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  Australian Goannas - Evolution and Radiation
Goannas, or monitors as they are known elsewhere in the world, are a very distinctive group of lizards.
Goannas find their food by searching widely across the landscape, catching animals by stalking or digging them out of shelters and nests.
Goannas may have evolved in such profusion in Australia because when they arrived, there were relatively few medium-sized carnivores competing for the same resources.
www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/goannas.htm   (353 words)

  
 goanna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Goannas are found in the coastal areas and ranges of eastern and south eastern Australia.
Goannas are found in most habitat types around Australia, with a preference for sandy soils in open woodlands.
Goannas lay about five or six eggs in their nest which might be in a hollow or might be a burrow.
www.cap.nsw.edu.au /collies_clicks/fauna/goanna/goanna.htm   (274 words)

  
 Goanna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The goanna is in fact not an iguana, but a species of monitor lizard.
In the northern parts of the country, goannas stay active all year round, but in the south they are inactive in the cold months.
In the northern part of Australia, goannas breed in the wet season which is in summer, but in the south they breed in spring.
www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/goanna.htm   (226 words)

  
 Goanna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Goannas have even been blamed for the death of sheep by farmers, though most likely erroneously, as goannas are also eaters of carrion and are attracted to rotting meat.
Goannas are found throughout most of Australia, except for Tasmania, and manage to persist in a variety of environments.
For many years it was generally believed by herpetologists that goannas were nonvenomous, and that lingering illness from their bites was due solely to infection and septicaemia as a result of their saliva being rife with bacteria from carrion and other food sources.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goanna   (1323 words)

  
 Goanna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A Goanna has a flattened body, a tail ready to strike at enemies, stout limbs, long digits and sharp claws.
Goannas have a long neck with loose skin under the throat which sags in some species causing it to look like the neck is bigger than the head.
Goannas are largely terrestrial and digs its own burrow system but it will readily take refuge in a tree if a burrow is not nearby.
www.home.no /australiaweb/Goanna.html   (176 words)

  
 Herron Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd - Goanna
The Goanna range of soothing rubs and oils dates back to 1910 and was developed based on remedies used by aboriginal people and settler's recipes.
Goanna Rubs work directly at the point of pain and discomfort, providing temporary soothing relief and take into account today's needs and busy lifestyles.
Goanna is suited to active people who need quick, penetrating, temporary relief from muscular aches and pains, arthritis pain, cuts, bruises, or just soreness.
www.herron.com.au /products/goanna/goanna.html   (107 words)

  
 Goanna Information - The Goanna's Retreat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
epending on the actual type of goanna, they can be quite small, and ranging up to over 2 meters in length, and are generally a timid creature.
Goannas warm themselves in the morning by basking in a sunny sheltered refuge (hollow, depression or crevice) and they shed excess heat by seeking out deep shade, elevated shaded perch sites or deep, cool burrows.
An Australian fossil goanna, Megalania, dating from the Miocene (5-25 million years ago) was larger than the living Komodo "Dragon".
www.thegoanna.com /goannas.html   (1275 words)

  
 Goanna (Sand Monitor)
Early white settlers saw these creaturers and thought they were a type of "Iguana" (which is the Guyana Indian name for Lizard) and over the years this word transformed into the present word GOANNA Goanna's are in relaity "Monitor Lizards" of which Australia has 20 of the 30 species found worldwide.
In northern Australia the Goanna breeds in the wet season (summer); in the south mating occurs in spring.
The Goanna is an active forager which tracks down and digs out lizards (and their eggs), insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes and even small mammals(a).
home.iprimus.com.au /readman/goanna.htm   (347 words)

  
 Solid Rock - The Music of Goanna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Goanna also happened to be on the same label as another Australian band, INXS, and both were distributed in America through Atco.
Goanna was also part of a new Australian music movement - groups that sang about ecological issues and conservation and war crimes and Imperialism and American nuclear testing.
The new Goanna track, "Sorry," was written by Marcia Howard and based on the life story of Margaret Tucker, whose autobiography If Everyone Cared (Grosvenor Melbourne, 1977) told of her kidnaping and enslavement.
members.aol.com /boardwalk7/goanna.html   (5384 words)

