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Around the World 2001 • Ice Flowers
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 Kathy having fun with an echidna, one of the world's two species of monotremes. Monotremes are the only mammals that lay eggs. |
 Shingleback, Tiliqua rugosa, from Fitzgerald N. P. displaying defensive behavior designed to startle and intimidate a predator. |
 Don't let Kathy fool you that she doesn't like reptiles. She has a lizard of her own and is mad keen about this shingleback, a large skink. |
 Frilled lizard exhibiting defensive behavior, Darwin. |
 Oenpelli python endemic to the Kakadu Escarpment, Arnhem Land |
 Belly scales of the southern heath monitor, Varanus rosenbergi, Fitzgerald N. P. |
 Western brown snake (=gwardar), Pseudonaja nuchalis, near Newman, Western Australia. |
 Northern death adder showing its proportionately long fangs for an elapid. Snake is a road-kill. I lifted its right side fang sheath and exposed a functional fang with its replacement coming in. |
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