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Monotremata (Monotremes) - Dictionary definition of Monotremata ...  Definition of Monotremata (Monotremes)  Our online dictionary has ... However, the duck-billed platypus is one of those cases where fact is at least as .... in suburban settings, due to legal protection and environmental restoration projects. .... Never as widespread or abundant as its two Australian relatives, Zaglossus is now...
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Free Flashcards about GENERAL SCIENCE - StudyStack  ONCE HUNTED FOR ITS PELT, THIS AUSTRALIAN MONOTREME IS NOW PROTECTED BY LAW, DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS. THIS SCIENCE, NATURE, AND...
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Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes - Recovery ...  Wildlife Australia, December 1996 ISBN 0 6422 1395 X Contents > Previous > Next ... Also much reduced in most of NSW ; now absent from western slopes and plains of ... The species was also hunted extensively in the Grampians area of Vic . .... Over-exploitation by hunters for export of pelts contributed to their demise...
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jeopardy/1709_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  MUCH ADO ABOUT NUTTING | It's where these nuts are in a classic holiday song: .... Once hunted for its pelt, this Australian monotreme is now protected by law...
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Platypus - Wikipedia  The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), also known as the duck-billed platypus, is a ... It is one of the few venomous mammals, the male platypus having a spur on the ... Until the early 20th century, it was hunted for its fur, but it is now protected ... When the platypus was first encountered by Europeans in 1798, a pelt and...
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What is Killing the Tasmanian Devil? | Science | Smithsonian  Once common, the world's largest carnivorous marsupial is now endangered. ... But the devils are actually shy rather than demonic, and they provide valuable ... They were once scattered throughout mainland Australia, but dingoes, a type of ... ago in a female devil; descendants of cells in her tumor live on in victims today.
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ShukerNature: AT LAST - MY VERY OWN MYSTERY ANIMAL ...  Sep 16, 2014 ... Just before midnight, I was approaching a series of small side-roads on the ... Wallabies, conversely, do have grey fur in some species, but it is not ... that it must have concealed itself in one of these gardens, but which one, and where? ... has no problem whatsoever in identifying living mammals (or birds),...
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exZOOberance - Sea Turtle  Aug 7, 2015 ... The loggerhead and the olive ridley sea turtles have true, but ... bony carapace and is the only living turtle to have free ribs and vertebrae. ... The hawksbill has also been hunted for its shell and has been classified as a threatened species. Scientific classification: The leatherback is the sole representative of...
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Monotreme - Wikipedia  Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs (Prototheria) instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials (Metatheria) and placental mammals (Eutheria). The only surviving examples of monotremes are all indigenous to Australia .... Early researchers were misled by two factors: firstly, monotremes maintain a lower average...
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On this day: Aboriginal Australians get Uluru back - Australian ...  Oct 26, 2010 ... It was 25 years ago that Uluru was officially returned to its Aboriginal traditional owners. ... the great monolith of Uluru is sacred to Australia's Aborigines for its place in ... Twenty-five years ago, on 26 October 1985, it was the focus of a ... of the system of Aboriginal traditional law and land ownership that was...
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Birds and Seals of Antarctica  These two kinds of animals are the most conspicuous and well known ... Penguins are flightless birds are adapted to a life at sea. ... In general, most Antarctic animals don't show fear of man, as they have evolved without land predators. ... They are hunted by killer whales and leopard seals, and many animals bear the scars...
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Marine Mammals - MarineBio.org  Marine mammals evolved from their land dwelling ancestors over time by ... These adaptations allow sea otters to stay submerged for 4 to 5 minutes and ... is the Weddell seal, which can stay submerged for at least 73 minutes at a time at depths up to 600 m . The length and depth of whale dives depends on the species.
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Jeopary Questions page 1752 - SHORT FICTION - TriviaBistro.com  WHEN AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS ATTACK: In 2002 a woman lost part of an ear to this marsupial, apparently off its eucalyptus diet; not so cute.
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Animals and Fossils - WordPress.com  These animals were relatively common across most of Australia during the Pleistocene period. They ... Its principal habitat was open forest and woodlands where its major source of food, ... If disturbed they behave as individuals or pairs, scattering in all directions. .... Queensland, central Australia and New South Wales.
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[SHUBIN:] Our planet is teeming with many kinds of animal life ...  that buried in the crust of the earth were animals that connected one major group to another. Such ... Over the decades, it's become a standard talking point for those who ... They also all have a backbonethey're vertebrates. The ... too, I mean, no paleontologist had worked on that, expressly looking for early tetrapods.
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Dolphin - Wikipedia  Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic marine mammals. They are ... Besides drive hunting, they also face threats from bycatch, habitat loss, and .... aduncus; Burrunan dolphin, Tursiops australis, a newly discovered species ..... Playful behaviour that involves an other animal species with active...
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Aboriginal female hunters aided by dingoes - ScienceNetwork WA  Oct 23, 2015 ... ... then they probably came here as a domesticated animal, she says. But then when they got here they went wild. Dr Balme says previously collected DNA evidence suggests dingoes could have been introduced at two locations, ... on a wider variety of small animals after the dingoes arrived in Australia.
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A Sacred Reunion: The Colorado River Returns to the Sea ...  May 19, 2014 ... Scientists had not planned on the river reaching its estuary as part of this grand experiment. ... The last time the Colorado reached the sea was in 1998. ... mesquite to begin re-establishing habitats for hundreds of species of birds and wildlife. .... Would any of the readers here go 'ga ga' and thank China for...
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Island Conservation Saving Australia's Imperiled Island Wildlife from ...  Feb 25, 2016 ... Saving Australia's Imperiled Island Wildlife from Invasive Rats and ... now extinct on the Australian mainland, islands are their last refuge. ... in conserving our island wildlife, but this innovative new partnership .... First Name:.
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Summary/Reviews: Carnivorous nights :  Tragically, this rare and powerful animal was hunted into extinction in the early part of the twentieth century. ... Journeying first to the Australian mainland and then south to the wild island of ... and a large predator with a pouch was-or perhaps still is-queen of the jungle. .... But no more tigers, live or dead, were captured.
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Conservation in the Australian Outback | Travel + Leisure  A small group of guests and I, led by a Zimbabwean guide named Paul ... and marsupials in the past 10 years, leaving many of these species now in collapse. ... Australia is also an island ecosystem, though it's an exceptionally large one. ... named for explorer Matthew Flinders, who circumnavigated Australia in 1802.