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conversations.value: a title for a book about Australia, Tall, National with the genre: Science & Math, Nature & Ecology
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Wildlife of Australia'
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conversations.value: Wildlife of Australia
  Most skinks have shiny overlapping scales ideal for slinking through thick vegetation and burrowing through soil, but some of the largest skinks have rough dull scales. The Gidgee and Cunningham's Skinks have prickly scales on their tails, perfect for deterring prospecting predators. Sometimes skinks use their spiny scales to wedge themselves into safe hollows or crevices where poking paws are unable to dislodge them.
  Tails may be cylindrical, long and tapering or flattened top to bottom. These will break off in all but the large skinks but they do re-grow, albeit not perfectly. Sometimes the break is not complete. In such instances a second, or even a third, tail may grow from the break point.
  A skink's tongue is broad and rounded, not slender and forked as in snakes and goannas. Its eardrums are usually deeply embedded and may be suited more to picking up the vibrations of scurrying insects than to sound. The eyes are protected in several ways. Skinks that live in dry climates, where there is a danger of losing moisture from the surface of their eyes, have developed a fixed lens. Other skinks have movable lower eyelids that are either completely scaly or have built-in transparent 'windows', curved to cover the irises; this permits sight even when the eyelids are closed.
  An adult Cunningham's Skink (40cm/16in) basks with its offspring close to their rock-crevice shelter. This species belongs to a group that give birth to live young. Research on King's Skinks, a close relative of Cunningham's, has revealed that young may live under the protection of their parents for their first year or even longer.
  Some skinks lay eggs while others give birth to live young. Egg clutches consist of two or more pea-sized eggs in white, leathery shells. Sometimes females of the same species lay their eggs in communal nests. Usually within a few weeks the hatchlings, which may be only 2.5cm (1in) long, are born. They are independent immediately and able to forage for themselves. Bearing live young is common among some of Australia's larger skinks. While the rare and endangered Adelaide Pygmy Blue-tongue (16cm/6in) bears only one to four young, the Northern Blue-tongue (60cm/24in) may produce 25 in a litter.
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conversations.value: While adult mayflies are proficient fliers and make the most of their time to participate in mating swarms above water, adult stoneflies have delicate wings and are reluctant to fly. They feed on algae, lichen and rotting wood and mate on vegetation or stones close to water. Some alpine species live in and around dense mosses.
  Female mayflies and most female stoneflies drop their eggs into water, where they sink; some female stoneflies, however, struggle to the bottom of streams to lay their eggs.
  On warm sunny days, especially in coastal and tropical areas, damselflies and dragonflies dash through the air. Of the world's 5000 species, 300 are known from Australia and up to 40 per cent of these species may have been flying around Australia when it was still part of Gondwana.
  A Blue Skimmer Dragonfly rests beside its sloughed-off larval skin as its body elongates and its crinkled wings gradually expand. Once its body and wings have hardened in the air and transformation into a magnificent flying machine is complete, it will lift off in search of shelter among vegetation before taking to a life of aerial piracy and sexual gratification.
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conversations.value: They feed on algae, lichen and rotting wood and mate on vegetation or stones close to water. Some alpine species live in and around dense mosses.
  Female mayflies and most female stoneflies drop their eggs into water, where they sink; some female stoneflies, however, struggle to the bottom of streams to lay their eggs.
  On warm sunny days, especially in coastal and tropical areas, damselflies and dragonflies dash through the air. Of the world's 5000 species, 300 are known from Australia and up to 40 per cent of these species may have been flying around Australia when it was still part of Gondwana.
  A Blue Skimmer Dragonfly rests beside its sloughed-off larval skin as its body elongates and its crinkled wings gradually expand. Once its body and wings have hardened in the air and transformation into a magnificent flying machine is complete, it will lift off in search of shelter among vegetation before taking to a life of aerial piracy and sexual gratification.
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conversations.value: Short-eared Brushtail Possum, Trichosurus caninus, family Phalangeridae Common Spotted Cuscus, Spilocuscus maculatus, family Phalangeridae
  Queensland Lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, family Ceratodontidae, sub-class Sarcopterygii, order Dipnoi
  Barramundi/Giant Perch/Barra/Silver Barramundi/Palmer Perch/Sea Bass, Lates calcarifer, family Centropomidae
  Freshwater snails, families Lymnaeidae, Thiaridae, Viviparidae, Hydrobiidae, Planorbidae, Ancylidae (and Physidae, introduced)