backyard.

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