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Was haben die Neulinge im Gondwanaland zu bieten? Rosenkäfer ihre Größe und vermeintliche Lackierung, die Tarantel, ihre Schnelligkeit und lauter Vorurteile. Die lösen wir gern auf.

The only mistake Shane Jones made in cancelling the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary was he did it on a Thursday, and as a result the news would have been missed by many.  We do of course already have a Kermadec marine reserve with a 12 nautical mile radius around its various islands, but the one he cancelled would have made it 620 000 square kilometres.   It would have taken 15 % of our exclusive economic zone and cut it off to all commercial activity, and a country that is broke can make no such grandiose moves.  I am sure the same people who would rather have a hectors dolphin untroubled by a yacht than a commercially successful event piling millions into the local economy will not be happy with Shane.  They will be the same people who involved themselves in the consent process that NZ Salmon went through for their operation in the Cook Strait that cost them millions and took nine ridiculously long years.  Shane Jones is worth watching in the Parliament at Question Time by the way, the Greens tie themselves in knots asking him about mining, and fossil fuels, and drilling, and scraping, and sifting, and he stands up answering their questions with an open honest assessment of the modern realities of our economy.  As much as we would all like to return to Gondwanaland without a tourist, or grader, or road or drill, none of it is real.  We like to turn lights on, drive cars, make stuff, sell stuff, and enjoy the outworkings of the 21st century.  He also delivers the message with a theatrical and verbal flourish I am sure is designed to enrage those asking the questions.  A big reason economically, socially, and indeed morally we are where we are, why there is such a malaise, such a stalling of progress, and a lack of entrepreneurial spirit, and zest to get on with stuff, is we have lost what Shane Jones has: zeal, and vigour, and bluntness.  Our niceness and desire to offend no one has made us apologists.  And apologists, instead of saying no, say maybe, and stall, and discuss, and set up a committee, then stall some more.  No one is to be offended, and worse the woke causes of the day which include not advancing economically because it will dent hurt or kill something are to be given lip service even if we don't believe a word of it, heaven forbid we should stand out or stand up for something.  Shane never got that memo, and for that we can be eternally grateful. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWMARCH 18TH, 2024FOREST PROTECTION AND COP 28 GUESTS;MARK GRAHAM - Ecologist in the Gondwanaland forests of Northern NSW- Great Koala National Park areaDORO BABECK - Bob Brown Foundation organiser of the March in March AT COP28 on Transforming the food system KIRTANA CHANDRASEKERERKELLY DENT, ARNOLD PADILLA 

Focusing on the climate crisis, Author Susan Murphy joins Raghu to talk about her new book, A Fire Runs Through All Things.Susan Murphy and Raghu discuss:Susan's background and growing up in touch with the earthApplying the fierce love and protection of parenthood to the earthSusan's journey through meditation to zen practiceThe realities of the climate crisis and forest firesOur tendency to ignore and reject discomfortLessons from indigenous eldersA mindfulness practice to connect with the earthSocial action through heartful connectionHow humility and not knowing leaves room for creative solutions“The experience of it, basically it was like a graveyard spread out over enormous swaths of land and burnt hills. All to say is, this is part of our plight, I think, in terms of waking up.” – Raghu MarkusAbout Susan Murphy:Susan Murphy is an Australian Zen teacher whose passionate feeling of kinship with the natural world began dueing her early childhood years living near the Great Barrier Reef and the Gondwanaland rainforest. A successful filmmaker, radio producer, and writer, she received dharma transmission from Ross Bolleter and John Tarrant in 2001. She leads regular retreats around Australia and teaches an Australia-wide sangha that extends internationally online. She is the author of Upside-Down Zen, Minding the Earth Mending the World, Red Thread Zen, and most recently, A Fire Runs Through All Things.“The earth is inviting us to think along with her, or it. That suffering is mutual. The earth is suffering and our suffering, our agreeing to suffer with it, is the earth's care for us. It will wake us up.” – Susan MurphySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Obwohl die Zwergflusspferde im Gondwanaland ein gemütliches Zuhause haben, will es mit der Zucht nicht mehr klappen. Schade, denn ihre Kleinen sollen der Gipfel der Niedlichkeit sein - schwört Tierpfleger Michael Ernst.

