Can Horses really Dance?

http://www.lipizzaner.com/home.asp

Good free maps!

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/geography.htm

I just love this interacive map of Europe! See http://www.yourchildlearns.com/europe_map.htm

Voting for Women!

Does not mean you should unthinkingly vote for Gillard, see  one reason why not?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDE-oQ1OK48

Barking Owls:

Barking Owls: by Erica

Barking owls are unique to Australia and some parts of Papua New Guinea.

Barking Owls can twist their heads almost right around (270 degrees!)  They are sight owls (Ninox Genus) as opposed to hearing owls (Tyto Genus) so they have excellent eye sight and usually hunt at dawn and dusk. Their eyes are fixed unlike humans which is why they have to be able to twist their heads around.

Silent flight is an ability well used when flying around to look for prey. The trailing edge of all of this bird's feathers are actually softened to reduce the noise of air rushing over the feather whilst it is on the hunt. They usually eat anything from rodents though to possums and occasionally they even eat birds.

The Barking owls only have one mate in their life time. Their babies hatch at 38 days leave the nest at 7 weeks old.

You may be wondering why barking owls have such a strange name? Their noise sounds like a dog barking. It can even growl. It is extremely difficult to tell the difference between the Barking owl and a dog. Barking owls also scream and can sound like a woman or child in great pain, although this scream is seldom heard.
The myth of the Bunyip told to us by Aboriginals is said to have it origins with the scary noises a Barking Owl can make at night.

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."

I love this Jim Elliot quote, don't you? 
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/faq/20.htm

Green Tree Pythons:

Green Tree Pythons: by Emma


Green Tree Pythons eat small mammals like mice, they also eat birds, lizards and frogs. These pythons are emerald green with a yellow belly. Their babies are bright yellow or sometimes orange. After laying the eggs the mother will sit on her eggs to keep them the right temperature. The end of their tail is brownish and they pretend that it is a wriggling worm, so they can lure animals for catching and eating.


Green Tree Pythons have teeth but are not poisonous. They use their teeth to grab their prey. They are found in Eastern Cape York Peninsula in far North Queensland, so I have not seen a Green Tree Python; I have seen a Brown snake and have touched a python at the Ipswich Animal Park. I love snakes and hate princesses and pink stuff.

What is it?

A Green Tree Frog:!

Green Tree frogs climb smooth trees with the suckers on their feet and the skin on their bellies. They are usually bright green but if they are cross they can go khaki green. This frog was sick so he is not as bright as they usually are. They eat spiders, crickets, lizards, cockroaches and sometimes other frogs.They can sometimes eat small mice in captivity.They live in the eastern and northern parts of Australia in cool damp places. They are notorious for liking the inside rim of toilet bowls

( When we lived in the country we were told that people put a steel pot cleaners in the water pipes so they could not come inside. One church we went to had an outside toilet and you always had to check the toilet before you sat. I remember Erica screaming so loudly that the whole church heard her and guessed she had met a frog!)

By Timothy and Mommy