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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens
I was meeting with some friends at Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens today, so I took my camera along to see what I could see. Eastern water dragon (Physignathus lesueurii lesueurii) Eastern water dragon (Physignathus lesueurii lesueurii). He’s opening his mouth … Continue reading
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Karawatha Forest
There was a bit of rain about on Saturday night, so some friends and I decided to go down to Karawatha Forest to have a poke around. We heard and saw lots of eastern sedgefrogs (Litoria fallax), plus we heard … Continue reading
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Back from extinction
The armoured mist frog (Litoria lorica) was last seen in 1991 and was thought to have be wiped out by the fungal disease chytridiomycosis. But Professor Ross Alford from James Cook University has told reporters that the frog has been … Continue reading
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