Order Squamata is plentiful in Aus, I haven't even separated the serpents into their respective families blind snakes, pythons, file snakes, colubrid snakes, elapid snakes, true sea snakes, and sea kraits.
posted by Berko Wills @ 1:32 pm
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Noted for their slow movement and longevity; though this possibly doesn't apply to all members of the family Testudinidae. Australia's are turtles in the main. We have pig-nosed turtles, freshwater turtles, sliders (the red-eared slider), sea turtles and leatherback turtles.
posted by Berko Wills @ 2:02 pm
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Are reptiles - our next most abundant species - fully and fairly represented? Or are some still hiding under rocks, camouflaged? Let's go outside and look.
I would note that they are still very much of interest and a zombie crocodile park lurks further up (don't ask) as a risk when, naturally, there would be an abundance of native reptiles in that very area; along with other wildlife.
Regardless of our interest in observing them, being scared or startled by them, or any in an array of encounters, they are a natural to our sunburnt country.
To resolve the old argument we have with Americans over their habit of calling tortoises turtles, we need to look at the orders of reptiles and, lo and behold, testudines which includes both but the common term in brackets is - turtles. So perhaps it doesn't hurt not to distinguish.
As for crocodilian.
But the biggest order, taking in skinks, geckos, snakes.. is Order Squamata, or scaled reptiles
[legless lizards, dragons, monitors..]
posted by Berko Wills @ 10:57 pm
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So we seem to be short a few fish (oh no groan the remaining readers) but, don't worry, if I find more that aren't the fifth name for one already listed in either freshwater or saltwater, I'll add them to those posts.
posted by Berko Wills @ 2:12 pm
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Christopher Luxon is Prime Minister of New Zealand since November, not giving poor old Chris Hipkins long in the job.
posted by Berko Wills @ 4:25 pm
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posted by Berko Wills @ 4:11 pm
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Well I think that makes all the premiers now. Daniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria for nine years, has stepped down and the second female Victoria Premier, Jacinta Allan, leads in his stead.
posted by Berko Wills @ 3:38 pm
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In what must be a trend, Mark McGowan retired and the new Premier of Western Australia since June 2023 (yes this blog is three months behind) is Roger Cook
I think I should probably have known that, being born in WA
posted by Berko Wills @ 5:29 pm
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