Sunday, April 30, 2006

Kössi & Friends

Bilder tagna i centrala Sydney

Cockatoo










Grey-headed Flying Fox

The Grey-headed Flying-fox is one of the largest bats in Australia with a wingspan of over 1 m.
Groups known as 'camps' can be made up of many thousands of animals.






St Andrew's Cross
A friendly garden spider




Parken sett från Sydney Tower



Wildlife Park











SOUTHERN CASSOWARY

It lives to about 50 years of age. Despite being a bird, the Cassowary is Australia’s largest land animal. It normally weighs about 60kg, but the heaviest recorded was 83kg.














Wombat







Inland Taipan
This is the most venomous snake in the world. They reach up to 2.8 meters in length. "the Fierce Snake produces drop for drop the most toxic venom in the world! ... one bite possesses enough punch to drop 100 full grown men"





Deadliest of them all, Snake Plissken.




Short-beaked Echidna