How Marsupials adapt to the arid Australian Environment Introduction The increasing aridity of the Australian continent over the past 20 million years has favoured organisms that could adapt to dry conditions. Marsupials have developed a variety of behavioural‚ physiological and morphological adaptations to survive in these arid conditions with little or no food and free water for extended periods of time. Marsupials living in Australia’s hot arid environment must deal with exposure
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released. William O. Douglas wrote Majority Opinion. Justices for the Court (name the justices that were in favor of the ruling). [ Photo of Justices – use Oyez‚ Indicate Chief Justice] E. Warren W. Douglas T. Clark J. Harlan W. Brennan B. White A. Goldberg (Chief Justice) Justices dissenting (name the justices that were against the ruling). [ Photo of Justices – use Oyez‚ Indicate Chief Justice] H. Black P. Stewart Dissenting opinion (why
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Karen Miller October 4‚ 2012 Daniel Ellsberg‚ was the person who released the Pentagon Papers to the public because the United States involvement of the Vietnam War and also there were many secrets that government officials were not allowing the public to know. Ellsberg’s career began when he entered the marines in 1954 and he started to deliver lectures at Harvard as a junior member board; during that particular time Henry Kissinger took notice to Ellsberg rational lectures. Ellsberg soon began
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The Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has generated a considerable amount of debate and controversy surrounding the question: what is considered “cruel and unusual punishment.” The important issue that develops from this amendment is whether or not the death penalty is constitutional. Over the decades‚ the Supreme Court fails to completely confront the issue by refusing to address any issue that falls outside of the case in question. As a result‚ today’s court is left with many specific instances
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the lineage that contains Wombats and Koalas‚ the Vombatiform line. Diprotodon At 3.8 metres long and 1.7 metres tall at the shoulder‚ the Diprotodon was the largest Australian marsupial known. The sub family Diprotodontinae which included the Diprotodon Optatum‚ lived between 5.3 million years ago to 11‚700 years ago. The Diprotodon may have evolved from the Plicene Diprotodontine Euryzygma throughout the late Pliocene. Much like its closest living relatives the Wombat and Koala‚ the Diprotodon
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watermelon and the wombat next to each other was to symbolize the clash between nature and culture. The wombat’s limpness and quietly shocking destruction of domestic order has been created by drew to make the audience aware of how senseless Australia has become to road kill. Animals like wombats‚ fruit bats‚ bandicoots and galahs aren’t even the pinnacle of how environmentally mortifying the littering of roadside animals is in Australia. Together‚ both the Melon and the wombat are seen as two
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how alike they are due to individual variations; e.g few available specimens and age related variations. Diprotodon Optatum Diprotodon optatum also known as the giant wombat was the largest marsupial know. The oldest fossils of the giant wombat are from the plicoene deposit in Fishermans Cliff‚ New South Wales. The Giant wombat became extinct 250‚000 years ago. Exact reasons for the extinction of Diprotodon remain unclear. It seems to have co-existed with Aboriginal people for over 20‚000 years
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QUESTION 17.11 PLATYPUS LTD – WOMBAT LTD 75% Platypus Ltd Wombat Ltd Platypus Ltd 75% NCI 25% A: PARTIAL GOODWILL METHOD Acquisition analysis At 1 July 2005: Net fair value of identifiable assets and liabilities of Wombat Ltd Net fair value acquired Consideration transferred Goodwill = = = = = = ($20 000 + $2 000 + $10 000) (equity) + $10 000 (1 – 30%)(machinery) + $4 000 (1 – 30%) (inventory) - $2 000 (1 – 30%) (receivables) $40 400 75% x $40 400 $30 300
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Briar Rose Wombat 1. He uses Similes - "Plunging like red flood water" This gives the effect of the wombat plunging down at a very fast speed. 2. He uses Metaphors - "Ha there! Old pig‚ old bear‚ old bristly and gingery" This gives the effect that he thinks he is a good old friend with the wombat. 3. Onomatopoeia - Thumps‚ Trembling‚ Thud This is used to make more of your senses being used when reading the poem 4. Repetition - "Old pig‚ old bear‚ old bristly
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Those police‚ they’re all the same. Parcels of big ugly fat-necked‚ wombat-headed‚ big-bellied‚ magpie-legged‚ narrow-hipped idiots known as Officers of Justice or Victorian police. And that Fitzpatrick‚ he’s the worst of the lot. A real bludger to the core. I was out in Wangaratta when I heard of the incident. By the time I reached Greta‚ Fitzpatrick was gone. The house looked as if a willy-willy had swept through it; the stools were on the ground‚ the bookshelf had toppled over and the contents
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