Welcome to THE NEXT 5 MINUTES, a five-episode series which follows the fortunes of four memorable characters whose dark and sometimes comical stories connect in strange ways in the dystopian Gondwanaland (the nation formerly known as Australia) of the near future.The series launches Wednesday, January 24, 2024.Follow us on Instagram @earcandypresents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The next lesson in language and definitions: Native – Endemic – Beneficial – Pest  Remember: a Native organism is firmly established in NZ; it's origin could be from overseas (or an ancient continent like Gondwanaland), but it got here, somehow, on its own accord (flying, drifting on logs, floating in the air, etc) without assistance from humans (luggage, commercial goods, planes, boats, smuggled, imported, etc). When I work with Teachers (and kids) at schools (Mazda's Treemendous Education Program; Blake Inspire; Field-Based STEM), I often analyse this definition of native species. So: I ask the question: “What is the latest or newest native bird of prey in New Zealand?”  Examples: Silvereyes (white-eyes, Wax-eyes) established here in the 1830s. The first recorded nesting/breeding took place in 1832. Not many people know that, especially since these birds are very numerous in Aotearoa.  The Māori name is “Tauhou”, which means stranger or new-comer  This sentinel tree can tell an enormous number of stories – a serious curriculum full of nature knowledge. LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

OK… as promised, last week...  Language and definitions: Native – Endemic – Beneficial – Pest  A NATIVE organism is firmly established in NZ; it's origin could be from overseas (or an ancient continent like Gondwanaland), but it got here, somehow, on its own accord (flying, drifting on logs, floating in the air, etc) without assistance from humans (luggage, commercial goods, planes, boats, smuggled, imported, etc)  ENDEMIC means it naturally occurs only in New Zealand, nowhere else, unless it has been introduced there. It is therefore a Native organism that is really special as it has been part of our ecosystems for many many years (millions of years)  Because our Native and Endemic organisms are important contributors to our ecosystem, they are BENEFICIAL to a lot of other species that live here – pollen-providers, pollinators, nectar manufacturers, food source, etc etc  A PEST is often and introduced species (either by accident or stupidity) that has a negative impact on our ecosystems or… our ABILITY to grow crops/fruit/food; a PEST can also be a species that got here on its own accord through unfortunate migration  Flowers right now and can be absolutely stunning!  It naturally occurs from Cape Reinga (Te Paki) all the way down to line from Taranaki to Mahia Peninsula. So… it is an ENDEMIC plant species  It doesn't like frost very much at all, but when you plant it in a nice location, protected from the frost you'll find it'll thrive all the way down the South Island.  It grows well on the Port Hills, where it is a fabulous nectar source for native birds and native bees, moths and butterflies – I suppose you could call it beneficial  You can see it is a close relative of the famous endemic relative Metrosideros excelsa aka Pohutukawa. (Similar distribution area in NZ)  The carmine rātā is normally a “climbing rātā”, winding its stem around a tree trunk to get to the top where light levels are higher and photosynthesis is enhanced.  But when you take semi-hardwood cuttings from this rata, it will form as a shrub and it won't climb. Most carmine rātā you can buy are taken from cuttings and therefore stay as a spectacular red-flowering bush, up to almost a meter high.  It loves well-drained soil with lots of organic material (think of the conditions in the soil of a native forest with lots of compost, formed by fallen leaves and branches); don't let them dry out and keep the roots cool-ish…  Climbing rātā will go up rock walls and tree trunks in your garden; the shrub form does need quite a bit of sun if you want to see the spectacular crimson flowers.  Seeds form in summer to early autumn (in case you want to try and propagate a climbing crimson rātā)  The only PEST encountered on these Metrosideros species is MYTLE RUST.  Blown on the wind (by itself – like a NATIVE!!!) from Australia and settled in North and Western areas of the North Island and slowly spreading further south  A PEST with a Capital P. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 404, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "R"Rrrrrrrrr 1: Sometimes it's necessary to do this, meaning to reload your computer's operating system. reboot. 2: 3 points on one throw in horseshoes. ringer. 3: The stems of these Asian palms are used to make wicker furniture. rattan. 4: In a memorable 1982 TV movie, Jean Stapleton played this first lady. Eleanor Roosevelt. 5: Ionesco play that ends, "I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end. I'm not capitulating!". Rhinoceros. Round 2. Category: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do 1: In 1970 the world said "Hello, Goodbye" to this group whose film "Let It Be" documented their breakup. The Beatles. 2: After it broke up in 1991, 11 of its former republics joined the Commonwealth of Independent States. Soviet Union/U.S.S.R.. 3: In 1982 this communications giant agreed to divest itself of its Baby Bells. AT and T. 4: In 1938 2 Germans became the first to split this, producing barium and krypton from uranium. an atom. 5: Ancient supercontinent that many believe broke up, creating Laurasia and Gondwanaland. Pangaea. Round 3. Category: Gorilla My Dreams 1: The first gorilla born in captivity was Colo, who debuted in 1956 in this Ohio capital. Columbus. 2: Gorillas belong to this order of mammals which also includes monkeys, lemurs and man. Primates. 3: There are 3 types of gorillas: eastern lowland, western lowland and this one that lives at altitudes up to 13,000 feet. Mountain gorilla. 4: This zoologist founded the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda where she studied gorillas for 18 years. Dian Fossey. 5: This fully adult male with a colorful name may weigh twice as much as the adult females in his group. Silverback. Round 4. Category: Actors Onstage 1: In 1980 Jane Seymour played Mozart's wife on Broadway in this play. Amadeus. 2: In 1977 Anne Bancroft returned to Broadway to play this Mideast leader. Golda Meir. 3: Raquel Welch made her Broadway debut in this musical, replacing Lauren Bacall. Woman of the Year. 4: Jack Klugman sang with Ethel Merman in this musical, but he kept his clothes on. Gypsy. 5: Before "Roots" Levar Burton's only sizable role was as Ali Hakim in this musical at USC. Oklahoma!. Round 5. Category: Car Names 1: This wild horse is also called a cayuse or a bronco. a Mustang. 2: Quicksilver. Mercury. 3: An agreement. an Accord. 4: English seaport from which the Mayflower set sail in 1620. the Plymouth. 5: An insect of the order Coleoptera. a Beetle. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

