Never encountered them in the city, but since I live approximately here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Coonabarabran_location_map_in_New_South_Wales.PNG I have seen them one more time than once. The first time was in that dot to the north of the red line, working at the Narrabri array. After sunset, on a day when I had seen a kookaburra attack a snake, and about 20 kangaroos just milling about (normal events really, at that site), there was an echnidna just wandering about. I got a rather fuzzy shot that I can't find right now.
And the other time was last week when swapping the car with the next telescope operator -- she lives about 15 km out of Coona -- and I encountered an echidna on the road which I had to swerve around. When we came back, it was still in the same place. That's when I spotted the smouldering upturned tanker that hit it. Or maybe not.
I was just talking about wombats today. A friend of mine in Melbourne was hit 3 (three) times by a wombat on the yarra trail last week, as he was MTBing along. Hit the wombat, stopped, wombat hit him, then wombat hit him again and knocked him over. Tacoed his wheel. It turns out wombats can supposedly run 40km/h for short periods (found this out from a German observer who gave a colloquium today, then backed up by the highly reliable pikiwedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat ) This be also true: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Wombat
Do you want some possums? I hear Enb Zedders really love them.
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I have seen them one more time than once. The first time was in that dot to the north of the red line, working at the Narrabri array. After sunset, on a day when I had seen a kookaburra attack a snake, and about 20 kangaroos just milling about (normal events really, at that site), there was an echnidna just wandering about. I got a rather fuzzy shot that I can't find right now.
And the other time was last week when swapping the car with the next telescope operator -- she lives about 15 km out of Coona -- and I encountered an echidna on the road which I had to swerve around. When we came back, it was still in the same place. That's when I spotted the smouldering upturned tanker that hit it. Or maybe not.
I was just talking about wombats today. A friend of mine in Melbourne was hit 3 (three) times by a wombat on the yarra trail last week, as he was MTBing along. Hit the wombat, stopped, wombat hit him, then wombat hit him again and knocked him over. Tacoed his wheel. It turns out wombats can supposedly run 40km/h for short periods (found this out from a German observer who gave a colloquium today, then backed up by the highly reliable pikiwedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat ) This be also true: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Wombat
Do you want some possums? I hear Enb Zedders really love them.