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| Thread ID: 85071 | 2007-11-28 18:58:00 | Let's Match Indigenous Animals | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 616048 | 2007-11-28 21:40:00 | Don't forget the Taniwha - they live in rivers and lakes. And have a predisposition to living where a new road is about to go through, where, for a suitable exchange of piles of cash (to the local iwi - that's 'tribe', SJ) the taniwha can be made to see reason and move away....:lol: Also no photographic evidence...*whistles quietly* |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 616049 | 2007-11-28 22:35:00 | I can see that I had a ..shall we say..."certain shortsightedness here" with asking for indigenous animals when there aren't any to speak of.. Well to be fair to our native fauna, we actually had a very unique ecosystem in which the absence of mammals (due to NZ splitting off from the rest of the world before they had evolved) meant that NZ developed with birds taking over all the roles normally filled by mammals/reptiles. It's just a shame so much of it has been lost. I would so have loved to have a pet Moa ... |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 616050 | 2007-11-28 22:42:00 | Earthquakes in NZ. www.geonet.org.nz Been a few down the center of NZ lately. |
BobM (1138) | ||
| 616051 | 2007-11-28 23:34:00 | en.wikipedia.org Been bitten by one. Nasty piece of work, you can't see it with all the camo. sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 616052 | 2007-11-29 01:38:00 | . wikipedia . org/wiki/Bitis_arietans" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org Been bitten by one . Nasty piece of work, you can't see it with all the camo . sarel Looks nasty . . but try the Mojave Green ( . com/wildlife/mojave-green-rattlesnake . html" target="_blank">digital-desert . com) or Mojave Red ( . wikipedia . org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org) . These are the two that the Australian "Crikey" guy hated so much and wouldn't handle them at all . (I am very sorry I forgot his name) . I have respect for, but no real fear of the common rattlesnake . . . they can kill, but with the anti-venoms available and stocked at every ER, there are no actual deaths yearly from them except in certain areas . Here's some pictures RED ( . fws . gov/southwest/es/arizona/images/SpeciesImages/JServoss/Northern_Mohave_Rattlesnake . jpg" target="_blank">www . fws . gov) US Federal Official Pix - 2272 x 1704 - 1014k!!! GREEN ( . firstclassminers . org/sitebuilder/images/mojave_green-335x240 . jpg" target="_blank">www . firstclassminers . org) We have both of them here; I have personally been stalked by a Green a few years ago up at Lake Hemet . They don't belong there, but there he was . In fact . . . here's a site with all of Southern California's local snakes . ( . google . com/imgres?imgurl=http://www . californiaherps . com/snakes/images/cohellerisd406 . jpg&imgrefurl=http://www . californiaherps . com/snakes/snakespics . html&h=536&w=800&sz=202&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=mn18aZJ8umHPCM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3DCrotalus%2Boreganus%2Bhelleri%26gbv%3" target="_blank">images . google . com D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3D firefox-a%26rls%3Dorg . mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG) I think the ones prefixed with the name of Crotalus means poisonous . Wanna go for spiders now? I just Googled "Crikey guy" and got Steve Irwin . . sorry for the lapse . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 616053 | 2007-11-29 01:53:00 | Here is a stray introduced to NZ but still quite dangerous, you could be just walking along the street and then BAM!!! www.myjc.com |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 616054 | 2007-11-29 02:32:00 | en.wikipedia.org Been bitten by one. Nasty piece of work, you can't see it with all the camo. sarel SJ, just in case you are confused by sarel's post, he must be from somewhere else - there are no snakes indigenous to NZ. Like Ireland, we do not have any of the critters, unless they are in zoos or labs or suchlike (and I am not sure we even have them there). That is one reason perhaps why Kiwis are petrified of the darned things when they meet them overseas, and of course it is one of the reasons we feel blessed to live in Godzone... ;) |
John H (8) | ||
| 616055 | 2007-11-29 02:33:00 | Here is a stray introduced to NZ but still quite dangerous, you could be just walking along the street and then BAM!!! www.myjc.com Am I right in what I see.... a beggar talking away on his cellphone. Probably begging for an expensive Vodaphone or Telecom top up. Ken :thumbs: |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 616056 | 2007-11-29 03:07:00 | These are the two that the Australian "Crikey" guy hated so much and wouldn't handle them at all. (I am very sorry I forgot his name).Steve Irwin | Greg (193) | ||
| 616057 | 2007-11-29 03:34:00 | SJ, just in case you are confused by sarel's post, he must be from somewhere else - there are no snakes indigenous to NZ. Like Ireland, we do not have any of the critters, unless they are in zoos or labs or suchlike (and I am not sure we even have them there). That is one reason perhaps why Kiwis are petrified of the darned things when they meet them overseas, and of course it is one of the reasons we feel blessed to live in Godzone... ;) Not sure, but I don't think even zoos are allowed snakes. They've never had any at Auckland zoo as far as I can remember. Anyone know? |
Biggles (121) | ||
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