ben.h wrote:Can someone tell me what animal this is (was)? I assume it is a carnivore from the teeth. Approx size: 220 - 300ml end to end.
Do you have more photos? My first guess would be wombat. compare here.
ben.h wrote:Can someone tell me what animal this is (was)? I assume it is a carnivore from the teeth. Approx size: 220 - 300ml end to end.
the_camera_poser wrote:Have you found out what the skull is yet? You could email the pic to the National Museum for ID.
woka wrote:Does this count:
I mean to say, those eye are pretty evil!
There was the time I found a roo tick on my.... no, let's not go there <shudder>.
Speculator wrote:woka wrote:Does this count:
I mean to say, those eye are pretty evil!
There was the time I found a roo tick on my.... no, let's not go there <shudder>.
Hahaha... probably not, but it is frickin hillarious!
I have a photo with a similar theme here, it was taken on track, looking for a geocache that had gone missing!
L8r.
corvus wrote:Hey tasadam are you a scardy cat around spiders ,anything that kills Mozzies is a friend in my books I even catch and release white tips from my house and any Huntsmen/women I treat like friends
tasadam wrote:Cave spider, in an adit, Montezuma Falls.
img http://www.tasadam.com/forumstuff/bushw ... spider.jpg
the cave spider, which is found only in Tasmania and has many unusual characteristics.
One of these is its courtship and mating, which can take up to six hours.
The male must spend hours wooing the female, seductively tapping her on the head with one of his legs.
He aims to get her in a "tight embrace", using legs specifically shaped for this task, while avoiding being bitten.
"If she hasn't eaten for long enough she will have a go at eating him", Dr Doran said.
Unlike most spiders, which make a vertical web, Hickmania troglodytes spin a horizontal mesh which snares insects that fall from the cave roof. Occasionally it will jump up and down on the web to find out whether an insect has been captured.
The spider, which can grow to a leg span of 18cm, is found mainly in caves, including Mole Creek and Mt Wellington systems, but also in rainforests and mine shafts.
Its origins date back more than 200 million years.
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