What do Gondwanaland, the kōkako, bat walks, and eliminating New Zealand's invasive animal species have in common? They're all things Ben Paris spoke with me about in this new episode! Find all of the Give Bats A Break merch, socials, and podcasting platforms at the Linktree. I'd love it if you would leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser! Find and follow Ben Paris on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok! Go to the Bird of the Year 2021 website and vote for the pekapeka-tou-roa (or whatever you'd like to vote for, but make sure the bat is in there. No pressure. Big Bat is watching.)! Dig the song? Want to hear more? Check out my boy MNPHST.

Vor zehn Jahren öffnete das Gondwanaland im Leipziger Zoo seine Pforten. Die Reportage blickt hinter die Kulissen dieser einzigartigen Tropenhalle, die für 170 Tierarten einen nahezu natürlichen Lebensraum simuliert.

In December 2019, Dr. Dominique Homberger visited Bangalore after a gap of ten years.  She gave a talk at NCBS (National Centre for Biological Sciences). When we reached out to her, she immediately agreed to speak to us.  Are you interested in how parrot species and their beaks evolved? How do parrots eat? What is the link between the length of parrot beaks and what they eat-- fruits versus nuts? Have feathers evolved to insulate the birds? Why do feathers fluff up? Why is the body of the bird spindle-shaped? How do vultures soar? Parrots and the connection to Gondwanaland. Why is it bad when parrots in a cage start to speak? Contact calls among flocks of birds, how birds land on trees, are some of the other things she talks about. Dr. Homberger is one of the world's foremost authorities on the order Psittaciformes (i.e., parrots and cockatoos) and their feeding behavior and ecology, which she has studied in her lab as well in their natural environment in Australia, India, and Southern Patagonia. An alumni professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, USA, and the 2018–22 President of the International Ornithologists’ Union (IOU), Dr. Homberger's research has centred on comparative anatomy as a means to answer functional and evolutionary questions. She studies a variety of species from lampreys to sharks and salamanders, and from alligators, birds, and mammals to human beings. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Ornithological Society (AOS), and the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), and is an Honorary Member of The Linnaean Society of New York. If you have ever been curious about parrots, parakeets and other members of the order Psittaciformes, this is the episode for you. Dr. Homberger talks about how to study them, what makes them special, and what are the threats to their existence. She also has offered to help Indian scientists research parrots and parakeets. This episode was produced by Ulhas Anand, edited by Tamanna Atreya and anchored by Shoba Narayan.

