Category Archives: Animals

Camp Dog of the week: “Ding” the Dingo Pup

He must have been a lot more relaxed being held by me because he started eating like crazy and nearly ate my fingers as I was holding the chicken neck! He was very skinny, with bones showing through his skin and I could count all of his ribs..

Australia’s shame – the Timor Sea oil spill disaster in pictures

This is a disaster of not only local, but regional and international proportions. The impending arrival of the seasonal monsoonal cycle in the coming months will substantially change the nature and location of the impact of this massive spill.

Roadkill of the week: life & death in the Pacific Garbage Patch

Not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries.

Camp dog of the week – Miku Ganambarr-Stubbs

The best fun that Miku has with dead things is with the occasional Cane Toad that she finds squished on the road outside her house. If she finds a newly road-killed Toad she will roll in its remains in an outburst of unalloyed joy…

Bird of the week: Mindjarru & Bigibila, a Yuwaalaraay story by Arthur Dodd

This is a story of the Weebill, the Emu, the Porcupine (Echidna) and some Meat Ants and how the Echidna got it’s spines. The story was told by Arthur Dodd, a Yuwaalaraay speaker from the central north-west of New South wales around Walgett.

(Cutest) Camp Dog of the Week – Mr Fluff – farting through silk on millionaires row!

Mr Fluff now has a new name, “Mali”, and is the winner, against some pretty stiff competition, of the Woolahra Council’s Cutest Dog Photo Competition.

Song poetry about birds from the Pilbara

I’m sitting here in the “Balgo Hilton” waiting for someone to come back from where I’ve just been.
We most likely passed each other on the road sometime yesterday as I struggled up the 530 kilometres of the torture that is known as the Tanami Track from Yuendumu up here to Wirrimanu – formerly known as [...]

Sniffing around at the shit-pits: watching birds at the Alice Springs Waste Stabilisation Ponds

Birds, and birders, love shit. Or more particularly in Alice Springs, they both love the fact that in the driest part of the driest continent that the average daily household use of water is a profligate 1,500 litres a day.

Life and art in the sky, Part 3 – more thoughts on Aboriginal astronomy

It may just be because 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy, but to me there seems to be a greater willingness to engage or a broader interest in Indigenous Astronomical Knowledge among the mainstream astronomical science community than there is in many other scientific disciplines.

Roadkill of the week – carnage on the Tanami Track

All about me lay the scattered, shattered remains – here the severed head, there a leg, stripped of flesh, next to the road another head, ten feet away a razor-taloned foot, wing and tail. Whatever had happened here had been brief and incredibly brutal.