Essays Tagged: "Marsupial"
The Cooking Methods of the Australian Aborigines including Examples
change flavours or heat. The aborigines used hot stones to fry Bogong moths, banks of coals to cook marsupial rodents, larger shaped hearths for baking cakes, cooked tubers and leached toxins from var ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Information on the best known marsupials - the koala and the kangaroo
The Koala and the Kangaroo are the best know marsupials, meaning they have a pouch in which they carry their young.Koalas' have thick wooly fur t ... et Chlamydia, as they become stressed by the loss of their homes.The Kangaroo is the biggest of the marsupials. They can be found in Australia, New Guineau and some nearby islands. They live mainly in ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
The Koala site: http://www.thekoala.com/koala
The KoalaWhat is a koala?The koala is a small bear-like, tree-dwelling, herbivorous marsupial which averages about 9kg (20lb) in weight. It's fur is thick and usually ash grey with a t ... Koalas also communicate by marking their trees with their scent.BreedingThe main characteristics of marsupials which differentiate them from other mammals is that they give birth to immature young whi ... mammals is that they give birth to immature young which then develop further in a pouch. The word 'marsupial' comes from the Latin word marsupium, meaning 'pouch.' Most, but not all marsupials have a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
Humans And Fauna In Australia
lf into Wellington Cave (Horton, 1980). The projection turned out to be the bone of a giant extinct marsupial. It was to be the first discovery of a great range of giant marsupials. Were these animals ... 990). A typical mammalian megafaunal community consisted of a variety of forms, such as: Zaglossus; Marsupial Lion Thylacoleo; giant wombats Phascolonus; long-beaked echidnas; the Marsupial Tapir (Pal ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
Tasmanian Tiger Report
iger" or the "Tasmanian Wolf" bares no genetic resemblance to the wolf or tiger species. This famed marsupial was mostly named the "Tasmanian Tiger" as its stripes bore the same resemblance to a tiger ... m from the tip of the shoulder, and it weighed approximately 30kg. This animal was also the largest marsupial in Australia.The Thylacine had a large heavy tail (up to 120cm), which was used as a balan ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
An essay on Australia's unique flora and fauna
as the climate becomes increasingly dry,grasslands and shrubs begin to dominate.Most of the world's marsupials are found inAustralia. They include the bandicoot, koala,kangaroo, wallaby, wombat and th ... nd inAustralia. They include the bandicoot, koala,kangaroo, wallaby, wombat and the Tasmaniandevil. Marsupials have pouches in which theysuckle and carry their young. Marsupial babiesare born in a tin ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Organism Physiology of the Sugar Glider
enced by these changes and has evolved accordingly.According to Booth (2003) "sugar gliders (Order: Marsupialia; family: Phalangeridae; species: Petaurus breviceps) are small arboreal marsupials that ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology