This Emperor Gum Moth landed on my car the other day. We caught it and brought it inside to identify it. It's huge, biggest moth I've ever seen outside of a tropical butterfly house. Australian species originally, either got blown here or caterpillars came in on imported wood, but they're not too harmful.
Because giant spiders roam the streets, crushing houses beneath their huge disgusting feet.
lol.
I also live in a countryside of New Zealand (though I'm not a kiwi but my hubby is) and we do get a lot of NZ native birds, weta, hedgehogs, morporks, possums, etc in our property. One of our regular visitors is a wild rabbit (we call it Warren), who visits our pet bunny Chester. I have a photo of the rabbit but I don't know how to post it.
I woke up early yesterday morning (~6am) to find a couple of dozen Eastern grey kangaroos near the house. They were all spread out grazing, and because they're quite shy I only managed to snap a few before they hopped away.
This thread's great because animal's are better than useless smelly humans. Ima see if i've any cool pictures kicking about, i'm loathe to post the one of the dog sleeping in the newspaper rack
There were four baby ducks that were adopted by pretty much the entire town when someone (who was never caught, unfortunately) beat their mother to death with a rock.
Here's an echidna I saw when I was back in Australia last week. It crossed the road just as we were driving past. Unfortunately he was scared and wouldn't show his beautiful little face, so all I got is a crappy camera-phone pic of a breathing ball of spikes!
This is what they look like when not in defence mode.
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Here's a Fantail fluttering around the front lawn this morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVWw5hafDyQ
No. Everyone knows they're just a myth. You've obviously been listening to human tales too much.
lol.
I also live in a countryside of New Zealand (though I'm not a kiwi but my hubby is) and we do get a lot of NZ native birds, weta, hedgehogs, morporks, possums, etc in our property. One of our regular visitors is a wild rabbit (we call it Warren), who visits our pet bunny Chester. I have a photo of the rabbit but I don't know how to post it.
Alternately, sign up at photobucket.com or flickr.com or the like and upload the image there, and grab the embed code that starts with
It's a Yellow Slug, introduced to New Zealand from Europe.
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These two were snacking on a sapling in the front yard.
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This thread's great because animal's are better than useless smelly humans. Ima see if i've any cool pictures kicking about, i'm loathe to post the one of the dog sleeping in the newspaper rack
Here they are grown up.
This is what they look like when not in defence mode.