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| Biggles | | posted 22-Feb-2004 3:52pm |
28 of these. I've also heard of a "Crown of Thorns" (coral muncher) but not a Crown of Thorns lizard. |
| Beari417 | | posted 22-Feb-2004 4:30pm |
Should get a pretty high score with this, I'm Aussie  |
cerealkiller   | | posted 22-Feb-2004 4:34pm |
I thought the Tasmanian Devil was a fictional cartoon character. |
| iwish40 | | posted 22-Feb-2004 4:57pm |
I've only seen these animals on TV...except for the Goanna and a friend sent me a picture of it that was in his tree. |
| thevelvetcure | | posted 22-Feb-2004 4:57pm |
A few of them (14) if the name was too specific then no. However we have saltwater crocs in FL too, though ours are more brackish water though  |
| pandora | | posted 22-Feb-2004 5:41pm |
I thought capybaras were native to South America for some reason. |
| Biggles | | posted 22-Feb-2004 5:53pm |
Actually now you mention it, so did I - I have images of them being herded by Peruvians....But there are a few species found in both Australia and South America, showing the way the two land masses split apart, so maybe that's the case here? |
| pandora | | (reply to Biggles) posted 22-Feb-2004 5:55pm |
Ahh, good thought. We'll have to see what Kaleb has to say about it. |
| ElvisFan67 | | posted 22-Feb-2004 5:59pm |
Kangaroo and Koala are the only ones.
Now wolf spiders are found everywhere except in cold climates. Just look underneath some rocks or anything that's been lying around on the ground for a few days during the spring, summer, and fall months. Especially during the fall, wolf spiders can be found in basements of houses when they are looking for a place to go for the winter. |
Iseult  | | posted 22-Feb-2004 6:34pm |
Centralian Meat Ant
Death Adder
Dingo
Emu
Jumping Spider
Kangaroo
Koala
Platypus
Redback Spider
Ring-Tailed Possum
Salt Water Crocodile
Tasmanian Devil
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| kaleb777 | | posted 22-Feb-2004 6:46pm |
Most but even I hadn't heard of some of these. |
| kaleb777 | | (reply to Beari417) posted 22-Feb-2004 6:47pm |
What city? I'm in Brisbane. |
| kaleb777 | | (reply to Biggles) posted 22-Feb-2004 6:52pm |
OMG! How did that happen? They aren't native to Australia at all. I think something went wrong when I was copying and pasting the names in the survey. |
| TrinityAnn | | posted 22-Feb-2004 6:54pm |
I probably recognized 1/5 of those animals lol. ironically enough, i have arachnaphobia but i knew what all the spiders but two were and even them im pretty sure ive read about or seen on discovery |
| TrinityAnn | | posted 22-Feb-2004 6:55pm |
id like to know what a forest dragon is
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| TrinityAnn |
ugh, please dont talk about that *shivers* i cant even kill a house spider unless its on the floor and im wearing shoes lol |
| southernyankee | | posted 22-Feb-2004 7:26pm |
Blue Tongued Lizard, Dingo- some sort of a dog, Kangaroo, Koala, Tasmanian Devil, Wombat. |
| ElvisFan67 |
What you refer to as a "house spider" may just be a wolf spider. They're kind of grayish with black and yellow stripes down their back, and their leg span covers one to two inches when they're full grown. But you are not alone--when I see one of those spiders, especially in the house, I freeze just like a statue!  *shivers, too* |
| Amanda | | posted 22-Feb-2004 10:23pm |
Only 9 of these. I guess I need to watch The Discovery Channel more often. |
| TrinityAnn |
spiders are definitly one animal/insect i could live without...im not sure why....they have just always seemed so creepy to me....i thought wolf spiders were big and thick? ones im talkin about are like brown, sometimes black and relativly small |
Strider   | | posted 23-Feb-2004 12:32am |
I. Bandicoot
II. Dingo
III. Echidna
IV. Kangaroo
V. Kinkajou
VI. Koala
VII. Kookaburra
VIII. Platypus
IX. Tasmanian Devil
X. Trapdoor Spider
XI. Wallaby
XII. Wolf Spider
XIII. Wombat
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| Kristal_Rose | | posted 23-Feb-2004 6:00am |
25 of them. Australian life is so cool, at least the marsupials. I'm not so crazy about all the venemous things. |
| Biggles |
Spiders are arachnids, not insects - they have 8 legs like mites and ticks rather than 6 like insects. However, both arachnids and insects are part of thelarger Arthropod group |
| ROCKMAN | | posted 23-Feb-2004 8:24am |
I've heard of a lot of these. (about 35 of them) I like reptiles and I watch the Croc Hunter a lot. I like that guy, he gets so into it. |
bill  | | posted 23-Feb-2004 8:56am |
We used to have a Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo as a pet. I hear there are huge flocks of them in OZ. I'd like to see that someday. I bet they are super-annoying, but also pretty.
