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Hi all. When I introduced mysef months ago (half a year!) I mentioned that I had acquired a giant rainforest mantid. She is gorgeous, but I let her go in the local Monsoon Forest recently. She was a fully mature female and desperately seeking a sperm donor and light snack. I tried hard but...

Yes they are shockers. Most of our animals have no defence against their "bufotoxins" except one, the keelback snake. It's aquatic and only mildly venemous but eats cane toads with impunity. It is reckoned that these guys ate toads in Gondwanan times when Australia was joined to Africa, South...

Very nice. Are gerberas their usual haunt?

G'day all I am wondering if anyone on the forum has a working knowledge of Northern Territory (Aust) Top End mantid species? I live in Darwin but travel to all points in the Top End with my work. Mantid and phasmid records are few here but everyone sees and meets them regularly. They're just...

The people in Arnhem Land call the toads "rubbish frogs". They dont eat frogs but do use them as bait for barramundi and other food fish but the fish wont touch these little horrors. Even the crocodiles die if they try to eat them. Hey, I just went out and bought a second hand TV stand to...

Actually goanna has always been a favourite food with the local people but their populations have crashed since cane toads invaded the Top End a few years ago. Frill necked lizards have also become rare as have all the local animals that have frogs as a natural part of their diet. Our latest...

G'day all I'm Steve from Darwin, just joined today. I'm a 53yo (fossil) and I lecture in Conservation & Land Managent at a tertiary instutue for Indigenous people in the Northern Territory. I train Indigenous Ranger Groups across the Top End of the Northern Territory and see a lot of...