LAND CREATURES
CREATED BY GOD
Genesis 1:30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air,
and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life,
I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.
and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life,
I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.
WE LOVE GOD'S CREATION
ABOUT DINOSAURS
Dinosaurs in the Bible? Yes there are dinosaurs in the bible but they were not called Dinosaur. Two are mentioned they are called Behemoth & Leviathan. Both of these are now extinct with thousands of other creatures.
See more about Dinosaurs Click here to go to Dinosaur page. |
Terrible lizards, Dinosaurs, Dragons...Behemoth, Leviathan in the Bible!
The Bible gives us a framework for explaining dinosaurs in terms of thousands of years of history (Not millions), including the mystery of when they lived and what happened to them. Find out more at https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaur....
About Kangaroos: |
The kangaroo is one of Australia’s most iconic animals, and most species are endemic to Australia. There are over 60 different species of kangaroo and their close relatives, with all kangaroos belonging to the super family Macropodoidea (or macropods, meaning ‘great-footed’). The super family is divided into the Macropodidae and the Potoroidae families.
The Macropodidae (macropod) family includes kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos, pademelons, tree-kangaroos and forest wallabies. Species in the macropod family vary greatly in size and weight, ranging from 0.5 kilograms to 90 kilograms. The Potoroinae (potoroid) family of kangaroos includes the potoroo, bettong and rat-kangaroo, which live only in Australia.
Kangaroos of different types live in all areas of Australia, from cold-climate areas and desert plains, to tropical rainforests and beaches.
The Macropodidae (macropod) family includes kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos, pademelons, tree-kangaroos and forest wallabies. Species in the macropod family vary greatly in size and weight, ranging from 0.5 kilograms to 90 kilograms. The Potoroinae (potoroid) family of kangaroos includes the potoroo, bettong and rat-kangaroo, which live only in Australia.
Kangaroos of different types live in all areas of Australia, from cold-climate areas and desert plains, to tropical rainforests and beaches.
Hopping saves energy. At low speeds hopping on two legs uses the same amount of energy as running on all fours. But, at high speeds, it’s more efficient. The Achilles tendons in their hind legs act like a spring, recycling energy with every bound. A kangaroo saves energy every time it breathes. As it hops along, its diaphragm moves up and down. This empties and fills the lungs automatically. An animal walking on four legs uses more energy the faster it goes. But with a kangaroo. If it wants to go faster, it simply lengthens its stride, without changing its hopping frequency.
Koalas
About Echidnas
The Western Australian short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) or Spiny Anteater, lives exclusively on ants and termites. Its snout contains electro-receptors that detect the moving muscles of ants and termites. It burrows into ant nests and termite mounds, then enters its 18cm-long tongue and sucks the insects into its mouth. It swallows a lot of soil in the process which it excretes as cylindrical droppings. About two weeks after mating the female lays a single 15mm-long egg and incubates it in her temporary pouch for about 10 days. Echidna milk is particularly high in iron, which results in the milk being pink. The baby hatches with no spines and will remain in the pouch until it has got short spines. It will then live in a burrow and venture outside three months later.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF ECHIDNAS
CLEMENTE ET AL ECHIDNA YOUTUBE Published on Oct 3, 2016 The private life of echidnas: using accelerometery and GPS to examine field biomechanics and assess the ecological impact of a widespread, semi-fossorial monotreme. |
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C. J. Clemente, C. E. Cooper, P. C. Withers, , C. Freakley, S. Singh, P. Terrill
The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), being a monotreme, provides a unique combination of phylogenetic history, morphological differentiation and ecological specialization for a mammal. The echidna has a unique appendicular skeleton, a highly-specialized myrmecophagous life-style and a mode of locomotion that is neither typically mammalian nor reptilian but retains aspects of both lineages. We therefore were interested in the interactions of locomotor biomechanics, ecology and movements for wild, free-living short-beaked echidnas. To assess locomotion in its complex natural environment, we attached both GPS and accelerometer loggers to the back of echidnas in both spring and summer. We found that the locomotor biomechanics of echidnas is unique, with lower stride length and stride frequency than reported for similar sized mammals. Speed modulation is primarily accomplished through changes in stride frequency, with a mean of 1.39 Hz and a maximum of 2.31 Hz. Daily activity period was linked to ambient air temperature, which restricted daytime activity during the hotter summer months. Echidnas had longer activity periods and longer digging bouts in spring compared to summer. In summer, echidnas had higher walking speeds than in spring, perhaps because of the shorter time suitable for activity. Echidnas spend, on average, 12% of their time digging, which indicates their potential to excavate up to 204 m3 of soil a year. This information highlights the important contribution towards ecosystem health, via bioturbation, of this widespread Australian monotreme.