I hear that Australia has more poisonous snakes and spiders than any other place on earth. |
| Jody | | posted 23-Feb-2004 9:04am |
I remember one of the earliest easter eggs I ever knew was in the old Digital Equipment Corporation database product called Datatrieve. The product had a command line interface (that was all you got back then). If you were using Datatrieve and you wanted help, you would type Help and then the word you wanted, like "Help Query" or something like that. You could also type "Help Wombat" to find out about wombats, and "Help Wombat Advanced" for further information on their habits. This was, I think, mostly in the mid-80s, but the developers team had, I believe, adopted the wombat as their mascot, so this was a fond tip of the hat. Sorry to digress, but Wombats brought this up for me. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Jody) posted 23-Feb-2004 10:12am |
On our colleges machine, if someone dropped a punch card with 'call mickey' into your deck, your batch print-out would be interupted with a text poster of mickey-mouse. I like the wombats a lot better. I was in a community college. The local university (UC Santa Cruz) had the banana slug as it's official mascot. |
| freebird | | posted 23-Feb-2004 1:08pm |
I would love to visit Australia--these seem so exotic, but I have only heard of a few. |
| ElvisFan67 |
The wolf spiders I'm referring to don't spin webs--they're ground hunters, like tarantulas. And they move so quickly--you have to move like lightning to kill one. They move as much as one mph, which is FAST for a spider! |
| Irene007 | | posted 23-Feb-2004 10:31pm |
Quite a few - 30 out of 53
I thought the Quetzal was from South America... |
| Irene007 | | posted 23-Feb-2004 10:34pm |
Come to think of it, yes it is in South America like the Quetzal too.
Have you ever heard of the Coypu or Nutria (same creature, different name)? |
Zang  | | posted 23-Feb-2004 11:45pm |
I've "heard of" quite a few, but the only ones I could recognise would be: Dingo (looks like a wild dog), Dugong (sort of like a manatee), Emu (sort of like an ostrich), Kangaroo, Koala and Platypus, I'm pretty sure everyone knows what THEY look like.
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| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Zang) posted 24-Feb-2004 1:46am |
If you were ever face to face with a tasmanian tiger - looks like a tiger in the front, and a kangaroo in the rear, I bet you'd be thinking 'That thing HAS to be from Australia' (If not 'Holy Fudge! Get me out of here.') |
| pandora | | (reply to Irene007) posted 24-Feb-2004 7:55am |
I've heard the name nutria before, I had no idea it was another name for a capybara! For some reason I thought it was a bird. |
| Irene007 | | posted 24-Feb-2004 8:33am |
They are similar but I'm not sure they're the same animal... |
| Kristal_Rose | | posted 24-Feb-2004 8:38am |
I heard a tale that in the early days of the Spanish conquest of South America, the capybara was classified as a fish. The resoning was simple: it swam in rivers quite a lot, the pope wasn't there to observe otherwise, and the soldiers would much rather eat capybara than pirhana on fridays. |
| Biggles |
That's true (about the capybara). It was when the missionaries went to convert the locals to Christianity - they got a special decree from Rome defining them as fish I've heard similar things about similar animals too. |
| sonikJ | | posted 24-Feb-2004 9:23am |
Too many to mention....I used to watch a lot of Animal Planet when we had a dish. I was obsessed with the Jeff Corwin and Steve Irwin shows. |
| Zang |
Yeah, what's that all about? Maybe God was drunk that day... |
| pandora |
How crafty of them! Reminds me of the fried guinea pigs on a stick that street vendors sold in Ecuador. Didn't try one, but they seemed to be quite popular. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Zang) posted 24-Feb-2004 11:00pm |
That would explain it. Perhaps the world was designed by alien employees, and they left designing Australia till after the product launch party. They were out of sensible ideas, and figured the majority of civilisation won't find the place for a couple millenia anyhow. |
| Kristal_Rose | | posted 24-Feb-2004 11:03pm |
Back in HS, we used to play D&D and one of my friends had opened a concession chain of 'hot rat on a stick'. We also invented things like 'ratapults' for our fasntasy gaming.
I didn't know people actually did such a thing. |
| Zang |
Yeah, that's it... |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Zang) posted 25-Feb-2004 10:15am |
or it's proof that the whole things maya. The few aussies I meet take things so seriously. Perhaps they're overcompensating for all the weird f_ing things hopping around in their peripheral vision. |
| Zang |
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| caviartaste | | posted 25-Feb-2004 1:25pm |
interesting survey! there are alot of these I haven't heard of...it suprised me! |
| Dino | | posted 28-Feb-2004 8:53am |
Only about 10 of them. |
| nasale |
Cockatoos! Yes! they are awesome! |
| RGirl | | posted 13-Feb-2006 10:53pm |
Many, I watch a lot of Animal Planet. |
