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Fauna of Australia

Index Fauna of Australia

The fauna of Australia consists of a huge variety of animals; some 83% of mammals, 89% of reptiles, 24% of fish and insects and 93% of amphibians that inhabit the continent are endemic to Australia. [1]

91 relations: Amegilla bombiformis, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Australia, Australian Alps, Australian comedy, Australian cuisine, Australian green tree frog, Australian Journal of Zoology, Big Pineapple, Black Saturday bushfires, Brayford Pool, Brisbane Broncos, Buzz pollination, Caramello Koala, Crescent honeyeater, Culture of Australia, Cumberland Plain, David Fleay Wildlife Park, Dingo, Down Under (book), Dreamworld Corroboree, Emu, Emu Heights, New South Wales, Environment of Australia, Fauna of Africa, Fauna of Asia, Fauna of Europe, Fauna of the Australian Capital Territory, Fauna of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat, Federation architecture, First voyage of James Cook, Flora and fauna of Tasmania, Forests of Australia, Frank Allan, Georgina Sweet, Hard Quiz, Index of Australia-related articles, Invasive species in Australia, Irena Sibley, Jandakot Airport, Katherine Belov, Klytie Pate, Koala, Land clearing in Australia, List of bats of Australia, List of controversial video games, List of extinct animals of Australia, List of introduced fish in Australia, List of mammals of Australia, ..., List of marine molluscs of Australia, List of non-marine molluscs of Australia, Macrotis, Maribyrnong River, Mary Howitt, National Reserve System, Natural history of Australia, Nature Notebook, NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service, Outline of Australia, Outline of Oceania, Phalangeriformes, Platypus, Postage stamps and postal history of Australia, Quaternary extinction event, Rakali, Razorback (film), Red kangaroo, Riverview Gold Cup, Rosford Street Reserve, Salinity in Australia, Shoalhaven Zoo, Short-beaked echidna, Spiders of Australia, Survival Island 3, Tambo River (Victoria), Tasmanian devil, Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish, The Mammals of Australia, Threatened fauna of Australia, Thylacine, Totally Wild, Tree-kangaroo, Trust for Nature, University of Sydney Quadrangle, Warrandyte State Park, Waterfall Gully, South Australia, Western Treatment Plant, Wetherill Park Nature Reserve, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Willie wagtail. Expand index (41 more) »

Amegilla bombiformis

Amegilla bombiformis, commonly known as the teddy bear bee or golden haired mortar bee, is an Australian native bee in the family Apidae.

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Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research

The Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research (ARI) is the biodiversity research organisation for the government of Victoria, Australia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Alps

The Australian Alps, an interim Australian bioregion, data is the highest mountain range in Australia.

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Australian comedy

Australian comedy (or Australian humour) refers to the comedy and humour performed in or about Australia or by the people of Australia.

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Australian cuisine

Australian cuisine refers to the cuisine of Australia and its indigenous and colonial societies.

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Australian green tree frog

The Australian green tree frog, simply green tree frog in Australia, White's tree frog, or dumpy tree frog (Litoria caerulea) is a species of tree frog native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in the United States and New Zealand, though the latter is believed to have died out.

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Australian Journal of Zoology

The Australian Journal of Zoology is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal published by CSIRO Publishing.

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Big Pineapple

The Big Pineapple is a heritage-listed tourist attraction at Nambour Connection Road, Woombye, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Black Saturday bushfires

The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009 and were Australia's all-time worst bushfire disasters.

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Brayford Pool

The Brayford Pool is a natural lake formed from a widening of the River Witham in the centre of the city of Lincoln in England.

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Brisbane Broncos

The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the city of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland.

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Buzz pollination

Buzz pollination or sonication is a technique used by some bees, such as solitary bees (Andrena carantonica) to release pollen which is more or less firmly held by the anthers.

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Caramello Koala

Caramello Koala is a brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by Cadbury Australia.

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Crescent honeyeater

The crescent honeyeater (Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus) is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, native to southeastern Australia.

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Culture of Australia

The culture of Australia is a Western culture, derived primarily from Britain but also influenced by the unique geography of Australia, the cultural input of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other Australian people.

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Cumberland Plain

The Cumberland Plain is a relatively flat region lying to the west of Sydney CBD in New South Wales, Australia.

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David Fleay Wildlife Park

David Fleay Wildlife Park is a heritage-listed wildlife park at Fleays Wildlife Park Conservation Park, Tallebudgera Creek Road, Tallebudgera, Queensland, Australia.

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Dingo

The dingo (Canis familiaris or Canis familiaris dingo or Canis lupus dingo or Canis dingo) is a type of feral dog native to Australia.

