There are a little more than 400 known species of reptile on Madagascar.
More than 90% of them are endemic; the island sometimes described as “the eighth continent” is their only home.
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Less than 100 metres distant is the mostly-dreary, seemingly never-ending sprawl of greater Adelaide’s southern suburbs.
Down here, however, the beach is still beautiful, and at low tide one can walk straight onto a reef where non-human life is abundantly evident.
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To an Australian, peacocks are fabulously “exotic”, but this post’s peacocks were in their own land, where they are an “everyday” sight.
Indian peafowl live in most of the Indian subcontinent’s non-alpine regions.
So, many an Indian human pays them little attention.
To most non-Australians, a kangaroo is a fabulously exotic creature, but many Australians are not the least excited by ‘roos.
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Many of us do not Believe.
A non-Believer, however, can still believe in the power of particular places here on terra firma – earthly “paradises” which inspire us, delight us, even heal us.
One uncanny song is named for a place that really did have the same name as the song which so vividly evoked it, and mourned its destruction: Paradise.
We have just lost its author.
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Not long ago – within my own 65 years, I think – the ground on which I stood at 12.30 pm on March 17, 2019 – would not have been visible, much less fetchingly clad in lichens, mosses, et al…
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They were ducks, not geese, they were not “in chevron flight”, and they were almost certainly not beginning a seasonal migration.
Nonetheless, a certain longtime-favourite Joni Mitchell song leapt into my head.
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Pyramid-like peaks are one of the signature features of the mountain ranges that punctuate the Tibetan Plateau.
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One day, when the global pandemic is over, I’ll post a sequence of photos that show how this brief but intense example of “pelican yoga” unfolded.
It occurred during the last half hour of sunlight, yesterday, 03 April, at Lake Monger, just minutes away from Perth’s very centre, which is an almost-dead centre, now.
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The photo (copyright Doug Spencer) was taken, in a state of astonishment, this week, near Subiaco Railway Station, Western Australia.
A suitable caption: Do Not Believe Your Eyes!
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