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Well I may have stuffed the question , its more whay are there so many lizards & with that come species
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I'll look into it more. Night HB
Spinifex?
Think I got ya now HB.
Because of aboriginal "firestick farming" and natural fires, from lightning etc, plus the way spinifex burns?
A fire succession cycle helps to explain the high lizard diversity of the Australian interior. Fires are a predictable event in arid Australia, and generate a mosaic of patches of habitat at various stages of post-fire succession. As a more or less regular agent of disturbance, fires contribute substantially to maintaining diversity in Australian desert lizard systems. Bush fires are usually started by lightning, and can rage completely out of control for weeks on end across many square kilometers of desert. Fires vary considerably in intensity and extent. Eucalyptus trees are fire resistant and usually survive a hot but brief ground fire carried by the exceedingly flammable Triodia grass tussocks. Moreover, fires frequently spread like a net, missing an occasional isolated grass tussock or even large tracts. Effects on lizards and lizard microhabitats are drastic, yet vary from place to place. Many or even most individual lizards live through the burn itself, only to succumb in the fire-reduced habitats and microhabitats that can last for years. Fires attract hawks and crows, which feed on fire killed animals and take advantage of the lack of cover to catch survivors.
Good read here..... http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/landliz.html
Think I got ya now HB.
Because of aboriginal "firestick farming" and natural fires, from lightning etc, plus the way spinifex burns?
A fire succession cycle helps to explain the high lizard diversity of the Australian interior. Fires are a predictable event in arid Australia, and generate a mosaic of patches of habitat at various stages of post-fire succession. As a more or less regular agent of disturbance, fires contribute substantially to maintaining diversity in Australian desert lizard systems. Bush fires are usually started by lightning, and can rage completely out of control for weeks on end across many square kilometers of desert. Fires vary considerably in intensity and extent. Eucalyptus trees are fire resistant and usually survive a hot but brief ground fire carried by the exceedingly flammable Triodia grass tussocks. Moreover, fires frequently spread like a net, missing an occasional isolated grass tussock or even large tracts. Effects on lizards and lizard microhabitats are drastic, yet vary from place to place. Many or even most individual lizards live through the burn itself, only to succumb in the fire-reduced habitats and microhabitats that can last for years. Fires attract hawks and crows, which feed on fire killed animals and take advantage of the lack of cover to catch survivors.
Good read here..... http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/landliz.html
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Ok , I will start the answer.
The desert soil is so infertile , the main plant that grows in Spinifex , so your on the right track here RR.
And the spinifex here is very woody, so the only things that eat this is ?
The desert soil is so infertile , the main plant that grows in Spinifex , so your on the right track here RR.
And the spinifex here is very woody, so the only things that eat this is ?
Did you not read the first sentence in that paragraph? 8)
Once again my answer is right and your question is wrong
I stopped looking last night cause I was sure I had it. 8.(
Once again my answer is right and your question is wrong
I stopped looking last night cause I was sure I had it. 8.(
Because of the number of termites is so huge
Oh now I get it... maybe.
I nearly said Termites.
So the termites eat spinifex and the lizards eat the termites?
Damn I dead some reading on this one.
The link above is a good read.
I nearly said Termites.
So the termites eat spinifex and the lizards eat the termites?
Damn I dead some reading on this one.
The link above is a good read.
you did the hard work i only got it from the clues. hard work = your go rr
And it was a great read your link
And it was a great read your link
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Will wait for HB to verify
Thought I was right before
Still maintain I was right
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Yes RR, you got the spinifex , but didnt mention Termites , which equates to lots of food for the lizards . I saw this online somewhere or a doco , cant remember . I reckon you both should have a turn
Was a good question HB. Required lots of reading, ergo lots of learning
Ok so who was the last surviving Tasmanian Aboriginal?
I feel the C word with this one.
Ok so who was the last surviving Tasmanian Aboriginal?
I feel the C word with this one.
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Of the top of my head I think she was called Truganini. Not sure the spelling is right.
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That's the answer I would have given... til I learnt better. Truganini is imortalised in the Midnight Oil song.
That is where the C word comes into it... controversy. I always thought she was the last of her kind.
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Must be Mansell then Lol
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Diggerdude said:Must be Mansell then
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Fanny Cochrane Smith
Yes HB. Only read that last night. Always told Truganini was the last.
Fanny is the only Taswegian Aboriginal to record traditional songs on wax discs.
Fannys mother was Tanganutura from Cape Portland, her father Nicermenic was from Robbins Island. Like the other Aboriginal children at Wybalenna Fanny was taken from her mother to be trained in British ways. She was thirteen when she and the other survivors of Wybalenna were sent to Oyster Cove in 1847.
In 1854 Fanny married William Smith, a freed convict and was given a pension of twenty-four pounds a year, the cost of her keep at Oyster Cove. She also received three land grants totalling 600 acres, between 1858 and 1889, a form of compensation to her as an Aboriginal person.
Fanny and William raised 11 children. She successfully combined her traditional skills with European ways and taught her family the traditions of hunting, shell necklace and basket making.
Fanny was a well-known active member of the Nichols Rivulet community, holding many fundraising activities and donating land to the Church.
Fanny died in 1905. Many of her descendants continue to live in the South-East region of Tasmania and to work for their Community through the South-East Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation.
Your question sir...
Fanny is the only Taswegian Aboriginal to record traditional songs on wax discs.
Fannys mother was Tanganutura from Cape Portland, her father Nicermenic was from Robbins Island. Like the other Aboriginal children at Wybalenna Fanny was taken from her mother to be trained in British ways. She was thirteen when she and the other survivors of Wybalenna were sent to Oyster Cove in 1847.
In 1854 Fanny married William Smith, a freed convict and was given a pension of twenty-four pounds a year, the cost of her keep at Oyster Cove. She also received three land grants totalling 600 acres, between 1858 and 1889, a form of compensation to her as an Aboriginal person.
Fanny and William raised 11 children. She successfully combined her traditional skills with European ways and taught her family the traditions of hunting, shell necklace and basket making.
Fanny was a well-known active member of the Nichols Rivulet community, holding many fundraising activities and donating land to the Church.
Fanny died in 1905. Many of her descendants continue to live in the South-East region of Tasmania and to work for their Community through the South-East Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation.
Your question sir...
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Gold in Nichols Rivulet .
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See how much we learn ? , I have learnt more here than I did at school
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Who found Australia's oldest mammal fossil & what is it called ?
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