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Down Under (book)

Down Under is the British title of a 2000 travelogue book about Australia written by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson.

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Dreamworld Corroboree

Dreamworld Corroboree is a collection of wildlife attractions at the Dreamworld amusement park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

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Emu

The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich.

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Emu Heights, New South Wales

Emu Heights is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Environment of Australia

The Australian environment ranges from virtually pristine Antarctic territory and rainforests to degraded industrial areas of major cities.

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Fauna of Africa

The fauna of Africa, in its broader sense, is all the animals living in Africa and its surrounding seas and islands.

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Fauna of Asia

All the animals living in Asia and its surrounding seas and islands are considered the fauna of Asia.

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Fauna of Europe

The fauna of Europe is all the animals living in Europe and its surrounding seas and islands.

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Fauna of the Australian Capital Territory

The fauna of the Australian Capital Territory includes representatives from most major Australian animal groups.

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Fauna of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

The terrestrial fauna of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands is unsurprisingly depauperate, because of the small land area of the islands, their lack of diverse habitats, and their isolation from large land-masses.

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Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat

The fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat, or fawn-footed melomys (Melomys cervinipes) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

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Federation architecture

Federation architecture is the architectural style in Australia that was prevalent from around 1890 to 1915.

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First voyage of James Cook

The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS ''Endeavour'', from 1768 to 1771.

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Flora and fauna of Tasmania

The biodiversity of Tasmania is of exceptional biological and paleoecological interest.

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Forests of Australia

Australia has many forests of importance due to significant features, despite being one of the driest continents.

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Frank Allan

Francis Erskine "Frank" Allan (2 December 1849 – 9 February 1917) was an Australian cricketer who represented Victoria in first-class intercolonial matches and made one Test appearance for Australia.

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Georgina Sweet

Georgina Sweet (22 January 1875 – 1 January 1946) was an Australian zoologist and women's rights activist.

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Hard Quiz

Hard Quiz is an Australian television comedy quiz show, which premiered on ABC on 19 October 2016.

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Index of Australia-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to Australia.

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Invasive species in Australia

Invasive species are a serious threat to the native biodiversity of Australia and are an ongoing cost to Australian agriculture.

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Irena Sibley

Irena Sibley (16 June 1943 – 29 March 2009), born Irena Justina Pauliukonis, was an Australian artist, writer, illustrator of children's books, and art teacher.

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Jandakot Airport

Jandakot Airport is an Australian general aviation airport located in Jandakot, Western Australia.

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Katherine Belov

Professor Katherine (Kathy) Belov (born 1973) is an Australian geneticist, professor of comparative genomics in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Pro Vice Chancellor of Global Engagement at the University of Sydney.

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Klytie Pate

Klytie Pate (20 October 1912 – 10 June 2010) was an Australian studio potter who emerged as an innovator in the use of unusual glazes and the extensive incising, piercing and ornamentation of earthenware pottery.

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Koala

The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus, or, inaccurately, koala bear) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia.

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Land clearing in Australia

Land clearing in Australia describes the removal of native vegetation and deforestation in Australia.

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List of bats of Australia

This is the list of bats of Australia,Churchill, S. (2008) Australian bats, Allen & Unwin, Sydney a sub-list of the list of mammals of Australia.

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List of controversial video games

This is a list of video games considered controversial.

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List of extinct animals of Australia

Following is a list of Australian animal extinctions from 1788 to the present.

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List of introduced fish in Australia

Due to its geographical situation and isolation Australia has distinct fish fauna, including many endemic species.

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List of mammals of Australia

A total of 379 species of mammals have been recorded in Australia and surrounding continental waters; 357 indigenous and 22 introduced.

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List of marine molluscs of Australia

Marine molluscs of Australia are a part of the molluscan fauna of Australia.

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List of non-marine molluscs of Australia

This is a list of the non-marine molluscs of the country of Australia.

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Macrotis

Bilbies, or rabbit-bandicoots, Unabridged are desert-dwelling marsupial omnivores; they are members of the order Peramelemorphia.

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Maribyrnong River

The Maribyrnong River is a perennial river of the Port Phillip catchment, located in the northwestern suburbs of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Mary Howitt

Mary Howitt (12 March 1799 – 30 January 1888) was an English poet, and author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly.

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National Reserve System

Australia's National Reserve System (NRS) is a network of more than 10,000 Commonwealth plus state and territory protected areas which, in combination, on a national scale, protect more than (greater than 17% of the continent's) unique biodiversity and most significant ecological landscapes for future generations.

