Birds are an integral part of most Australian gardens and afford much joy with their antics. Birds have a role to play in the garden in maintaining the balance of nature. For birds to be attracted to a garden, three…
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Crustaceans and molluscs (or mollusks) are both considered invertebrates yet are no more closely related to each other than they are to us. What they have in common, though, are hard outer coverings. You will have seen the shells of crabs and…
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It is a known fact that dolphins are highly intelligent and social creatures. They typically live together in pods. Some pods are small with only a few dolphins and other individual pods are quite large with as many as fifteen…
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To attract birds to a garden, they need food, water and shelter. An added bonus would be ready availability of nesting sites and materials. The following Australian natives all provide shelter, nesting sites and/or nesting materials. Native to Western Australia…
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How many of you have watched river otters in the wild? Remember that seeing them in a zoo, while interesting and entertaining, isn’t even close to the same thing, and that the behavior is likely to be different. The river…
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The Great Barrier reef is the largest Coral Reef in the world. It is located off of the Australian coast and is a whopping 1,257 miles long! Along these long miles of glittering oceanic waves, there are various types of…
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Bell-shaped body and long tentacles, rhythmically opening and closing its body as it appears to drift through the ocean’s waters. This image is just one of the cycles a jellyfish passes through in its short yet invaluable lifespan. Jellyfish are…
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Of all the more commonly known turtles such as the Box turtle, Snapping turtle, and Painted turtle, little may be known of the many other varieties of turtles that make their mark on the fascinating world of nature. The book…
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The Nile Crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus, is a formidable predator, once revered by the Ancient Egyptians but now much reduced in numbers by over hunting and habitat destruction. Its range includes Madagascar, Egypt and central Africa, as far south as Namibia,…
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Scientific types have decided it was finally time to take to the depths of the ocean on a quest to see just what might be down there. They couldn’t have imagined what they were to find. These guys went to…
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