Australian pictures

[Australia]

A mural depicting a Greek fishing village on the wall of a fish market building in Sydney.

[Sheelagh Blanckenberg]

What a gorgeous mural! We need more pictures like this painted on certain buildings, road unerpasses etc in order to hide or prevent asinine graffiti or tag 'artists'.

[Migration Help]

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~adc2010/koala.jpg

[downundervisa]

Definitely cute, but one of the dumbest animals on earth. They spend 20 hours a day sleeping, and the rest of the time eating or sitting around. Such activity doesn't take great brain-power. Apparently they're the only animal on earth with a brain that doesn't fit it's skull. 40% of it's skull-space is flluid!

[Migration Help]

Apparently they're the only animal on earth with a brain that doesn't fit it's skull. 40% of it's skull-space is flluid!

Has anyone studied a politician's brain?

MH

[Migration Help]

He is slightly larger than a domestic cat, has reddish-brown fur, and a gorgeous little face, but unfortunately he can't be picked up and cuddled.

Born two weeks before Christmas, Taronga Zoo's youngest red panda has just started venturing out of his maternal nest box to explore the outside world.


http://images.smh.com.au/2011/04/08/2295528/red-panda-420x0.jpg

Named Seba, the Nepalese word for reward, the panda is the 45th to be born at the zoo since 1977.

Red pandas are listed as a vulnerable species, with less than 10,000 mature individuals existing in the wild.

The species live across the Himalayan mountains and foothills of northern India, China, Nepal, India and Bhutan.

They are threatened due to illegal hunting and deforestation of their natural habitat.

MH