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Thursday, 8 March 2007
Scribbly Gum The recent Queensland floods will trigger the germination of one of the strangest and most notorious plants in Australia.
Thursday, 5 October 2006
Scribbly Gum Spring in eastern and southern Australia is the time to listen out for the bizarre sounds of male koalas looking for love. They may seem passive and sleepy, but come mating time, koalas morph into aggressive, smelly creatures that you'd never want to cuddle in a million years.
Thursday, 6 April 2006
Scribbly Gum Easter bilbies are an increasingly popular alternative to the traditional chocolate rabbit. But the real bilbies are much harder to find - living secretive lives in isolated deserts across Australia, waiting for the right conditions to start a family.
Thursday, 9 February 2006
Scribbly Gum Across the Top End, baby frilled-neck lizards are hatching and heading for the heights of the nearest tree. There they'll begin their high-rise life, only descending to grab some take-away food, meet up with mates or move house.
Thursday, 17 November 2005
Scribbly Gum The northern half of Australia starts to get steamy from November. For the clued-up observer, there are a number of tell tale signs in nature that the rains are approaching, heralding the end of the humidity and the arrival of the wet.
Thursday, 28 July 2005
The Great Barrier Reef has faced many natural and man-made challenges over the years, but the effects of global warming may be its biggest challenge yet.
Thursday, 23 September 2004
Is burying hundreds of tonnes of carbon dioxide underground a novel way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or a large-scale attempt at sweeping them under the rug?
Thursday, 6 May 2004
Scribbly Gum If you're near the mouth of an east coast river on a dark night at this time of year, you might catch an eel run, when thousands of baby eels begin their gruelling migration up stream.
Thursday, 8 April 2004
Scribbly Gum The common Indian myna bird is fast becoming Australia's number one feral enemy! In autumn, mynas start to aggregate in large flocks - providing the perfect opportunity to trial a new trap that could finally provide a way to remove these clever and aggressive pests.
Thursday, 15 January 2004
Scribbly Gum Out in the murky rivers of the tropical north, Australia's most frightening predator is looking for love as the first rains of the wet season begin to fall.
Thursday, 3 October 2002
Scribbly Gum Feature Once a year, tiny cells spew from corals causing a thick, pink slick in tropical waters all around the world in an amazing natural phenomena called coral spawning.
Monday, 1 April 2002
Scibbly Gum Every March and April, the grey headed flying fox gets in the mood for love.
Friday, 1 June 2001
Scribbly Gum The curious dance of the Brolga is legendary, but we really know very little about this majestic creature. June is when Brolgas in Australia's south are making their way to the breeding grounds. In the north they're heading out with their new chicks to join massive flocks. But there's a dark shadow hovering over our Brolgas with their numbers fast dwindling in Australia's southern states.