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Threat to the existence koala population to encourage Australia to do some research efforts to prevent the recording of all communications with the animals through the phone. Researchers will install a number of mobile phone in the trees where koala habitat.

Like This news24.com, Thursday (27/11/2008), the researchers install monitoring equipment in a number of koalas in St Bees Island, northeast Australia. Researchers use the tools that connect with satellites to monitor the behavior of koalas and is used for voice phone that will light every 30 minutes, and able to record all communication koalas for two minutes.

Mobile-phone installed in the trees that use batteries and said the sun and each recording can connect and download directly on the computer of the University of Queensland in Brisbane.

“Koalas are able to communicate from a short-range voice, clear voice to long for one minute, the average communication takes place in the middle of the night, so we need tools to monitor their communications,” said researcher Bill Ellis.

Ellis said, previous studies revealed the form of voice communication by male koalas are used to mark his territory and is used to entrap female koalas married during the season.

“During the season marry, the male is seen as active in the movement seemed attentive but slow,” said Ellis.

Ellis added, research and sound and behavior of koalas can help to know the behavior of koalas, so if at any time habitat of Australia’s pride is threatened, the determination of the location of evacuation koalas can be easily determined in accordance with the ‘desire’ koalas, the koalas. Koala population is increasingly threatened by urban development that is increasingly rapidly.

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If we observe carefully, there are some things that can distinguish high snake’s venomous and low snake’s venomous. Some characteristics under the general guidance that can be used, although not exactly show levels of venom.

a. Low snake’s venomous

  • Rapid movement, fear the enemy, aggressive
  • Active in the daytime
  • Kill luck with the wind
  • Oval-shaped head (such as eggs)
  • Does not have a canine
  • Not death poison
  • After a bite and then flee

b. High snake’s venomous

  • Movement slow, quiet, full of confidence
  • Activity at night (nocturnal)
  • Murder can be injected with luck
  • The shape of the head triangle
  • Having a canine, death poison
  • Cannibal
  • After a bite, not fading from the place

c. Exceptions

The following characteristics of snakes that are not in accordance with the provisions :

Poisonous high, but the head-shaped oval (round eggs), aggressive, out day and night:

  1. King Cobra Snake - Ophiophagus Hannah, the head oval, aggressive, out day and night
  2. Naja Naja Cobra Snake - sputratix, poisonous high, oval head, quiet movement
  3. Weling Snake - Bungarus candidus, oval head, noxious high
  4. Welang Snake - Bungarus fasciatus, oval head, quiet movement, noxious high
  5. Picung Snake / pudak Chrysanthemum - highly venomous, oval head, nimble movement, day out.
  6. All types of Sea Snakes, poisonous, slow movement in the sand and beach
  7. All types of Phyton snakes and boa, snakes are not poisonous, looking for food at night.

A crocodile in the Great Barrier Reef, which is one of the world cultural heritages in the Magnetic Island, Queensland, eventually die. However, that the Queensland Environmental Protection surprise, the crocodile appeared to die as a result of too many swallowed plastic.

As spoke, Sunday (2 / 11), presumably this crocodile swallowed plastic bags that make stomach can no longer function digested food. This crocodile is arrested because the area is close to Magnetic Island, which is a tourist destination that wants to see the beautiful coral reef, which is famous.

When in maintenance to be returned to its habitat in the north, the crocodile was dead. After doing surgical operation, found 25 plastic bags in stomach of crocodile. Also found wine cooler bags and rubber.

The crocodile including the powerful can survive with so much plastic in its stomach because there are not any animals can survive with so much plastic in its stomach. The question is, how crocodile along this 3.5-meter can be swallowed so much plastic. Because there is still waste plastic dispose.