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Freckled Monitor Flexible Toes Equipped With Long, Thick Curved Claws Which Swivel And Are Equipped With A Locking Mechanism To Support Their Entire Weight With Just One Claw Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor The Scale Patterns With Varying Oscillations, Spots And Bands Over The Body Surfaces Allow It To Blend In With Its Surroundings & Shaded Tree Trunks When Escaping Detection Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Actively Searches For Prey By Probing And Digging, Possibly Using Its Chemosensory System For Vomerolfaction Or Auditory Cues For Prey Localization Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis After Visually Detecting Any Arthropod Movement It Uses Its Claws & Muzzle To Dig After Fleeing Or Burrowing Prey Urban Darwin 01
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis After Visually Detecting Any Arthropod Movement It Uses Its Claws & Muzzle To Dig After Fleeing Or Burrowing Prey Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Has An Exquisite Arrangement Of Scales And Pigment Patterns Produced By Non-Overlapping Type Scales Around It Head Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Moving Slowly & Silently While Foraging Through A Maze Of Fallen Branchlets & Leaves As The Rainy Season Moves Into Full Swing Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Moving Slowly & Silently While Foraging Through A Maze Of Fallen Branchlets & Leaves Keeping In The Shade As Much As Possible Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Moving Slowly & Silently While Foraging Through A Maze Of Fallen Branchlets As It Circles Through The Vegetation With Bare Soil Under Shady Plants Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Rarely Used Its Tongue In Vomerolfaction To Locate Prey But Possibly Used Auditory Localization Instead Urban Darwin 01
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Rarely Used Its Tongue In Vomerolfaction To Locate Prey But Possibly Used Auditory Localization Instead Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Seemed To Use Visual Cues Rather Than A Chemosensory System So Its Tongue & Jaw Prehension Are Used To Grab Its Prey Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Skin Plays Important Roles In Camouflage, Communication, Self-Cleaning, Mitigation Of Water Loss And Protection From Physical Damage Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Species That Climb Well Tend To Have Flexible Toes Equipped With Long, Very Thick, Sharp, Curved Claws Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis The Eyes On The Side Of The Head With Eyeballs Unable To Rotate In The Socket Means It Must Move The Entire Head In Order To Look Round Urban Darwn
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Using Its Claws For Probing And Digging In The Leaf Litter Possibly Disturbing Arthropods Which It Will Consume Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Varanidae Massive Claws Can Provide Support Both On Thin Branches And On Vertical Surfaces Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis Variation In Skin Topography Of Scale Size And Shape Might Indicate The Diversity Of Tasks & Function The Specific Parts Of The Skin Must Perform Urban Darwin
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Freckled Monitor Varanus tristis orientalis With Overlapping Scales On Its Back Which Are The More Common Scale Type Urban Darwin
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Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis Cisticolidae Non-breeding Male Or Female Checking Out The Fairywren Invasion Into Its Territory Shoal Bay 01
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Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis Cisticolidae Non-breeding Male Or Female Checking Out The Fairywren Invasion Into Its Territory Shoal Bay
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Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis Cisticolidae Non-breeding Male Or Female Its Territory Being Destroyed By New Housing Developments Shoal Bay
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Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis Cisticolidae Relaxed & Prunng In The Hot Tropical Morning Shoal Bay
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Golden-headed Cisticola Females & Non-Breeding Males With Heavily Streaked Black Upper Parts, Golden-Buff Rump & Nape With Underparts Cream With Buff Tints, Black Wings Edged Buff Shoal Bay
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Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris Scolopacidae Foraging On Incoming High Tide, Probing Or Picking Up Food By Sight Possibly Crustaceans As The Water Covers The Sand Shoal Bay
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Great Knot Hopefully Not Affected By Increasing Toxicities Of Food Sources Associated With Pesticide Use On Adjacent Coastal Grasslands Carried By Rainwater Runoff To The Shoreline Shoal Bay 01
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Great Knot Hopefully Not Affected By Increasing Toxicities Of Food Sources Associated With Pesticide Use On Adjacent Coastal Grasslands Carried By Rainwater Runoff To The Shoreline Shoal Bay
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Heliconia psittacorum Aggregated In Inflorescences, From Erect Peduncles, With Lateral Branches Subtended By An Orange Cincinnal Bract Concealing The Floral Bracts Urban Darwin 02