Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 29 Apr 2024, 07:34
Australian antechinus?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 29 Apr 2024, 08:59
Sorry Gloria but no. (But you're on the right continent.), much bigger than one of them.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 29 Apr 2024, 10:03
Is it a bandicoot?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 29 Apr 2024, 11:16
Is it a Quokka?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 29 Apr 2024, 12:09
No Wendy, Kev has it but I want to know what is peculiar about it's domicile...... That's badly worded, where does it live and what's notable about it.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 30 Apr 2024, 02:49
Nobody appears to want to tell me about the Quokka's home.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 30 Apr 2024, 06:47
I had to look it up, Wikipedia says
The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth and Bald Island near Albany. Isolated, scattered populations also exist in forest and coastal heath between Perth and Albany. A small colony inhabits a protected area of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, where they co-exist with the critically endangered Gilbert's potoroo.
The quokka's range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia, particularly Rottnest Island just off Perth and Bald Island near Albany. Isolated, scattered populations also exist in forest and coastal heath between Perth and Albany. A small colony inhabits a protected area of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, where they co-exist with the critically endangered Gilbert's potoroo.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 30 Apr 2024, 06:58
Well done Kev. That's more than I knew, I was told they were confined to Rottnest Island which is where I saw them. They are very tame, you can go right up to them in the wild.
Next object?
Next object?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 30 Apr 2024, 09:01
Tourists often lay on the ground, waiting for the Quokka to come to them , then take a selfie.
Quokka’s often look like they are smiling. Very cute.
Quokka’s often look like they are smiling. Very cute.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 01 May 2024, 02:26
There was a fashion at one time for students to go to Rottnest and use Quokkas as footballs but I think that might have died out. I hope so!
What is it?
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 May 2024, 02:40
No takers?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 May 2024, 13:23
You've seen it before. David's favourite..... 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 May 2024, 14:52
Aah - the penny drops - must be a 'knurler' of some sort? 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 May 2024, 01:31
Correct! A home-made knurling tool.
Next one?
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 May 2024, 12:38
What are these?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 May 2024, 12:54
Fulling machines?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 May 2024, 13:01
Yes Wendy, fulling stocks at Helmshore. I thought they had a chance but you lot are getting educated now!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 May 2024, 01:45
What's happening here?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 May 2024, 09:36
Confirming the power of a vacuum? Or is it an advert for medieval superglue?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 May 2024, 11:39
I'm with Tizer on that. The Magdeburg experiment?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 May 2024, 02:52
Correct.... Otto von Guericke, German scientist of Magdeburg who invented the air pump and demonstrated the power of a vacuum.
What's happening here and where?
What's happening here and where?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 May 2024, 07:40
The Magdeburg one was a good one.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 May 2024, 08:57
Good! How about this one Gloria?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 May 2024, 09:23
Does it involve a Scottish island?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 May 2024, 03:16
It sounds as though you have cracked it Peter. Yes.....