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Scientific discoveries regarding a wide variety of subjects in the field of natural history are reported, focusing on the plant and animal life of Australia but also dealing with such life in Europe, South America, and Africa. Topics include the evolution of human beings after the Neanderthals, the home ranges of sleepy lizards, the parenting habits of penguins, cannibalistic habits of scorpions, the mating habits of Wasp Moths, and the possibility that the New Zealand kiwi may actually be Australian.
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2001
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First words: let's stick together
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Animal behaviour and communications are examined in order to find how the faculty of language in the narrow human sense evolved. According to William Noble, University of New England, language is a form of symbolic communication that has its root in behavioural evolution, rather than biological determinism.
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2004
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Fat-bellied sex for food
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This article examines the mating behavior of the dance fly family (Empididae). The females of the species have developed specialized traits to inflate their bellies with air and thus attract males.
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2001
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