Entries Tagged 'NATURAL HISTORY' ↓
a forbidden energy state
January 4th, 2011 — NATURAL HISTORY, READING, LOOKING, LEAKING, MOPPING UP
I promise you
November 16th, 2010 — NATURAL HISTORY, READING, LOOKING, LEAKING, MOPPING UP
ngarltultjarra
September 4th, 2010 — NATURAL HISTORY, READING, LOOKING, LEAKING, MOPPING UP
(which means: poor things) – these were our casualties of the road – a Diamond Dove and a Rufous Whistler…
remember the camel plague?
August 28th, 2010 — IN PERSPECTIVE, NATURAL HISTORY
There’s not much you’re allowed to photograph in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. But there’s no love lost for the feral camels that were culled last year following the invasions of local communities. Remember the uproar last Christmas when there was a camel plague Docker River? See here. This is where the remains of the cull were cremated. And there are still millions out there. Seriously.
And the solution? Some say it’s the dinner table! There’s been some talk of a central Australian camel abbatoir. But harvesting will not address the ongoing ecological issues – the ongoing pollution/loss of waterholes will have a massive impact on core populations of wildlife…
death stare fails on cane toad
August 9th, 2010 — NATURAL HISTORY, READING, LOOKING, LEAKING, MOPPING UP
Intrepid whale watchers
July 23rd, 2010 — NATURAL HISTORY, NEWS, READING, LOOKING, LEAKING, MOPPING UP
camouflage and/or symbiosis
June 18th, 2010 — NATURAL HISTORY
camouflage. noun 1. 1917, from Fr. camoufler, Parisian slang, “to disguise,” from It. camuffare “to disguise,” perhaps a contraction of capo muffare “to muffle the head.” Probably altered by Fr. camouflet “puff of smoke,” on the notion of “blow smoke in someone’s face.” I’m sure this isn’t what Gordon Bennett intended?
And then I wondered, there must be somewhere better than this window-sill for a moth to hang out, relax… which reminded me of
li-chen. noun 1. any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, or Ford Anglias.
two rares at the same time
April 23rd, 2010 — NATURAL HISTORY, READING, LOOKING, LEAKING, MOPPING UP
A black-faced cuckoo-shrike and female satin bower bird cross paths in the tree outside my office a moment ago!
vomit bags ready?
April 19th, 2010 — AVERT YOUR EYES!, CONTRIBUTORS, NATURAL HISTORY, READING, LOOKING, LEAKING, MOPPING UP
I nearly titled this post “dog p*rn”. And then I realized I’d be attracting the wrong kind of dog-lovers: if you’re brave, go here at the NYT.
going, going, gone…
February 27th, 2010 — NATURAL HISTORY, READING, LOOKING, LEAKING, MOPPING UP