You'll Never Guess What Gawndy Was Surprised With & The New Gondwanaland On Today's Show: Rate or Hate? Today we talk about liqourice allsorts and we cone across some very strong opinions from our listeners Gawndy was surprised over the weekend and you'll never guess what the surprise was! Rexit - Could Australia be the new Gondwanaland? We chat to Dane from a rural town on his opinion from the move. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Music by Brian Eno, Robert Rich, Gondwanaland, Deuter, Ishqamatics, iX7, Transponder, Master Margherita, Deepspace, Sven Kössler & Si Matthews, Remote Vision and Matthew Burtner. Compiled & mixed by Mike G @ Rubycon Sound, January 2019. Environments showcases evocative new music alongside some classics - a mix series about the psychoacoustic spaces and places that ambient builds in the world between our ears. Enjoy the trip. More at http://ambientmusicguide.com

Atlantis, Mu, Gondwanaland -- we're not asking if it was ancient aliens, but was it ancient aliens? Join Glenn and Brandon for a discussion of Part IV of "A Story," by John V. Marsch. Become a patron on Patreon to support the show and help us produce even more content for you. Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum. Subscribe to the show and leave a review! Up Next: Part I of our wrap-up of "A Story," by John V. Marsch.

Lanner Gorge in the Pafuri region of South Africa got its name from the lanner falcon, which you could watch from the rim soaring on your eye level… But that's not the only sight. Looking down into the gorge, it seems the earth opens up as a history book. In this episode we have a chat with Ross Hawkins about geology and the breaking up of Gondwanaland.

0:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders 0:06:40 Interview with Dr Pamela Gay We find out how Dr Pamela Gay and you can help NASA analyze more than 1.5 million images taken by astronauts on the International Space Station! They need your help analyzing these images – this is a task only a human like you can accomplish. Please join them in enhancing NASA’s extensive catalogue of astronaut images that can be used for science and enjoyed for their beauty. https://cosmoquest.org/x/beta/ 0:23:14 SHONKY Awards CHOICE's annual awards name and shame the shonkiest products and companies taking advantage of Australian consumers. - SHONKY: (adjective) Australian slang meaning "unreliable, unsound, dishonest, poor or of dubious quality; shoddy". https://www.choice.com.au/shonky-awards 0:30:55 Maynard's spooky action... at a distance Billie and the Dinosaurs Interviews with Tim Ferguson, Geoff and David Willis Three hundred million years ago, the world of the dinosaurs was called Pangea - a landmass that covered half the Earth until it broke into two supercontinents - Laurasia and Gondwanaland, which then broke into even more pieces, the largest of which was the island continent of Australia. Then, a great asteroid smashed into the Earth. And this started the Ice Age! And just like that, the dinosaurs were gone. Extinct. At least that’s what Mrs Chalkmore taught her Year 4 class; and only one of her students knew that she was completely and utterly wrong - a girl called Billie. http://www.billieandthedinosaurs.com 0:40:07 A Grain of Salt with Eran Segev This week Eran chats to Massimo Polidoro and James Randi at the European Skeptics Congress. 0:45:50 Susan Gerbic on tour in Germany Susan chats to Holm Gero Hümmler who has been active in the German skeptics' group GWUP since 1990s. He was a regional spokesman and convenor for the Frankfurt area. For several years he was an editor of The Skeptiker magazine http://guerrillaskepticismonwikipedia.blogspot.com.au Also... Australian Skeptics - Late night radio segment with Mike Williams http://www.2gb.com/podcast/richard-saunders-from-australian-skeptics-society/ Australian Skeptics - Breakfast with John Stanley and Garry Linnell https://www.talkinglifestyle.com.au/?s=skeptics Maynard and Bunga Bunga http://www.maynard.com.au CSI Con - Las Vagas http://csiconference.org QED - Manchester http:https://www.talkinglifestyle.com.au/?s=skepticss//www.qedcon.org QED - Skepticamp Manchester http://www.skepticamp.co.uk SITP Organiser Survey - http://glasgowskeptics.com/sitp Skepticon Sydney http://www.skeptics.com.au

Featured artists: Japetus, Robodop Snei, X1 Project, Ornament, Not Drowning Waving, John Elder, Avene, Sapien Trace, Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke, Citystate, Gondwanaland. The Red Bull Music Academy commissioned me to write the article "Ambience Australis – 10 essential Oz ambient and downtempo albums reviewed" for their street zine The Note to coincide with the Red Bull Weekender arts and music festival in Sydney, 31 August-3 September 2017. I also created this mix - a tribute to some great Australian music from the past 30 years. Compiled & mixed by Mike G at Rubycon Sound, August 2017. More at ambientmusicguide.com

