Lol!

I don't know the stats for our clinic, but I just read some data recently that groups in the US are finding 80-90% of raptor species showing detectable levels of rodenticide. It's unbelievable. Between that and lead, we're really doing a number on our populations by refusing to stop putting these things into our environment.

Looking forward to your victory! 🤞❤️🦉

Btw, I'm not a bro. I'm a different family member for you. I'm a nanna!

Perhaps the joke should go how are echidnas and cop cars the same because our echidnas keep their willies tucked up inside until needed.

Thank you. It's been a long time coming and we've been disappointed over and over again so we're hoping this govt sign-off will finally take these lethal poisons off the retail market. I'll put up a post when we know it's gone through.

Heard this one the other day,

Q. Whats the difference between echidnas and cop cars?

A. The pricks are on the inside of the cop cars.

All echidnas are male.

You can tell by the pricks.

I'm hoping you guys are able to succeed with this! I'm a huge fan of Aussie owls, and it would only be helpful to other places looking to reduce availability of these poisons.

Lol, that teaches me a lesson. Don't use the word 'sex' in a post ever again 😅. It can be taken in ways i never imagined.

Bro, where is the age verification on this video?

Ohhhhh, that kind of sexing....

Did you try putting the link in the 'URL' field and the custom image in the 'Thumbnail URL'? That looks to me to get the result you want.

I've made an example post on c/Meta: https://aussie.zone/post/30690873

Does that look like what you want?

Thanks zg, that's why I put the video link on the main text. I can't get it to work any other way.

Post link is just an image, again, not the video. Just to let you know, since you said to.

Very cute echidna, btw

Hopefully people can schedule their washing machines, dishwashers etc to run at those times.

plenty of batteries already and more every day, every ecar but V2G is super expensive and they've only subsidised standalone batteries.

that said I have zero idea why this news article is in this community ?

for a livable biosphere, we need renewable only and it needs to be super expensive, with the cost above the use of a small household being exponential.

Yes, high oil prices will speed up the shift.

Hopefully over the next few years battery installation can catch up to the production.

I refuse to call those monstrosities utes. Utes have a car chassis.

I'm curious where you got the data that it tows worse than the other EV trucks, because its larger battery option is pretty big, only meaningfully overshadowed by extremely expensive trim levels of the CT and Silverado, from what I remember. Is there some way it doesn't just boil down to battery size for long hauling? You pretty much get what you pay for when it comes to battery banks.

For my use-case, I don't tow much, and when I do tow heavy, it's across the farm or across town. The trailer I go places with only drags me down by 25% and I can still get three highway hours with it. I got my Lightning for carting lumber and tools around. I don't put a lot of mileage on the hitch, but there's always something in or over the bed.

The Rivian's bed is too short to throw plywood in unstrapped. If they made a two-door option for it with a longer bed, it would have been ideal. The Lightning has just enough bed for that, pretty much down to the inch. The Silverado looked like a solid choice too, but it has those wings that interfere with overhead racks, and predatory software practices, so I passed on it. Then the CT needs a special rack and has no frunk space, plus it costs more and Elon is evil, so I passed on that too.

i mean technically we are, the iran war has increased petrol prices by a third, maybe soon even more!

The Lightning is fine from an EV perspective, besides ford’s software, but fails at basic truck things. Their tow ratings never got close to their claimed distance, and against other trucks are so so terrible. If you aren’t putting weight in the bed of your truck, you do not need a truck.

So if you bought a Lightning and you aren’t having mileage issues then you should have gotten a Hyundai or Kia or Rivian, all of which have better software, better mileage, and aren’t at risk of being discontinued (which was clear was a possibility for ford when they first released the Lightning) because you clearly didn’t need a truck.

If you bought a ev truck because you didn’t want to own multiple vehicles and you needed to tow something every once in a while, well you still should have gotten something else, because EV SUVs can still tow.

Amazing! Thanks!

So the Western Australian Government last year didn't renew the ~40 year contract for the States railways that were sold on lease to private interests 20 years or so ago, and have in large parts been leftvto rot. Another case of private ownership being an inefficient use of reaources, but thats besdies the point. So the WA Government have begun the 20 year process of transitioning the railways back into government ownership.

I'm not sure that they have a clear plan yet, but they obviously have some aspirations for getting a rail network for freight across the wheatbelt going again. So maybe they're thinking what you're thinking. But its an example of long term thinking in this area.

I assume they will publish a journal article with details like diagrams eventually. This 2022 journal article by the same researchers has a bunch of details and photos of the natural palm cockatoo hollows they were trying to emulate: http://dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo39113124

This ABC article from last year about the project contains some more photos of the artificial hollows and also details of a long-running artificial hollow project for Carnaby's cockatoos in WA: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-23/artificial-nest-trial-for-cape-york-palm-cockatoo/105925758

Sweet! Would love to see if Gang Gangs would uptake artificial hollows as well - they're also quite fussy. Wish there was like a cross section diagram of the log hollow.