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	<title>Stewed Thoughts by Stewart Macdonald</title>
	<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog</link>
	<description>Some random thoughts, gently stewed, served on a bed of love</description>
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		<title>Tree roo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night at the Curtain Fig I saw a tree kangaroo! We also saw (at another location) a giant scrub python and two chameleon geckos. We&#8217;re heading to Chillagoe now.
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		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/11/tree-roo/</link>
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		<title>Dryandra Woodland - revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of October I went over to the TDWG (the international organisation for biodiversity information standards) 2008 conference. The conference was a great success and a fantastic networking opportunity. There was, however, a distinct lack of reptiles at the conference. So at the end of the week I went down to revisit Dryandra <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/11/dryandra-woodland-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Numbat hunting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back at Dryandra Woodlands in Western Australia, looking for more numbats. Sorry if I haven&#8217;t replied to your email. I&#8217;ll reply when I get back in a week or two.
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		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/10/numbat-hunting/</link>
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		<title>Posting from my iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m typing this on my brand new iPhone. I think I need smaller fingers.

I can even add a photo. This inane drivel is brought to you by the WordPress app for iPhone.
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		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/10/posting-from-my-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s opening his mouth and standing erect as a way of warding off a smaller dragon that&#8217;s out of frame.


	
Eastern water <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/09/mt-cootha-botanical-gardens/</link>
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		<title>Karawatha Forest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 another species that I&#8217;m yet to identify.

	
Eastern sedgefrog (Litoria fallax).


	
Eastern sedgefrog (Litoria fallax).


	
Eastern sedgefrog (Litoria <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/09/karawatha-forest/</link>
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		<title>Back from extinction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 found in rainforests to the north and west of Cairns:
&#8220;It turns out that these frogs <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/09/back-from-extinction/</link>
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		<title>A real macropod</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bigfoot found - for real?
If this is true, it&#8217;s earth-shattering stuff.
Bigfoot in a freezer?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
BIGFOOT BODY FOUND
DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a
PRESS CONFERENCE
to be held on
Date: Friday, August 15, 2008
Time: From 12Noon-1:00pm
Place: Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto (A Crown Plaza Resort) 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94306
See more <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/a-real-macropod/</link>
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		<title>Recent environmental news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brown tree snakes destroying more than just Guam&#8217;s birds
A brown tree snake
In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators. Unchecked for many years, the snakes caused the extinction of nearly every native <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/recent-environmental-news/</link>
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		<title>The Stewed Thoughts match-making service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a message directed at the hundreds of single guys who read this blog daily. A good friend of mine&#8230; Well, we&#8217;ve only just met recently, but she&#8217;s sent me a couple of dozen emails since last night so it feels like we&#8217;ve been friends for ages&#8230; Anyway, this lovely young woman - Oksana <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/the-stewed-thoughts-match-making-service/</link>
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		<title>SMOT - spam message of today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From: Emmett Ochoa
Who do you turn to when the only person in the world that can stop you from crying, is exactly the one making you cry?
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		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/smot-spam-message-of-today/</link>
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		<title>An interesting take on climate change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people are apparently welcoming climate change. Grape growers in Austria (note: that&#8217;s a little country in Europe, not a huge mass of land keeping the Indian and Pacific oceans separate) have found the warmer conditions to be quite beneficial.
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		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/an-interesting-take-on-climate-change/</link>
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		<title>Picture of a modern-day thylacine?</title>
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A striped mammal has been photographed by a camera trap set in a remote forest. Is this the sole surviving thylacine? Unfortunately not, as this Edge of Existence blog post shows.
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		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/picture-of-a-modern-day-thylacine/</link>
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		<title>Google Maps Australia gets StreetView</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Search engine giant Google has today introduced StreetView into its online mapping system. While users have long been able to view maps and satellite imagery for specific locations, StreetView now allows users to go on a virtual tour of many streets by providing images taken from car-mounted cameras.
Have a look at this example. Click on <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/google-maps-australia-gets-streetview/</link>
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		<title>Tortoise Porn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Galapagos Islands, there lives a lonely boy. Well, he&#8217;s at least 60, so we can&#8217;t really call him a boy. He&#8217;s lonely not for want of trying on the part of his neighbours. Many girls have been offered to him, but he&#8217;s refused all of them. That is, until now. Possibly.
Lonesome George, believed <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/tortoise-porn/</link>
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		<title>Savannah cat importation banned in Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia&#8217;s Environment Minister Peter Garrett has today banned savannah cats from Australia, saying they pose an extreme risk to native animals and the environment.
&#8220;On all the evidence that I have seen, the risks associated with allowing this cross-bred cat into the country, when we already have up to 12 million feral cats wreaking havoc on <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/savannah-cat-importation-banned-in-australia/</link>
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		<title>More amazing animal photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great white shark versus virtually defenseless seal.
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		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/07/more-amazing-animal-photos/</link>
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		<title>Leopard vs crocodile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s not a new B-grade horror movie. It&#8217;s a series of images taken in Africa&#8217;s Kruger National Park. See the images at the Telegraph.
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		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/07/leopard-vs-crocodile/</link>
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		<title>Karijini National Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the way from Cape Range to Karijini we drove though a lot of spinifex country and saw a number of dragons dashing off the road as we went by. We stopped and tracked one down to find it was a ring-tailed dragon (Ctenophorus caudicinctus).

