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what is it like in australia?

Jan 02, 2008 by miranda d | Posted in Other - Australia

i live in the u.s. and was wondering what it's like in australia it sounds cool i've heard they have all the dangerous reptiles and stuff i want to go there do you have any pictures you took of australia and can you send them to me i would appreciate

I am from here in USA, but did get to go to Australia in 2000, I stayed on the Gold Coast with a friend,and she showed me a great time, The beaches are the BEST, Surfers Paradice is beautiful,along with beaches they have outdoor resturants,shopping,loads

Texas | Jan 02, 2008

Don't fear the dragon in 2012

19.05.12

Destroy your village.

Following the lunar calendar, the New Year celebration is actually called the spring festival and lasts about two weeks, says Jia-Yan Mi, associate professor of English, world languages and cultures at the College of New Jersey . It's customary to eat sticky rice dumplings, recite poetry, gift red packets of money to children, clothe yourself in the same hue, and cap everything off with a lantern festival . All to usher in the dragon, that great symbol of good.

It's also the only Chinese astrological sign that can't be found in reality. The parade of rooster, rat, ox, rabbit, snake, horse and pig can all be feasibly found on a single farm (well, maybe not the tiger ... unless it's gunning for the livestock). The dragon, however, is seen as a composite super animal, its features drawn from others: the talons of an eagle, the skin of a snake.

Yet 2012 is not simply the year of the dragon. It's actually the year of the water dragon. In Chinese astrology, each animal symbol is paired with one of five elements: fire, water, wood, earth or metal/gold, says Mi. (His daughter is a gold dragon and his son an earth dragon.)

Source: The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Amazing Reptiles: The Australian Saltwater Crocodile

This week's amazing reptile is the Australian Saltwater Crocodile! This crocodile is the largest reptile in the world! Enjoy some great ...

Continuation: Exporting Reptiles From Australia - Aussie Pythons ...

by dpedwards08

There has to be a way to have reptiles legally exported from Australia because I know of a person here in the United States that has had reptiles exported from Australia and then imported into the United States within the last several years. Why don't the Australian reptile keepers/breeders come together to make a change in the legislation governing the exportation of Australian reptiles....

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Reptiles of Australia
480 pages 		Reptiles of Australia

Creator: Steve Wilson, Gerry Swan | 2003-10-13
Compact and accessible, this guide features a full-color photograph of each species and authoritative text that describes key identification traits. Thumbnail outlines of each family group further enable easy identification.
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment, A Guide to Their Identification, Ecology and Conservation
238 pages 		Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment, A Guide to Their Identification, Ecology and Conservation

Creator: Damian Michael, David Lindenmayer, Mason Crane | Nature - 2010-07-31
It would be a great shame if future generations were to only learn about reptiles from pictures in books or from stories passed down ... This chapter explores some of the other reasons why conserving reptiles in Australia is important.
Publisher: Csiro
Field guide to Australian reptiles
272 pages 		Field guide to Australian reptiles

Creator: Stephen Swanson | Nature - 2007-07
We know very little about Australian reptiles, particularly in the area of their behavioural ecology. ... I decided to begin photographing them in the hope that others might look at the pictures and realise what I already knew — that ...
Australian tropical reptiles & frogs
72 pages 		Australian tropical reptiles & frogs

Creator: Clifford B. Frith, Dawn Frith | Nature - 1987-06-01
Particular attention is paid to the poisonous and harmless snakes of the region, and the photographs should assist the ... We have not included reptiles and frogs that are strictly confined to the Kimberley area of Western Australia, ...
Reptiles Reptiles

Nature - 2009
Photos sent become the property of REPTILES magazine and cannot be returned. Enraged by Rampage I read in the February '09 issue of REPTILES about a kid killing a bunch of reptiles in Australia. I'ma 10-year- old boy with four snakes ...

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Listening To Wild Soundscapes
NPR - May 19, 7971
These choruses in a healthy habitat, like the one we've just heard, they go kind of like this: First you hear the insects, and they establish their acoustic territory within the frequency spectrum, and then you hear the reptiles and the amphibians.

Life on the brink
Ha'aretz - May 19, 3522
Life on the brink According to the latest information, about a fifth of the world's known mammals, a third of the amphibians and more than a quarter of the reptiles are endangered. An estimated 17500 out of about 50000 known species are threatened.