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Page 39
... moving on the ground . Coming down a tree trunk the animals move tail first . Food is both the leaves and fruit of suitable trees , and it is fortunate that so long as enough of the natural forest country is left untouched , these ...
... moving on the ground . Coming down a tree trunk the animals move tail first . Food is both the leaves and fruit of suitable trees , and it is fortunate that so long as enough of the natural forest country is left untouched , these ...
Page 42
... move is poetry in mo- tion . The males show the red colour which has earned them the common name and can reach weights of 180 pounds . The mother has a beautiful bluish fur and is called the blue flyer . She can reach weights of sixty ...
... move is poetry in mo- tion . The males show the red colour which has earned them the common name and can reach weights of 180 pounds . The mother has a beautiful bluish fur and is called the blue flyer . She can reach weights of sixty ...
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... move in leisurely fashion for many miles and may have minor clashes with other groups . In the breeding season the choughs move back to the home base of about ten acres which is vigorously defended . Some naturalists have described ...
... move in leisurely fashion for many miles and may have minor clashes with other groups . In the breeding season the choughs move back to the home base of about ten acres which is vigorously defended . Some naturalists have described ...
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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