	
Ring-tailed dragon (Ctenophorus caudicinctus).



	
Ring-tailed dragon (Ctenophorus caudicinctus) habitat.

On the way into <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/05/karijini-national-park/</link>
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		<title>Cape Range National Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We arrived late at night after an all-day driving session from Hamelin Pool. While driving through the park we found the snake species we were looking for - the Pilbara death adder (Acanthophis wellsi).

	Pilbara death adder (Acanthophis wellsi).


It was a very small and cooperative individual. We moved it off the road and it sat there <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/05/cape-range-national-park/</link>
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		<title>Monkey Mia and Hamelin Pool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monkey Mia
Still in Shark Bay, we had to go and see the famous Monkey Mia dolphins.




Dean wanted to get some sunrise shots. It&#8217;s not often that Western Australians can see a sunrise over the sea. The place was very touristy, which is to be expected of a tourist attraction. We saw some dolphins waiting to <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/05/monkey-mia-and-hamelin-pool/</link>
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		<title>Shark Bay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we&#8217;re heading up to Shark Bay, the first stop on our two week adventure. I&#8217;m heading out with Dean Bradshaw and Farhan Bokhari. As we left Perth I noticed that the latest in hair fashion has only just arrived in Perth.

	The latest in hair fashion has just arrived in Perth


After a very long drive <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/02/shark-bay/</link>
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		<title>Into the Rat&#8217;s nest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the last couple of days on Rottnest Island. Information on the island abounds, so this will just be a brief pictorial overview of my time on the island. I&#8217;m heading off to Shark Bay early tomorrow morning.
Rottnest is famous for many things, but none more so than its quokkas (Setonix brachyurus)

	Quokka (Setonix brachyurus)


It <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/02/into-the-rats-nest/</link>
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		<title>Leaving for Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon Alecia left for her seven-month-long trip to Africa. Before she left she wanted one last look at the gorgeous tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus) one can find here in Western Australia, so we all headed down to a nearby lake to try our luck. We saw two tiger snakes, but again didn&#8217;t manage to <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/01/leaving-for-africa/</link>
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		<title>Perth Zoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Alecia and I decided to get a healthy dose of zoological goodness, so we headed to the Perth Zoo.
It was an exceedingly hot day, but that unfortunately didn&#8217;t deter the crowds. We headed to the nocturnal house (as did a noisy group of teenagers) to see the ghost bats being fed. I&#8217;ve never seen <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/01/perth-zoo/</link>
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		<title>Numbat alert!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Dean Bradshaw, a friend of ours (and a fantastic photographer), picked us up and the three of us headed down to Dryandra Woodland, a small chunk of remnant wandoo forest surrounded by the vast expanses of Western Australia&#8217;s wheatbelt. Before we even entered the woodland, we found what we think is a dead tammar <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/01/numbat-alert/</link>
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		<title>The Pinnacles and Lesueur National Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got up early today to make our way to The Pinnacles, a spectacular and eerie series of rock formations near the coastal town of Cervantes.

The eerie rock formations that make up The Pinnacles












The eerie rock formations that make up The Pinnacles

It was a stinking hot day, so thankfully we were able to drive around <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/01/the-pinnacles-and-lesueur-national-park/</link>
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		<title>Tiger time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d heard that there was a healthy tiger snake (Notechis scutatus) population in the lakes around Perth. We headed to a nearby lake early today to try to find some tigers.

The view of Perth CBD from a local lake


A sign warning park-goers of the numerous tiger snakes to be found in the area. We found <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/01/tiger-time/</link>
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		<title>Perth - day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After an early start and an uneventful drive we arrived at Brisbane airport. We&#8217;d checked in online the previous day, and when we presented our printed boarding passes to the hostess at the gate they weren&#8217;t accepted. We had to go and see the guy at the ticketing counter. After a bit of faffing around <a rel="tag" href=""></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/01/perth-day-1/</link>
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		<title>A western odyssey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alecia and I are heading to Perth, Western Australia, tomorrow. We&#8217;ve got ten days together, then Alecia heads to Africa for a 7-month stint on a mongoose research project. After she leaves I&#8217;m heading up north to Shark Bay, Exmouth and the Pilbara to find some reptiles.
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		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/01/a-western-odyssey/</link>
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