  
 Burarra Gathering - Goanna
The goanna ('go-anna') is an Australian reptile that is also known as the monitor lizard.
Goannas (aranus gouldii) have flat bodies, long necks, big claws, well-developed teeth and forked tongues and they make very good bush tucker.
Goannas are carnivorous and live off insects and small animals and love to eat eggs.
burarra.questacon.edu.au /pages/goanna.html   (106 words)

  
 ::Welcome to Giddy Goanna::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Giddy Goanna is a unique program, operated by a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving the health, safety and literacy of children and families throughout Australia and the world.
Giddy Goanna is viewed by children as a very popular entertainment program, in the same field as Pokemon, Bob the Builder, Bananas in Pyjamas...
Giddy Goanna has also proven to be one of the most successful programs in Australia at actually changing the health and safety behaviours of adults.
www.giddygoanna.org /about.htm   (937 words)

  
 goanna
You mostly meet the goanna on the ground, wandering about the forest looking for food, but when is is disturbed it races to the top of the nearest large tree, the large sharp strong claws gripping the bark.
Goannas are very good hunters and will eat mammals, birds and reptiles.
Goannas are found in forested areas of Eastern Australia.
www.fauna.com.au /reptiles/goanna.php   (195 words)

  
 Goanna - Australian Wildlife Facts - Rhianna's Rampage
Twenty of the worlds 58 species of Goanna's or Monitor Lizards as they are known elsewhere in the world are native to Australia.
Goanna's then "read" these scents with a special organ in the roof of the mouth, much like a snake does.
Found in all regions of Australia, the Goanna is an excellent climber, and a strong swimmer.
www.rhianna.id.au /Facts/goanna.html   (575 words)

  
 Turtle (Budgial), Goanna (Gunual), and Fish (Gugu)
The goanna man followed her footprints and found the turtle man holding his woman, so he said to the turtle man, "I'm going to kill you that is my woman." The turtle man held up two shields and then jumped into the water.
When he was in the river the goanna man threw spears at him but the shields stopped the spears from killing him.
The goanna man had seen him change from a man into a turtle and though he was the devil.
www.didjshop.com /stories/turtle.html   (461 words)

  
 ::Welcome to Giddy Goanna::
It was so effective, that we had much demand from parents and health/safety professionals to expand and cover a broad range of health and safety issues so all children could benefit.
Giddy Goanna is a registered non-profit organisation, established so that all funds received are used to produce products and programs that will improve the lives of children and their families.
Giddy Goanna says you should wear them." Grandad has worn his earmuffs ever since, as he thinks Giddy’s messages are great for the grandchildren and he wants them to be doing the safe things.
www.giddygoanna.org /aboutFAQ.htm   (909 words)

  
 Goanna Installation
Installation of Project Goanna requires a number of third party Eiffel libraries to be installed and built.
The build files for Goanna reference all required C libraries in their default locations.
However, at this stage, it is not recommended that applications be deployed using the Goanna HTTP server because it does not provide any authentication facilities and has not been thoroughly tested.
goanna.sourceforge.net /installation.htm   (725 words)

  
 Goanna icon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
You can see the tail of the goanna which is dragging along in the ground with the footprints on either side of this mark.
The goanna is a large lizard that lives in Australia.
Sometimes it is very hard to tell whether the goanna is in the hole and its very hard to look for its track, whether a goanna is in the hole or not.
www.jintaart.com.au /iconography/goanico.htm   (235 words)

  
 Goanna - AOL Music
There are around 20 species of goanna, 15 of which are unique to...
When white people first came to Australia they saw large reptiles they thought were a kind of iguana, and called them 'goanna'.
Download, listen and watch Goanna music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/goanna/25215/main   (104 words)

  
 Quarter-finalists decided at Goanna Pro Tapia 1* WQS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
With seven heats remaining and the best field of surfer left, make sure you log on our website to be with us until the ultimate second of this edition.
The Goanna Pro is 1 Star WQS event and celebrates its fourteenth edition.
This contest is part of europe professional surfing’s history and this edition is rewarded with some good clean waves.
www.surfersvillage.com /surfing/21279/news.htm   (879 words)

