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The Tasmanian snow gum, also called Mount Wellington peppermint, has been taken
as far afield as Scotland where it thrives owing to its hardiness, tolerating
salt air, drought and poor soil. The highly aromatic leaves yield gold and
olive-green dyes, and like most eucalypts the tree is a source of the essential
oil citronella. Oh, it burns very well too.

Snow gum
Eucalyptus coccifera
with vividly striped trunk.
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[200645_160407]

Storm light on Mather Point,
South Rim - Grand Canyon,
[200] Grand Canyon National Park, [200]
Arizona, USA

Auscape Image Code: 165713 (http://
library.auscape.com.au/aus/home_aus/)

Copyright (C) Tom Till/AUSCAPE

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[199725_160407] REACHING OUT

Long as it is, the giraffe's neck
has only seven vertebrae - like
any other mammal. Males use their
necks in combat that occasionally
ends in death for one - the
longer the neck and the heavier
the head, the greater the force
of a blow. Males' necks and heads
grow throughout their 20 years or
so of life (females' reach their
peak at around 10). Males also
use their necks to caress each
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[198417_050407]

BEST WISHES!

FOR A HAPPY AND SAFE EASTER BREAK

FROM ALL OF US HERE AT AUSCAPE.

[198] [198]

Bilby/Rabbit-eared bandicoot.
Macrotis lagotis
Rare and endangered marsupial
Central Australia.
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[197016_290307] Plaited stems and roots of an
old teatree growing from a moist
fissure in the ancient rocks of
the King Leopold Ranges, helping
the weathering processes
continue. The reserve protects
natural processes as well as the
wildlife dependent on them.

Melaleuca sp.
Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary
central Kimberley
[197] Western Australia [197]

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[196018_190307] Bush-hopper or Smaller
long-headed locust,
Atractomorpha lata,
face,
Japan.

[196] [196]

(C) Kazuo Unno - Nature
Production/AUSCAPE
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[194710_120307] Southern Right Whale
Eubalaena australis
breaching.
Valdes Peninsula, Province Chubut,
Patagonia,
Argentina

[194] Auscape web code: 219584 (http:// [194]
library.auscape.com.au/AUS/)

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Scarlet Leather Flower
Clematis texensis

Copyright (C) Leo Keeler/AUSCAPE
Auscape web code: 224285 (http://
library.auscape.com.au/AUS/)
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[193] [193]
Scarlet Leather Flower
Clematis texensis

Copyright (C) Leo Keeler/AUSCAPE
Auscape web code: 224285 (http://
library.auscape.com.au/AUS/)
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MAGNIFICENT
One of Australia's largest frogs, the
Magnificent tree frog averages a size of
100mm and is often found around human
buildings such as shower blocks, water tanks
and toilets. There are approximately 4740
species of frogs worldwide, 216 of which are
native to Australia.

[192] [192]
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MAGNIFICENT
One of Australia's largest frogs, the
Magnificent tree frog averages a size of
100mm and is often found around human
buildings such as shower blocks, water tanks
and toilets. There are approximately 4740
species of frogs worldwide, 216 of which are
native to Australia.

[191] [191]
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[191826_260207]

MAGNIFICENT
One of Australia's largest frogs, the
Magnificent tree frog averages a size of
100mm and is often found around human
buildings such as shower blocks, water tanks
and toilets. There are approximately 4740
species of frogs worldwide, 216 of which are
native to Australia.

[191] [191]
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[191821_260207]

MAGNIFICENT
One of Australia's largest frogs, the
Magnificent tree frog averages a size of
100mm and is often found around human
buildings such as shower blocks, water tanks
and toilets. There are approximately 4740
species of frogs worldwide, 216 of which are
native to Australia.

[191] [191]
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[191797_260207]

MAGNIFICENT
One of Australia's largest frogs, the
Magnificent tree frog averages a size of
100mm and is often found around human
buildings such as shower blocks, water tanks
and toilets. There are approximately 4740
species of frogs worldwide, 216 of which are
native to Australia.

[191] [191]
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[190547_190207] SPLENDID ISOLATION

The town of Burra was once Australia's
largest inland settlement. When rich
deposits of copper were discovered in 1845,
the population swelled to a staggering 5000.
The rise of a successful merino sheep
industry with properties such as
Collinsville Merino Stud acknowledged the
region around Burra as one of the great
centres of Australian sheep breeding.

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[189299_120207] A FIRM GRIP
Growing at a rate of 14cm per day, such is
the tenacious grip of a Bull kelp holdfast
or root, that often a piece of granite will
break off before the holdfast itself.
Current medical research holds promise that
kelp could be used to fight against the
effects of cancer.

[189] Bull kelp [189]
Durvillaea potatorum
detail of holdfast.
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[189304_120207] A FIRM GRIP
Growing at a rate of 14cm per day, such is
the tenacious grip of a Bull kelp holdfast
or root, that often a piece of granite will
break off before the holdfast itself.
Current medical research holds promise that
kelp could be used to fight against the
effects of cancer.

[189] Bull kelp [189]
Durvillaea potatorum
detail of holdfast.
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[187491_050207] COLD FEET
Why don't penguins' feet freeze? The
blood flow is finely regulated so that
they are kept just above freezing. In
the coldest conditions, the feet are
covered feathers and a fat layer from
the body so they are not exposed to
cooling winds.
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Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
detail of feet
Antarctica

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[186514_290107] With its owlish appearance, this Pallas
cat, or Manul, waits patiently for an
unsuspecting meal to pass by. Once
hunted extensively for its pelt, the
hunting of this species is now
prohibited in Armenia, Azerbaijan,
China, India, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia.

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Pallas cat
Octolobus manul
Central Asia.
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[184780_220107] HARMONY
Living in the Lacandon jungle area of
the southern Mexican state of Chiapas,
the Lacandon are a small group of Mayan
people. Believed to be descended from
the Mayan of the Yucatan Peninsula, the
Lacandon lived in the rainforest for
centuries practising sustainable
agriculture and hunting methods. Within
two decades in the 1960s and 1970s, the
forest and its wildlife were decimated
[184] with the migration of Mayan and mestizo [184]
peasants to the Lacandon in the search
for land.
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