The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), being a monotreme, provides a unique combination of phylogenetic history, morphological differentiation and ecological specialization for a mammal. The echidna has a unique appendicular skeleton, a highly-specialized myrmecophagous life-style and a mode of locomotion that is neither typically mammalian nor reptilian but retains aspects of both lineages. We therefore were interested in the interactions of locomotor biomechanics, ecology and movements for wild, free-living short-beaked echidnas. To assess locomotion in its complex natural environment, we attached both GPS and accelerometer loggers to the back of echidnas in both spring and summer. We found that the locomotor biomechanics of echidnas is unique, with lower stride length and stride frequency than reported for similar sized mammals. Speed modulation is primarily accomplished through changes in stride frequency, with a mean of 1.39 Hz and a maximum of 2.31 Hz. Daily activity period was linked to ambient air temperature, which restricted daytime activity during the hotter summer months. Echidnas had longer activity periods and longer digging bouts in spring compared to summer. In summer, echidnas had higher walking speeds than in spring, perhaps because of the shorter time suitable for activity. Echidnas spend, on average, 12% of their time digging, which indicates their potential to excavate up to 204 m3 of soil a year. This information highlights the important contribution towards ecosystem health, via bioturbation, of this widespread Australian monotreme.
About Magnetic Termite Mounds
A unique sight in Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory is the hundreds of termite mounds, up to two metres high, in a wide area of empty ground. The mounds are like enormous magnetic compasses, with their thin edges pointing north south and broad backs east west minimising their exposure to the sun, keeping the mounds cool for the termites inside. Opposite them is a huge cathedral termite mound.
About Feral Donkeys
Donkeys were brought to Australia in 1866 to serve as pack animals to assist haulage teams. They are native to Africa.
In the Kimberley region of Western Australia and Victoria River (Northern Territory) the Donkey was particularly useful. They were resistant to a toxic plant that affected work horses. With the introduction of motorized transportation in the early 1900s, donkeys were released to the wild, where they formed feral herds. Today, feral donkeys are very common in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory.
It is estimated that there are millions of feral donkeys in the arid zones of central Australia, Western Australia and the Top End.
In the Kimberley region of Western Australia and Victoria River (Northern Territory) the Donkey was particularly useful. They were resistant to a toxic plant that affected work horses. With the introduction of motorized transportation in the early 1900s, donkeys were released to the wild, where they formed feral herds. Today, feral donkeys are very common in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory.
It is estimated that there are millions of feral donkeys in the arid zones of central Australia, Western Australia and the Top End.
About El Questro
El Questro Wilderness Park is located in the east of the Kimberley and extends for approximately 80 kilometres north-south and 60 km east-west, totalling just under 1,000,000 acres in size. The Kimberley is one of the world's last unspoilt frontiers - an ancient land extending from Broome in the South West to Kununurra and Wyndham near the Northern Territory border. It covers an area of 421,000 square kilometres, roughly 700km east-west by 600km north-south. That’s five times the size of Tasmania, 1.7 times the size of the United Kingdom and 10 times the size of Switzerland.
About DingoEs: |
It is thought that the wild dog of Australia, the Dingo, was brought into this country by the first inhabitants. Rock art and fossil remains evidence the antiquity of the species. The dingo colonised all mainland of Australia, but is now only found in remote areas of Australia. They are different from most dogs in that they don’t bark, only howl; breed only once a year; and have no dew claws on their hind legs. In most areas apart from National Parks the dingo is the only native species considered to be vermin.
About Cattle in THE KIMBERLEY
(A report on the ABC Rural Program) WA Government to shoot cattle in national park By Matt Brann Friday, 23/09/2011
The Western Australian government is getting ready to shoot cattle in the Kimberley's Purnululu National Park and nearby Ord Regeneration Area.
The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) says it's given neighbouring pastoralists plenty of warning, and will begin the cull in November.
Regional manager Darryl Moncrieff says numbers are building up in the conservation areas and causing significant damage to the environment.
"We don't want to shoot people's cattle," he said.
"We were going to do the aerial shoot in October, but we recognise there's some issues down there with fires at the moment, people are busy, so we've pushed that back another six weeks.
"So that's given people two to three months to do some mustering before we go in."
Mr Moncrieff says the department has no estimates on how many cattle may be shot, but says if his team come across "decent mobs of cattle", pastoralists will again be notified in case they want to muster them up.
Since May last year, the DEC has shot about 3,800 head of cattle in the Kimberley, mostly around the Mitchell Plateau National Park.
The Western Australian government is getting ready to shoot cattle in the Kimberley's Purnululu National Park and nearby Ord Regeneration Area.
The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) says it's given neighbouring pastoralists plenty of warning, and will begin the cull in November.
