NitroX
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| 23/09/09 11:53 AM |
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Re: Day at the Office
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A Goulds Sand goanna this is quite a wee one,part of a colony living on a site very close to the 'burbs where I conduct a feral management plan for the owners.
I've never seen a goanna like that anywhere near here and you are only an hour or so away. I guess dogs and foxes (cats as well?) have a big impact on goannas? Also do they like drier country, as compared to the slightly wetter Barossa?
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Absolutely fascinating. The Australian experience is nearly unknown to me and I am always amazed at pictures of what seems to be {to our eyes} desert/low carrying capacity ground that produces an amazing variety of animal life!
Ha ha , Ann, much of typical Australia looks like that. I'm guessing John W photos are from the Northern Adelaide plains, lots of cereal farming, grazing, and the photo looks like low Mallee scrub.
If you have ever seen the TV series "McLoud's Daughters", it is/was filmed on a property situated half way between the Adelaide Plains and Barossa. Actually the ancestral house of an acquaintance of mine, but sold by the family since. There name wasn't "McLoud".
In the opposite direction East of the Ranges we have a rain shadow (look for a film called "Rain Shadow" with Rachel Ward) and lots of mallee and salt bush scrub, limestone rocks covering the surface and lots of roos, emus, lizards, snakes, rabbits and paddock lice (sheep
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