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Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?

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In nature, you’ve got your leathery skin (like elephants or crocodiles), you’ve got your fur (like beavers and red deer), you’ve got your scales (like fish and pangolins) and you’ve got your feathers (like many theropod dinosaurs … oh, and birds). Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world.

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Behn River birding

10,000 Birds

Rather than risk getting attacked the marsupials will dig into the dry riverbed until they reach water and drink from that area instead. Euros are shaggy, heavy built marsupials with hair rather than fur and male Euro can weigh up to 55 kilograms. We observed both Agile Wallabies and Euros at the Behn River.

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Where the Kingfishers Are

10,000 Birds

The highlight of the night was a Striped Possum, a large squirrel sized possum with black and white striped fur. The Northern Brown Bandicoot ( Isoodon macrourus ) is a marsupial of the forest floor. There were also massive native White-tailed Rats and the Northern Brown Bandicoot.

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