Regional manager Darryl Moncrieff says numbers are building up in the conservation areas and causing significant damage to the environment.
"We don't want to shoot people's cattle," he said.
"We were going to do the aerial shoot in October, but we recognise there's some issues down there with fires at the moment, people are busy, so we've pushed that back another six weeks.
"So that's given people two to three months to do some mustering before we go in."
Mr Moncrieff says the department has no estimates on how many cattle may be shot, but says if his team come across "decent mobs of cattle", pastoralists will again be notified in case they want to muster them up.
Since May last year, the DEC has shot about 3,800 head of cattle in the Kimberley, mostly around the Mitchell Plateau National Park.
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About Butcher birds The grey butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus)
Western Australia, has one of the most fantastic melodic whistles of all Australian birds. The song is typically started by the male and then continued by the female, repeating until completed or until the female quits. Grey Butcherbirds are aggressive predators. They prey on small animals, including birds, lizards and insects, as well as some fruits and seeds. They get the name ‘Butcher’ from there habit of storing food in the fork of a tree or impaling it on a branch, like a butcher hangs his meat. |
REPTILES - Snakes, Lizards & Crocodiles we have seen.
BELOW: These are dead snakes a python & a sea snake & no I did not kill them!
The Australian Gould’s Goanna (Varanus gouldii) is also known in some Aboriginal languages as Bungarra. The one in my painting is almost 1.5 meters long on barren red earth in the Murchison region of Western Australia.
About Crocodiles |
In Australia we have Freshwater & Saltwater Crocodiles.
Freshwater crocodiles have longer, thinner snouts than ‘Salties’ with a straight jawline & their teeth are nearly all of equal size. Saltwater Crocodiles or Australian Estuarine or Indo-Pacific crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is the largest of all living reptiles and can be found right across northern Australia. They have a broad, powerful snout, with an uneven jawline. Their teeth vary in size some are almost twice the size of the others. |
PAINTINGS of CROCODILES by Rex Woodmore
About Aliens in the Bible
My wife and I camped alone in the outback at Wycliffe Well (Said to be the UFO center of Australia) The area has such a reputation for the unexplained that even the Royal Australian Air Force has conducted investigations. The only UFOs we saw were insects that we could not identify! (UFIs?)
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For over 50 years there have been countless reports of sightings of strange things in the sky at Wycliffe Well. The area has such a reputation for the unexplained that even the Royal Australian Air Force has conducted investigations. For over 50 years there have been countless reports of sightings of strange things in the sky at Wycliffe Well. The area has such a reputation for the unexplained that even the Royal Australian Air Force has conducted investigations. For over 50 years there have been countless reports of sightings of strange things in the sky at Wycliffe Well. The area has such a reputation for the unexplained that even the Royal Australian Air Force has conducted investigations.
Some versions of the Bible refer to Christians as aliens others as strangers, foreigners, nomads or exiles on this earth.
Hebrews 11:13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth
Hebrews 11:13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth
Do I believe in UFOs? ...Should I even mention them?
I believe there are things that people see that they cannot identify.
I saw some sort of a flying bug that I couldn’t identify, so I guess it is (to me) a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object).
Years ago before I became enlightened, I looked into these things and even attended a UFO research meeting. Suffice to say, I didn’t go back.
I did once see a mystery cherry red light, in the midst of a sudden very heavy downpour of rain over the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia, that I could not explain. but today the short answer would be ‘’No I don’t believe in UFOs from outer space” and the only Alien I believe in is the true Christian who is a Citizen of Heaven and therefore is technically and Biblically, an Alien in this world.
I believe there are things that people see that they cannot identify.
I saw some sort of a flying bug that I couldn’t identify, so I guess it is (to me) a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object).
Years ago before I became enlightened, I looked into these things and even attended a UFO research meeting. Suffice to say, I didn’t go back.
I did once see a mystery cherry red light, in the midst of a sudden very heavy downpour of rain over the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia, that I could not explain. but today the short answer would be ‘’No I don’t believe in UFOs from outer space” and the only Alien I believe in is the true Christian who is a Citizen of Heaven and therefore is technically and Biblically, an Alien in this world.
Gary Bates on YouTube
Gary Bates, CEO of Creation Ministries, talks about his new movie, 'Alien Intrusion,' and why the UFO phenomenon is not what most people think it is. |
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ABOUT ABORIGINAL ROCK & CAVE ART
Australian Aboriginal people created artworks on rock surfaces. These include stencils, prints and drawings in rock shelters, and engravings in limestone caves. Rock shelter paintings are usually of small stick figures, other simple forms such as kangaroo and emu tracks, and sets of stripes or bars. Some art is rapidly being lost by weathering. I found a few hand prints and hand stencils near Paynes Find in Western Australia but now, 30 years later, they have weathered away completely. I also found big paintings of Lizards & Crocodiles in the Northern Territory that had been redone very crudely with modern white paint.
