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Page 102
... male and female birds look alike , the female has white about the face while here the male is black . The young are black above the beak and white below , a mixture which causes some confusion when a male dives on what looks like an ...
... male and female birds look alike , the female has white about the face while here the male is black . The young are black above the beak and white below , a mixture which causes some confusion when a male dives on what looks like an ...
Page 106
... male , after building his stick platform and putting up the two walls of the avenue , works steadily on this ... male birds build ' play nests ' perhaps scrapes in the ground or more elaborate structures- so the bower - bird male has ...
... male , after building his stick platform and putting up the two walls of the avenue , works steadily on this ... male birds build ' play nests ' perhaps scrapes in the ground or more elaborate structures- so the bower - bird male has ...
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... male . The male clasps the female in a vice - like grip often assisted by special spikes . As the female lays her eggs the male fertilises them by shedding sperm over them . It is this habit of external fertilisation which makes it ...
... male . The male clasps the female in a vice - like grip often assisted by special spikes . As the female lays her eggs the male fertilises them by shedding sperm over them . It is this habit of external fertilisation which makes it ...
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Aborigines animals areas baby bandicoots Bass Strait bats beak best known birds blue body breeding brown burrows called captivity chicks coast colour common name creature crocodiles crow David Fleay dingo dolphins dragon eaten echidna egg-laying eggs feathers feed feet female freshwater frogs geckoes giant glider goannas grass grey ground hatch head hollow honey-eaters huge hunting inches insects islands joey kangaroo killed kinds koala land legless lizards legs live lyrebirds magpie male mammals marsupials miles mother move native naturalist nest noisy scrub-bird normal northern numbat pattern perhaps plants platypus poisonous possum pouch prey python Queensland rats reptiles ring-tail rock scientists scrub-bird seals Silver-eyes skin skinks smaller snake South Australia South Wales southern species swallowed tadpoles tail Tasmania Tasmanian tiger teeth tiger toes tortoises tree turtle victim Victoria wallabies Western Australia whale wings wombats young youngsters