This week the Los Angeles Zoo announced the birth of two baby perentie lizards, the first of the species to be bred there.
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This week the Los Angeles Zoo announced the birth of two baby perentie lizards, the first of the species to be bred there.
A brave soul on Australia's NSW Central Coast recently captured a very large funnel-web spider, the world’s most venomous arachnid. The spider, the largest male of its kind ever seen, has been donated to the Australian Reptile Park, which will now put the ginormous creeper they’ve named Hercules to work saving lives.
Since 2007, marine biologists and interested amateurs have been observing a curious behavior of humpback whales called “kelping,” in which the giant cetaceans seem to be playing with seaweed. Now researchers from Griffiths University in Australia have looked into the phenomenon; their study appears in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.
In 1996 severe flooding around Brisbane, Australia swept six young bull sharks into a landlocked (mostly) freshwater lake on a golf course. The floodwaters receded but the sharks were trapped in the 51-acre lake off the 14th hole. Incredibly, the sharks lived there for 17 years.
Australia has a few million too many cats: feral cats, which kill an estimated two billion animals annually; and outdoor house cats, which whack some 83 million native reptiles and 80 million native birds every year. To address the latter carnage, many municipal councils are imposing nighttime curfews on the furry murderers.
A new study tracks the movements of Australia’s endangered northern quoll, a small carnivorous marsupial. Researchers found that the males are losing so much sleep looking for mates that it’s killing them.
The white ibis has a bad rap in Australia, where it is called “bin chicken” for its propensity to root through garbage. (Also “tip turkey,” “dumpster chook,” and “rubbish raptor.”) Now the bird is winning over its critics because it has developed a particular skill set: draining the hated cane toad of its poison.
Ornithorhynchus anatinus is one odd duck. With a tail like a beaver’s, webbed feet, nostrils that can clamp shut for underwater foraging, this egg-laying mammal seeks prey by detecting electrical fields using receptors on their bills. Having no nipples doesn’t stop them from nursing their young, which feed through pores in mama’s skin.
The long-running war over garbage in Southern Sydney in NSW, Australia has evolved into a battle of wits. On one side are the humans, who want to keep their street-side rubbish bins sealed until the garbage trucks arrive; on the other side are the cockatoos, who want the opposite.
It is a little strange that the world’s largest plant has only just been discovered. Where was it hiding all this time? The answer is underwater, just off the coast of Western Australia.
