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| A praying mantis, in Arop |
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| This grasshopper looked even bigger in person. |
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| These roosters drove us crazy! Every morning they would start crowing all over the village at 3:30, hours before sunrise. |
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| There were lots of scrawny dogs in the village, where they were generally only tolerated and not treated as pets. |
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| A colorful parrot in the village. |
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| In Madang we saw hundreds of huge bats roosting in trees in the middle of the town. |
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| A monitor lizard near Rainbow Beach, Queensland, Australia. |
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| At Lamington National Park in Australia, there was a bird feeding area with colorful birds very used to being fed. Even if we weren't holding anything, they would land on our outstretched hands (or shoulders, or head). |
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| Typically sedentary koalas at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. |
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| More active koalas; they spend nearly all their time awake chewing. |
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| Finally, the way-more-active-than-I'd-ever-seen-koalas-before koalas. They had lots of koalas, of all different ages. |
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| Don't get too close. |
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| Kangaroos and wallabies. |
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| And a very old Tasmanian Devil - looking and moving kind of like an ROUS. |
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