WILD SOUTH. YELLOW EYED PENQUIN / SEAL PUP

Documentary series exploring the unique diversity of New Zealand's natural history. This film is a tribute to the work of Dr Lance Richdale. For 15 years during the 1930s and 40s, Richdale studied the yellow-eyed penguins on the Otago Peninsula. Today, forty years later, his work is still one of the greatest studies of its kind. This dramatised documentary follows Richdale and the fortunes of a pair of penguins he knew particularly well during their final year together.
024:15 SEAL PUP: The first summer of the first pup born in the fur seal rookery on Taumuka Island off the West Coast. The pup develops a and learns from not only the adult seals but also the weka, their constant companion who patrols every corner of this richly populated rookery.