Taxonomy
Australia
3 entries
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Book II
Ford Falcon XC Cobra
A falcon and a cobra on the same car, in a country with more venomous snakes than any other
Four hundred were built to clear a stock of leftover hardtop bodies. Ford Australia painted them white with blue stripes, numbered them on the…
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Book VI
Bolwell Nagari
It sounds exactly like the Sanskrit for serpent. It is not the Sanskrit for serpent.
Bolwell, an Australian glass-fibre specialist, named its Ford V8 sports car Nagari. Every reader of Indian mythology stops dead at that word. The…
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Book VII
Taipan — unclaimed
The most toxic venom ever measured, delivered by an animal that would rather you left
The inland taipan holds the record for the most toxic venom of any snake measured, and has never been reliably recorded as killing anyone, because…