Last year I blogged about whether dingos were Australian, due to their (relatively) recent arrival in Australia from Asia. The Complete Book of Australian Mammals includes dingos (Canis lupus ssp. dingo) in the Introduced Mammals section [1]. The Introduced Species Summary Project of Columbia University also lists dingos, but describes them as “a near-native [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Animals’
Dingo, Dingo
Posted in Australia, tagged Animals, dingoes, endangered, indigenous fauna, invasive species on 2 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dinner Time
Posted in Perth, tagged Animals, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, John Forrest National Park, reserves on 5 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
A month ago we went to John Forrest National Park to look at the wildflowers. The entrance fee is $10, but because we were on a motorbike, it only cost $5. The yellow of wattle was everywhere and the pinks, blues, red and orange of Isopogon, Leschenaultia and Daviesia, among others, and flittering butterflies, [...]
Is the dingo Australian?
Posted in Australia, tagged Animals, books, cats, dogs, extinction, indigenous fauna, indigenous flora, invasive species on 10 April 2008 | 5 Comments »
Are you thinking, “Of course the dingo is Australian, what else would it be?”
I just read Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia by Adrian Franklin (UNSW Press, 2006) and it got me thinking about dingoes, cats and Illyarri gum trees. Animal Nation is about Franklin’s research into our views on animals. [...]
With bells on
Posted in Perth, cats, indigenous fauna, invasive species, tagged Animals, birds, Lazyst, Perth on 3 January 2008 | 8 Comments »
Note: If you don’t like animals being killed or you’re a bit squeamish, you might want to skip this post. See you next time.
Ayesha, Wicca and Kyah are the three cats I cohabitate with and the cat across the road thinks he’s part of the clowder. My cats are friends with the cat across the [...]
A spider’s work is never done
Posted in Perth, indigenous fauna, tagged Animals, Family, Garden, Perth, spiders on 9 May 2007 | 2 Comments »
I like spiders, because I don’t like flies and the spiders kill them for me. My neighbour doesn’t feel the same way. He has the greenest and most environmentally un-friendly lawn in the street. He spends an awful lot of time, effort, money, water and chemicals on achieving this. Despite this, we still talk over [...]
Frogs in the park
Posted in Perth, indigenous fauna, tagged Animals, birds, frogs, landscaping, libraries, Perth, property subdivision, redevelopment, Water on 5 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was walking with Sheeba the dog through the housing development near my house the other night and although some of the blocks are empty; the roads are asphalt, the empty land is sand, weeds and rubbish and the only water source is garden hoses and water features (feng shui all the way). Despite this [...]
How far did dinner travel?
Posted in Australia, Perth, tagged Animals, carbon emissions, Dissent, Family, Garden, greenhouse effect, Perth, sustainable living, Worldwide on 2 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Eating locally produced food is important and I try to, but don’t always eat as locally as I’d like. Emerging Tar Heel Leaders discussed eating locally after The New York Times featured an article the other week. A comment to his blog post mentions the Slow Food movement that’s been going since 1989.
Slow Food is [...]
Saliva on top of wet fur won’t improve your cleanliness
Posted in cats, dogs, tagged Animals, Family, Garden, saving water, Water on 27 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Every week I wash Sheeba the dog in the garden. This is mainly because she shakes water everywhere and makes a mess, but it also means the water is reused on the garden. My lawn is very patchy and unkempt, but there is one bit of lawn which is very green, even in the middle [...]
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"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
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I'm a librarian doing research, but my first love was science and as a kid I wanted to be an ecologist or botanist. Things got in the way and now I only "study" nature in my spare time. As the lazyst environmentalyst I write about what I do to try to ensure the nature of our world is still here for future generations.
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