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  HD - Giant Earth Worms

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Digaster longmani] [taxonomy:family=Megascolecidae] The video includes a worm about 1 metre long, unearthed by an excavator digging a hole for an in-ground water tank. For some reason, the worms no longer regularly emerge from their flo

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  HD - Death Adder

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Acanthophis antarcticus] [taxonomy:family=Elapidae] This is one of a number of potentially deadly venomous snakes which occur on the mountain, but are rarely encountered.

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  HD - Yellow Carabeen Tree

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Slonea woollsii] [taxonomy:family=Elaeocarpaceae] These large rainforest trees have plate roots which can be seven to eight meters high and more than two meters broad at the base.

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  HD - Green Tree Frog

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Litoria caerulea] [taxonomy:family=Hylidae] The frog is native to northern and eastern Australia and southern PNG, with introduced populations in New Zealand and the United States. This individual appears to pre-date the cobwebs on the

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  HD - Moreton Bay Fig Tree

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Ficus macrophylla] [taxonomy:family=Moraceae] If this were the Leaning Tower of Pisa, it would be a heap of rubble on the ground. Alas, the up to 818 mm rainfall of ex-tropical cyclone Oswald, from 25 to 29 January 2013, uprooted perhap

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  HD - Tiger Snake

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Notechis scutatus] [taxonomy:family=Elapidae] The snake’s venom is among the world’s most potent. Although the snake occurs in Queensland, there was some doubt as to whether this included the mountain. A 2009 night time sighting in MacD

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  HD - False Garden Mantis

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Pseudomantis albofimbriata] [taxonomy:family=Mantidae] This is one of the most common species of mantis in Australia. Females reach a length of 70 mm, males, 50 mm. The mantis was filmed on a large tree in the middle of a traffic island

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  HD - Queensland Bottle Tree

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Brachychiton rupestris] [taxonomy:family=Malvaceae] This striking Queensland native is endemic beyond the Great Dividing Range in central and western areas south of the Tropic of Capricorn. The trunk, used for water storage, can swell t

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  HD - Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Calyptorhynchus funereus] [taxonomy:family=Cacatuidae] A large bird with a powerful beak, useful for extracting wood boring grubs which form part of its diet. The species ranges from central Queensland to southeastern South Australia an

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  HD - Blue-tongue Lizard

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Tiliqua scincoides] [taxonomy:family=Scincidae] A large skink which can attain a length of 600 mm and is common in northern and eastern Australia. The lizard was being harassed by magpies who evidently perceived it as a threat.

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  HD - Impatiens Hawk Moth Caterpillar

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Theretra oldenlandiae] [taxonomy:family=Sphingidae] A large and colourful caterpillar of a large brown moth which occurs from India to Japan to Australia via countries in between.

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  HD - Titan Stick Insect

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  [taxonomy:binomial=Acrophylla titan] [taxonomy:family=Phasmatidae] The Titan is Australia’s longest insect. Females can grow to 300 mm. This specimen is nowhere near as large. Stick Insects usually inhabit the rainforest canopy.