spencer’s burrowing frog
DESCRIPTION
Spencer’s burrowing frog. It lives in the sandy riverbeds in central Australia. Size 30-45mm.It eats insects and termites. This frog does not chew like humans but instead swallows it. Barking spider. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Spencer’s burrowing frog
• It lives in the sandy riverbeds in central Australia. Size 30-45mm.It eats insects and termites. This frog does not chew like humans but instead swallows it.
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Barking spider
• They live in mulga country. They eat insects lizards and frogs. Females can live up to 20 years. Their Predators are dingoes, feral cats, red foxes, and owls. Threats are tourists and rubbish in their habitat.
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Bush Flies
The bush fly is a reddish brownish colour.They eat human blood, especially from the face.
There predators are humans and fly nets.The size of a bush fly is 8mm.
The bush fly is related to the common house fly.The bush fly family is called Muscidae
The bush flies live mainly in the Northern Territory.
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This specimen was found in a little pool of water at the top of Uluru. It is sitting in a camera lens cap, and has a diameter of 62 millimetres (just over half a cm)
Photo taken by Gavin Chester, Dwellingup, Western Australia
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/lastword/2009/06/life-on-uluru.html
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Spinifex hopping mouse• Pregnancy takes up to 38-41 days, Spinifex
hopping mice live in small family groups.• Spinifex hopping mice live underground in
central Australia, They are also found in sand dunes.
• The Spinifex hopping mouse eats beets and quandong.
• It’s predators are hunters, rodents and birds.
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Termites
• Termites are critically important because they remove and recycle dead plant materials.
• Termites live in Uluru-Kata Tjuta national park
• Termites eat soil, dry wood, damp wood and grass.
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Inland aedes mosquito• Meet the deadliest creature on earth-
passes on deadly diseases like malaria• Feeds off all mammals blood• Lay eggs in small water filled cavities• Swat it or use fly spray to prevent being
bitten or cover up with top to toe clothing and sleep with a fly net
• More prevalent during autumn but present at all times of the year
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Marbled velvet gecko
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Mulgara
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Perentie
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Bandy Bandy
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Bilby
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Wedge tailed eagle
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Maku-witchetty grubs
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Sandhill Dunnart
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Echidna
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Marsupial Moles