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    Australia's night parrot, that doesn't see very well in the dark

    A night parrot that can't really see in the dark, an Australian oddity. Bit like the platypus, I guess.

    Night parrot not particularly good at seeing in the dark, study finds - Australian Geographic
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    The Eastern Ground Parrort is also another Australian ground parrot,but is diurnal.
    It was quite common on Fraser Island,many years ago,but whether it still is I don’t know.
    Cats are not found on the island,so hopefully the parrots are still there.

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    One Aussie animal that can outsmart cats and live alongside them . The long nose Potoroo. Fair dinkum you could make a Monty Python sketch out of that.

    The long-nosed potoroo outsmarts and lives alongside cats - Australian Geographic
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    Good article last weekends paper about a device that squirts poison onto the cat,which the cat will lick off.

    They have had huge success with it on trials,in fact 100% success rate.

    But it still going take a lot of time and effort to put the slightest dent in an estimated population of 15 mil wild cats.

    I have seen them on the property catching rabbits,the rabbits are not that much smaller than the cat.

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