I tried dethorn and it was not accepted. Google finds many entries for dethorning roses, albeit sometimes with a hyphen, but also without.

I never took any notice of who produced the TV series when it first aired (or the repeats and encores) on ABC TV, but looking it up it is a BBC/National Geographic production. It seems it first appeared on the BBC before it did in OZ.

Some in the cities may not have but we have them at the zoos. The one on my website is close to the city centre (8kms out). It appeared in 2011 and hung around for a couple of years, but I haven't seen it recently, only a wallaby. A major bike path goes through the reserve and a cyclist reported bumping into it one evening. There are also tiger snakes, and I have seen a wombat there.

For birds we have rainbow lorikeets, magpies, currawongs. cockatoos (yellow-tailed black, and white crested) mudlarks, red browed finches, blue wrens. I've seen one king parrot - mostly bright crimson. I'm jealous of the golf course next door which has several large water storages and lots of water birds.

As for road kill, Tasmania is the place; but it's indicative of lots more wildlife - they don't have foxes. There is a suggestion that the Tassie devils have stopped them establishing by eating the cubs.

The Parsis practised aerial burials. There were towers of silence in Bombay (Mumbai) where Parsi dead were placed as it was believed that this did not defile the earth as did burial or cremation. There are problems with the practice now in that there has been a large drop in numbers of vultures over the sub-continent. I saw a doco on the practice in Nepal? where the bodies were dismembered and the bones crushed and covered with ghee? to make them more palatable to the vultures.

I think Parsis (meaning Persians) had their origins in Persia and Zoroastrianism.

On a more prosaic subject, why is 'theirs' acceptable in Chi? Isn't that just a plural of their?

http://www.vinc.net.au/

http://www.u3aboxhill.com.au/

http://www.brbreserve.org

http://www.herringisland.org

http://www.angelfire.com/art/antechinus/

The first 2 I inherited the layout and a virus in the U3A site, the others I wrote. Herring Island I wrote in August 1997.

Glad you didn't say it's backward Stanley!

Les303, you seem to have taken to google and the gospel of youtube like a duck to water or a Queenslander to XXXX!

Oui is how one spells yes in French, pronounced 'we'. Qui means who, pronounced 'key'.

C'est ta classe de français pour aujourd'hui.

Spanish is a much nicer language.