Wildlife of Australia |
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... python , lie in water and catch animals coming to drink . Some wait in trees or in rock crevices for animals to pass by . Killing is not so much by crushing as by suffocation . The steady pressure prevents breathing and possibly even ...
... python , lie in water and catch animals coming to drink . Some wait in trees or in rock crevices for animals to pass by . Killing is not so much by crushing as by suffocation . The steady pressure prevents breathing and possibly even ...
Page 147
... python , 132 Black snake , 135 , 136 Black swan , 67 , 68 , 103 Blind snake , 130-1 Blossom bat , 46 Blue bald coot , 74 Blue crane , 65 Blue heron , 65 Blue jay , 86 Blue pigeon , 86 Blue - tongue skink , 121 Blue whale , 52 Blue ...
... python , 132 Black snake , 135 , 136 Black swan , 67 , 68 , 103 Blind snake , 130-1 Blossom bat , 46 Blue bald coot , 74 Blue crane , 65 Blue heron , 65 Blue jay , 86 Blue pigeon , 86 Blue - tongue skink , 121 Blue whale , 52 Blue ...
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... Python , 129 , 131-2 Quail - thrush , 87 Quokka , 15 , 37 , 39 , 70 Quoll , 25 Rabbit , 15 , 43 Rabbit bandicoot , 28 Rabbit rat , 44 Rail , 73 Rainbow bird , 82 Rainbow lorikeet , 77 Rain forest , 7 , 12 Rat , 44 Ratcliffe , F. , 46 ...
... Python , 129 , 131-2 Quail - thrush , 87 Quokka , 15 , 37 , 39 , 70 Quoll , 25 Rabbit , 15 , 43 Rabbit bandicoot , 28 Rabbit rat , 44 Rail , 73 Rainbow bird , 82 Rainbow lorikeet , 77 Rain forest , 7 , 12 Rat , 44 Ratcliffe , F. , 46 ...
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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