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[WhitewaterWoman]

Interesting that yours have feathers on their heads, ours are bald. Our frogs and crustaceans must bury themselves deeper in the mud than yours, that's the only reason I can think of for needing a bald head.

And what we call a White Ibis is also known as the Sacred Ibis, from Egyptian mythology when ibis saved them from a plague of frogs. They're the same species.

You are probably correct about the bald head. Our ibis are shallow water feeders.

We have a Wood Stork that looks similar with a bald head, but is not an ibis. It is much larger.

Another bald headed bird is the otherwise splendid roseate spoonbill.

Both are in the same family as ibises, but are not ibises.

 

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A stork like bird we have is the Jabiru, but our spoonbills are just plain white. Neither of them are small birds, larger than geese.

Our pelicans are different to yours too, black and white and much larger.

 

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Found out recently that my ASD boyfriend also has ADHD. We switched on for fun this video:

then another one from same creator about ADHD. And the more the man talks the more we look at one another like this

Then he started explaining that yeah he connects to ADHD a lot, but hoped that I wont notice cause maybe I will leave him if i think that he is very problematic...like... what?
But all in all was funny, and explains now why he is all over the place when he cleans, yet gets ultra grumpy when I put plate not where he is used to it being..

 

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Camel invasion.

'Large bull camels weighing hundreds of kilos' move into NT communities

 

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Camel invasion.

'Large bull camels weighing hundreds of kilos' move into NT communities

Only NT communities - autistics weren't affected.

 

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A very big hole.

That's the Kalgoorlie Super Pit, a gold mine.

 

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Happy 30th Anniversary to one of, if not the absolute worst, episodes of Star Trek! A true stinker!

 

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Cattle mustering in Australia's Northern Territory, we do things a little bit different in this part of the world.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Cattle mustering in Australia's Northern Territory, we do things a little bit different in this part of the world.

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I liked the video, but the first thing I noticed, near the beginning was: A New York Yankee ball cap? !

The old movie clips were like our real old Wild West days of cattle ranching, when huge herds were run like that from state to state following the grazing and the market.

I have never seen cattle herded with pickup trucks and tied by their horns to available trees. Gum trees?

I suspect many won't watch the video, so I am going to point out this video is about the first ever ranch (Australian station) owned and operated by an indigenous person in Australia.

And, the station, in addition to running its cattle business, invites wayward indigenous youth from the cities to work. He does this on his own, no government program or funds.

 

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I have never seen cattle herded with pickup trucks and tied by their horns to available trees. Gum trees?

Gum Tree is just a generic term for any eucalypt, so it basically covers every tree in Australia and is usually only used to differentiate between a native tree and an import. The trees in that video mostly look like Northern Stringy Barks.

North Queensland has wet tropics because of the mountains but the rest of the north has arid tropics. Incredibly lush and green for the 4 months of the wet season but for the rest of the year it looks pretty much like what you see in that video. I mentioned to @Judge once before about dust and computers when living up there.

 

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I liked the video, but the first thing I noticed, near the beginning was: A New York Yankee ball cap? !

You'll see them anywhere that you go in the world.