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The males call loudly – very loudly. If you visit a waterhole with many River Red Gums the noise can be almost unbearable. The adults live for about 2 weeks. The males can be distinguished from the female by their distinctive vocal sacs on either side of their abdomen.

Fires trash these mini-plant communities – bushfires are the main threat to snails here – it directly cooks the animals and destroys their food. In the long run I’d like get around to trying to identify some of the main crust plants they eat but that might be impossible. I’m told there hasn’t been a lichenologist through central Australia in living memory so I suspect few species here are named.

“Unveiling Tunisia” on the hijab: ‘I have noticed quite the opposite and in fact notice that many women wear hijab, especially the younger women, and at the same time mostly wear western dress, that is very tight jeans and sometimes figure hugging, revealing clothes, so perhaps the hijab is part of a modern and trendy fashion statement. When a Tunisian woman wears a veil, it is always with style.’