About Ringtail Possums
https://bluethumb.com.au/rexwoodmore Possum Posing by Rex Woodmore. |
The western ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis) are rare possums that face the threat of extinction due to a loss of habitat to human urbanization and falling prey to domestic & feral cats and foxes.
It is very different from the brushtail possum, which is bigger with longer fur and a brush tail. |
About Flying Foxes (BATS)
In Windjana Gorge National Park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia , there is a colony of Fruit Bats or Black Flying Foxes (Pteropus Scapulatus) noisily roosting in the trees along the banks of the Lennard river. The bats hanging in the trees remind one of dark coloured clothing hanging up to dry in the trees of some untidy campsites.
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The preferred food of flying-foxes is the blossom of eucalypts and some other native trees, and various bush fruits, like Moreton Bay Fig. The bats are beneficial to the trees because they act as pollinators and dispersers of their seeds. The great distances they can fly means they carry pollen and seeds far from the parent tree.
About Camels in Australia
The first camels (Camelus dromedaries) arrived in Australia in 1840 from the Canary Islands. It is estimated that 10,000 - 20,000 camels were imported between 1880 and 1907. The domestic camel population continued to expand from 1880 until the early 1920s but then declined steadily as motor vehicles began to be used more and more for freight haulage. Although unwanted camels were occasionally destroyed, many were turned out into the bush where they established feral populations.
About feral (wild) goats in Australia
Goats (Capra hircus) arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. During the 19th century, sailors released goats onto islands and some areas of the mainland for emergency food. Certain breeds were imported for their hair. More recently, goats have been used to keep plantation forests and inland pastoral land free of weeds. Feral herds developed as these domestic goats escaped, were abandoned or were deliberately released.
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Feral goats now occur across 28 per cent of Australia. They can be found in all states and territories and on some offshore islands,
but are most common in the rocky or hilly semi-arid areas of western New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland. There are at least 2.6 million feral goats in Australia. |
About Sharks at Coral Bay
Whale shark sightings are extremely common on the Ningaloo Reef in the months of mid April-June. A spotter plane communicates with boats as it spots the large shadow of a whale shark near the surface. Interactions are regulated by CALM (Conservation and Land Management), which limits the number of snorkelers in the water with a shark to a maximum of 10, forbids the use of flash photography and lists guidelines including how long a single interaction with a whale shark may last. Whale sharks are not the only sharks you can expect to see around Exmouth. Reef sharks, mainly white tip reef sharks, are regular sightings at many dive sites. The reef shark nursery is about a 20 minute walk from the Main Beach of Coral Bay in Western Australia. From October to March up to 200 reef sharks swim in the shallow waters.
About Bugs Changing Colour
Someone might ask: " If there are green bugs living on a brown log, those bugs are probably often eaten by birds since they are easy to spot. One day, a brown bug is born. The bird does not eat this bug, as it has trouble seeing it, and thus the brown bug has a longer life and more opportunity to mate and pass on its genes. It is likely that at least some of its offspring would inherit this trait. They would then go on to have heightened reproductive success. After several generations, all the bugs would be brown. So surely that demonstrates how given millions of years things change into something different ?"
My reaction : That is a bit like saying
''Given enough time a frog could turn into a Prince!”
There is no doubt that certain traits can be inherited. Species can and do, through natural selection, adapt to their surroundings. The story of a bug changing colour, while still remaining as a bug, is a great example of adaptation or sometimes referred to as Phenotypic or developmental plasticity. (Which simply means an organism's features can be molded, or influenced by its environment).
If, due to climatic conditions, the brown logs become covered in green moss, then no doubt the same species of bug would, to survive, revert back to green. However the bug, no matter what colour, remains a bug of the same species.
My personal belief and observation (especially in the field of Australian native flora) is that there are many variations within a species but a species does not change into another species.
Email Rex Woodmore: [email protected]
My reaction : That is a bit like saying
''Given enough time a frog could turn into a Prince!”
There is no doubt that certain traits can be inherited. Species can and do, through natural selection, adapt to their surroundings. The story of a bug changing colour, while still remaining as a bug, is a great example of adaptation or sometimes referred to as Phenotypic or developmental plasticity. (Which simply means an organism's features can be molded, or influenced by its environment).
If, due to climatic conditions, the brown logs become covered in green moss, then no doubt the same species of bug would, to survive, revert back to green. However the bug, no matter what colour, remains a bug of the same species.
My personal belief and observation (especially in the field of Australian native flora) is that there are many variations within a species but a species does not change into another species.
Email Rex Woodmore: [email protected]