In this episode we gather our liquid strength and courage to work our way through two chapters of Origin of Species, Chapter XII - Geographical Distribution and Chapter XIII - Geographical Distribution continued.  Although Sarah predicted the podcast would last 3 hours we luckily were able to restrain ourselves to 1 hour and 28 minutes.We do have two corrections to make-#1  Although Josh declared that Noah's Ark came to rest on the top of Mt. Sinai the general view is that it actually settled on Mt. Ararat.#2 James mentioned the relationship between flightless birds (ratites) and the breakup of paleocontinent of Pangea when he should have said Gondwanaland instead.Chapter XII-XII These two chapters have been present in OoS since the first edition and it is in these chapters that Darwin defends his model against the prevailing view of the time - special creation. To make his argument Darwin uses modern distribution patterns of plants and animals on continents and islands, the success of introduced species to new habitats, experiments he conducted at Down House and data he collected from citizen scientists. Geographical Distribution  There is hardly a climate or condition in the Old World which cannot be paralleled in the New—at least as closely as the same species generally require....Notwithstanding this general parallelism in the conditions of the Old and New Worlds, how widely different are their living productions!Sarah discussed the idea of the monkeys from Africa (Old World Monkeys) are quite different from the monkeys found in South America (New World). In Madagascar are found the prosimians "almost monkeys" like lemurs, aye-aye, and sifakas.By Joseph Meyer - MKL online at Retro Bibliothek, work 149, 2009, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2598452On the continent of Africa are a large diversity of primates that range from leaf-eating species like the colobus monkeys to the generalist species like the vervet monkeys and baboons.  In addition gorillas and chimps which are tail-less apes are also in Africa (we realize that these are not monkeys but they needed to be mentioned none-the-less).www.discovery.comThe New World monkeys are quite different in form, long limbed with many species having a prehensile tail which they can use as a 5th limb.http://www.wildernessclassroom.com/students/archives/2005/03/spider-monkey.htmlJosh talked about the rich diversity of marsupial mammals found in Australia, the most striking is(was) the Tasmanian Wolf, a marsupial carnivore that looks like a dog but it is more closely related to a kangeroo! Here is a haunting silent 1936 film of the last known living Tasmanian wolf filmed in captivity. James discussed Darwin's interest in the flightless birds like the ostrich, cassowary, rhea, emu, tinamou and kiwi and Josh reminded us of the extinct Moa. This picture shows the relative sizes of the kiwi, ostrich and moa with the eggs. Notice how large the egg of the Kiwi is relative to its body size. It is the largest egg per body size while the ostrich egg is one of the smallest relative to the body size!Until recently the prevailing view of flightless bird evolution was that the early flightless bird evolved before the continent of Gondwana broke up into the separate continents and then each lineage of flightless bird evolved on their prospective continents - Rheas in South America, ostrich in Africa, Emu in Australia and Kiwi and Cassowary in New Zealand. Recent molecular evidence has challenged that view and actually argues that "flightlessness" evolved independently three times.We discussed the various experiments Darwin conducted with seed dispersal in salt water or in the guts of birds and fish as well as insects and seeds being dispersed on the feet of duck, swans and other semi-aquatic birds. James was reminded of a childhood story in a Dr. Dolittle book, Doctor Dolittle's Garden in which a beetle recounts being brought to England on the foot of a duck.http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0603431h.html#d5_THE_WATER_BEETLESarah brought up the idea of endemics, and how unique species with limited geographic distributions are often found on islands or high elevation habitats which supports Darwin's model of isolation and speciation. Sarah used the Silversword as an example, a beautiful plant that is found only on the high elevations of Halaekala on the island of Maui in Hawaii. James exposed the beauty and elegance of the plant so here is a picture he took last May 2015.Flowering silversword - photo by James WagnerThe opening and closing theme to Discovering Darwin is "May" by Jared C. Balogh. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Balogh/Revitalized_Eyes/MAY interlude music Octopussy by Juanitos. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Juanitos/

Tens of millions of years ago the New Zealand landmass separated from Gondwanaland with its cargo of plants and animals. But is there another theory?