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Hi all
You may or may not know but
Cairns has Skyrail- a cable car that runs from Cairns up to Kuranda in the hills
behind. It runs over the rainforest hills, the Barron Gorge and the Barron Falls
(very spectacular this weekend with all the rain). I finally got to go on it as
we had visitors, very enjoyable and a worthwhile experience. The point of the
story is the way in which White-breasted Woodswallows have learnt to take
advantage of the Skyrail. Above the rainforest canopy large swarms of insects
gather and the woodswallows try to catch them by diving into them. However this
tends to disperse the insects, so they have learnt to perch on the moving cables
and be taken into the swarms of insects without disturbing them, thus obtaining
a better feed than they would otherwise and they don't have to pay to travel on
it!
Keith & Lindsay Fisher
PO Box 2209,
Cairns QLD 4870
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