  
 ANIMAL Teachers: Cold-blooded Ones: Goanna
(Goanna is also the Australian name for the Monitor Lizards that live there.) In Australia, She fills the niche of predatory and scavenging Mammals.
Goanna’s tongue flashes back and forth from his mouth, as he tastes the air to find out who’s about.
He calmly saunters along poking his nose into all manner of mischief but, forget not, that should Goanna feel the need for speed, there is nothing to see after the dust has cleared.
www.funkman.org /animal/reptile/goanna.html   (387 words)

  
 Gould's Goanna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Gould's goanna is an attractive and conspicuous goanna found throughout the Perth region and most of Western Australia.
Gould's Goanna is common around Perth (where it is known as the Racehorse Goanna).
Gould's Goanna is a ground dwelling monitor and digs a burrow in which to shelter.
www.westernwildlife.com.au /western/reptiles/goulds.htm   (216 words)

  
 GOANNA Project
I didn't even attempt SE 2.1, as goanna requires Log4e and this won't compile with SE 2.1 (it doesn't support INTEGER_REF, amongst other things, and I have no intention of investigating all this, until after the next release of Gobo).
I couldn't find any reference within the yaesockets README as to who the author/maintainer is. Perhaps if (s)he is reading this group, they can advise as to whether yaesockets will be updated to support VE, or whether it would be a better idea to switch to using ePosix for socket support.
If you invoke this servlet from your web browser, passing it two URI-valued parameters (in the near future, only one will be necessary), namely the transform you wish to perform, and the XML source you wish to be transformed, and it will serve up the result to your web browser.
www.codecomments.com /message489069.html   (622 words)

  
 Kerry Packer dead: long live the Goanna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Headed by Frank Costigan QC, the focus of the commission gradually switched from the union to the activities of a hugely powerful figure, code named the Goanna, alleged to be the untouchable godfather of Australian crime, involved in tax evasion, corporate fraud, pornography, drug importation, money laundering and even murder.
Costigan spent four months preparing summaries of the activities of the Goanna, which were handed to the National Crime Authority.
Packer eventually made a public admission that he was the Goanna.
www.australian-news.com.au /Packer.htm   (581 words)

  
 Goanna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Goanna is like the perentie but called the goanna, and the Goanna is smaller than the Perentie.
The goanna lives in the plains or sandhill habitats.
If you want to cook the Goanna throw it on to burning flames to singe the skin.
www.mjhall.org /bushtucker/goanna.htm   (112 words)

  
 Hua Hin After Dark - Goanna's bar and guesthouse Hua Hin
We are proud to have built a reputation as one of the most comfortable and friendliest little guesthouses in Central Hua Hin.
Within an easy 5 minute walk you can be; relaxing on the beach, enjoying a Traditional Thai massage, or shopping in the hub of Hua Hin.
Living up to our motto of “Laid Back And Lovin' It”, our comfortable surroundings, the best pool table in town, and great company makes this the place to be.
www.huahinafterdark.com /goannas-bar-guesthouse-hua-hin.htm   (264 words)

  
 Goanna Productions - Television and Media Company - 0400 110 688
In December of 2003, Goanna Productions International became a reality.
Whilst making films for the broadcast and corporate world, we also bring to the table a new and innovative feel, which only comes with years of production experience.
Our attention to detail and quality is paramount to the ‘Goanna’ ideal, i.e.
www.goannaproductions.com /index.html   (117 words)

  
 Incubation of Sand Goanna Varanus gouldii Eggs
There has been much discussion concerning the incubation of these eggs and an incubation period of almost 30 weeks leaves a lot of feed for thought.
A goanna in the wild would lay its eggs at approximately the same time that these were laid.
As the incubation period was controlled at probably the maximum of heat, it is possible that the last egg was closer to the natural incubation time than the others.
www.smuggled.com /BriBar15.htm   (925 words)

  
 The Porcupine and Goanna Tribes
The Porcupine and Goanna Tribes were friends and the men would often hunt together, even though the Porcupine Tribe were very proud and did everything they were supposed to and the Goannas were very sly, cunning and lazy lot.
Finally the Porcupines made a kill, the Goannas, seeing the chance of free food said, "You have a rest while we prepare the food, you have done your share." Soon the Porcupines were fast asleep and as soon as the Goannas saw this they loaded the food and proceeded to steal it away.
Seeing this they jumped up and grabbed a burning stick from the fire and chased the Goannas, hitting them on the back, leaving a pattern that is still seen there today.
www.didjshop.com /stories/porcupine.html   (198 words)

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