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- From: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au (Rabbit Himself)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,talk.bizarre.rabbit
- Subject: Easter Bilby (Was Re: Smoking toads)
- Message-ID: <9599@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 12:35:07 GMT
- References: <u734120.712381460@bruny>
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
- Reply-To: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au
- Followup-To: talk.bizarre
- Organization: Plot Free Universe
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- In article 712381460@bruny, u734120@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (John Lamp) writes:
- >act@csc.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops) writes:
- >
- >>This bizarre story is true. Here in non-bizarre down-under the northern folks
- >>imported a frog which is known as the cane toad to control the sugar cane
- >>beetle. It did this but it also is an ecological disaster as the plurry frogs
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^
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- >It certainly did not. The importation of the cane toad into Australia ranks
- >as an ecological disaster second only to the rabbit in Australia. Give it
- >time and it will out do the rabbit.
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- Speaking of out-doing the rabbit, did anyone hear that there has
- been a move on the part of various Aus politicians (not sure who,
- but evidently chasing green votes) to attempt to replace the
- Easter Bunny with, if I heard correctly, a long-nosed western bilby,
- hence The Easter Bilby. The move would form the premise of a
- fund-raising campaign to save the dwindling population of bilbies
- and reduce the rabbit population. Cute, huh?
-
- --Rabbit.
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