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Animals are Fascinating
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RE: Animals are Fascinating
February 6, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Archer fish..


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#32
RE: Animals are Fascinating
February 7, 2011 at 4:48 am
What a great accuracy for shooting. The archer fish is an amazing creature.

Now, here is the mimic octopus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygh1-ul6E94
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#33
RE: Animals are Fascinating
March 30, 2011 at 4:43 pm
This is called the fried-egg jellyfish:

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You can't it eat it, though.

See more: 14 Most Beautiful Jellyfishes on Earth
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#34
RE: Animals are Fascinating
March 30, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Rayaan, where do you find this stuff? It's really awesome.
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RE: Animals are Fascinating
March 30, 2011 at 8:22 pm (This post was last modified: March 30, 2011 at 8:27 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Fascinating stuff.

The Lyre bird is local, but rarely seen by most people except in a zoo. Where I live there are a lot of birds,especially parrots such as the Sulphur crested cockatoo ,Gallah, and Rainbow Lorikeet. I hear Kookaburra most days and they sometimes visit my backyard. The photo below taken from my kitchen window;it has reflective film,so is a perfect blind. I've lived here for almost 20 years. I have seen a koala ONCE, in a tree one the nearby creek (about 500 metres away) during a recent drought. I have never seen a kangaroo locally.


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Gallah

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Sulphur Crested Cockatoo


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Rainbow Lorikeets

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RE: Animals are Fascinating
March 30, 2011 at 11:45 pm
I love parrots Big Grin

This Black Palm Cockatoo is a particularly badass-looking one.

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RE: Animals are Fascinating
March 31, 2011 at 1:39 am (This post was last modified: March 31, 2011 at 1:39 am by KichigaiNeko.)
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/psych...5850919963

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RE: Animals are Fascinating
March 31, 2011 at 6:18 am
[Image: dumbo.jpg?w=448&h=450]

Dumbo Octopus.
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RE: Animals are Fascinating
April 1, 2011 at 2:49 am
(March 30, 2011 at 11:45 pm)OnlyNatural Wrote: I love parrots Big Grin

This Black Palm Cockatoo is a particularly badass-looking one.


Yeah,I think they could easily take a finger. I've only ever seen a live one once,in bird sanctuary (caged) in Western Australia.

That was the trip of my favourite photo of me with an animal.(Rottnest Island, off the coast of Perth Western Australia,1989) The animal is an adult wallaby.

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RE: Animals are Fascinating
April 1, 2011 at 3:06 am (This post was last modified: April 1, 2011 at 3:16 am by Rayaan.)
(March 30, 2011 at 6:02 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: Rayaan, where do you find this stuff? It's really awesome.

I find these stuff mostly by googling and also sometimes from blogs. Big Grin

(March 30, 2011 at 8:22 pm)padraic Wrote: The Lyre bird is local, but rarely seen by most people except in a zoo. Where I live there are a lot of birds,especially parrots such as the Sulphur crested cockatoo ,Gallah, and Rainbow Lorikeet. I hear Kookaburra most days and they sometimes visit my backyard. The photo below taken from my kitchen window;it has reflective film,so is a perfect blind.

You have a really beautiful scenery from your kitchen window ... sooo greeny ... and I love the birds, too.

(April 1, 2011 at 2:49 am)padraic Wrote: That was the trip of my favourite photo of me with an animal (Rottnest Island, off the coast of Perth Western Australia,1989). The animal is an adult wallaby.

Nice picture ... and I know there's a lot of kangaroos and wallabies where you live (in Australia).
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