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Natural history of Australia

The natural history of Australia has been shaped by the geological evolution of the Australian continent from Gondwana and the changes in global climate over geological time.

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Nature Notebook

Nature Notebook is an Australian television series which aired in 1958 on ABC.

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NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service

WIRES Wildlife Rescue (NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service) is the largest wildlife rescue & rehabilitation charity in Australia.

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Outline of Australia

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Australia: Australia refers to both the continent of Australia and to the Commonwealth of Australia, the sovereign country.

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Outline of Oceania

The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to Oceania.

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Phalangeriformes

Phalangeriformes is a suborder of any of about 70 small- to medium-sized arboreal marsupial species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi (and introduced to New Zealand and China).

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Platypus

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania.

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Postage stamps and postal history of Australia

This is an overview of the postage stamps and postal history of Australia.

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Quaternary extinction event

The Quaternary period saw the extinctions of numerous predominantly megafaunal species, which resulted in a collapse in faunal density and diversity, and the extinction of key ecological strata across the globe.

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Rakali

Hydromys chrysogaster, commonly known as rakali, rabe or water-rat, is an Australian native rodent first described in 1804.

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Razorback (film)

Razorback is a 1984 Australian natural horror film written by Everett De Roche, based on Peter Brennan's novel, and directed by Russell Mulcahy.

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Red kangaroo

The red kangaroo (Macropus rufus) is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest terrestrial mammal native to Australia, and the largest extant marsupial.

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Riverview Gold Cup

The Riverview Gold Cup Regatta is a rowing regatta with limited club events and mainly school crew events, held annually by Saint Ignatius' College at Riverview, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Rosford Street Reserve

Rosford Street Reserve, or Rosford Reserve, is an urban park and nature reserve situated in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Salinity in Australia

Soil salinity and dryland salinity are two problems degrading the environment of Australia.

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Shoalhaven Zoo

Shoalhaven Zoo, formerly the Nowra Animal Park, is an animal park on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia.

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Short-beaked echidna

The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of four living species of echidna and the only member of the genus Tachyglossus.

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Spiders of Australia

Australia has some highly venomous spiders, including the Sydney Funnel-web, its relatives in the family Hexathelidae, and the Redback Spider, whose bites can be extremely painful and have historically been linked with deaths in medical records.

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Survival Island 3

Survival Island 3: Australia Story was an iOS and Android game created by Kristina Fedenkova of NIL Entertainment, notorious for its blatant violence and racism against Australian Aboriginals.

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Tambo River (Victoria)

The Tambo River or Berrawan is a perennial river of the Mitchell River catchment, located in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Tasmanian devil

The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.

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Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish

The Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi), also called Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster, is the largest freshwater invertebrate in the world.

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The Mammals of Australia

The Mammals of Australia is a three-volume work written and published by John Gould between 1845–63.

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Threatened fauna of Australia

Threatened fauna of Australia are those species and subspecies of birds, fish, frogs, insects, mammals, molluscs, crustaceans and reptiles to be found in Australia that are in danger of becoming extinct.

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Thylacine

The thylacine (or, also; Thylacinus cynocephalus) was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times.

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Totally Wild

Totally Wild is an Australian children's television series.

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Tree-kangaroo

Tree-kangaroos are marsupials of the genus Dendrolagus, adapted for arboreal locomotion.

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Trust for Nature

Trust for Nature is a not-for-profit organisation in the Australian state of Victoria which protects native plants and wildlife in cooperation with private landowners.

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University of Sydney Quadrangle

The Quadrangle is a prominent sandstone building located within the University of Sydney Camperdown Campus.

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Warrandyte State Park

Warrandyte State Park is a state park, located in Warrandyte, east of Melbourne, Victoria on the banks of the Yarra River and surroundings.

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Waterfall Gully, South Australia

Waterfall Gully is an eastern suburb of the South Australian capital city of Adelaide.

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Western Treatment Plant

The Western Treatment Plant (formerly the Metropolitan Sewage Farm or, more commonly, the Werribee Sewage Farm) of Melbourne Water, is a sewage treatment plant in Cocoroc, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne’s central business district, on the coast of Port Phillip Bay.

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Wetherill Park Nature Reserve

Wetherill Park Nature Reserve, also called Wetherill Park Reserve, is an urban park and a nature reserve situated in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson

Dr Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (26 November 1809 in Stralsund – 18 December 1848 in Berlin) was a trained medical doctor and a German entomologist.

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Willie wagtail

The willie (or willy) wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys) is a passerine bird native to Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Eastern Indonesia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna_of_Australia

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