Red-Bellied Black Snake

The Red-Bellied Black Snake is a venomous species of elapid snake native to eastern Australia. Its venom is capable of causing significant morbidity. It's popular in woodlands, forests and swamplands of eastern Australia. They can grow up to 1.5 meters. It can give birth up to 40 live snakes at one time. The bite is very dangerous and immediately requires medical attention.It has 17 mid-body scale rows. It likes to stay close to dams, streams, billabongs and water. Commonly it's not an aggressive specie. It is active by day and night. It eats frogs, small mammals and reptiles, also they eat each other. Tiger Snake venom is used to treat bites from red-bellied black snakes.




Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-bellied_Black_Snake
http://www.australianfauna.com/redbelliedblacksnake.php
Pictures:
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Vegemite

Vegemite is a dark brown Australian food dough made from yeast extract. It's a grease for sandwiches, toast, crumpets, cracker biscuits and filling for pastries such as Cheesymite scroll. You can compare it to British, New Zealand and South African Marmite and to Swiss Cenovis. It is made from used brewers' yeast extract and various vegetable and spice additives. Vegemite is salty, rather bitter and malty. It is smooth and sticky. It hasn't been marketed in other countries. The owner is US food company Kraft Foods. In the United States Vegemite doesn't contain the Kraft logo. Vegemite was invented in 1922 by food technologist Dr. Cyril P. Callister. You can eat vegemite on toasted bread with butter or margarine. It has a lot of B vitamins in it.


For more information about vegemite visit this site: http://www.vegemite.com.au/vegemite/page?PagecRef=1

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite
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Steve Irwin

Stephen Robert Irwin was born on 22 February 1962 in Essendon, Victoria, Australia and died on 4 September 2006. Nicknamed as "The Crocodile Hunter". His parents Lyn and Bob Irwin owned the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, which was later passed on to Steve. He renamed it in 1992 Australia Zoo. He was an Australian television personality, wildlife expert and conservationist. Stephen became popular by the television program The Crocodile Hunter. Together they co-owned Australia Zoo. In 1992 he married to Terri Raines. They have two children a daughter Bindi Sue Irwin born on 24 July 1998 and a son Robert Clarence Irwin born on 1 December 2003. In 2001 he released his book "The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve . He died after being fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. He has once said "My job, my mission, the reason I've been put on this planet, is to save wildlife."






Here is an interesting video of him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4_mWRnmWEs


Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410455/bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin
Pictures:
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