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[Kim Holburn]

In WA there is a plant that damages underground cables:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Parasitic_plant

> Western Australian Christmas tree (Nuytsia floribunda) sometimes damages underground cables. It mistakes the cables for host roots and tries to parasitize them using its sclerenchymatic guillotine.


> http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~b_morpho/nuytsia_backenzahn.html



On 2011/Apr/13, at 9:05 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> On 13/04/2011 8:54 AM, David Boxall wrote
>> The PMG abandoned overhead cabling for good reasons.
> 
> Cockatoos suspected of breaking Telstra fibre
> Ry Crozier
> Apr 13, 2011 6:30 AM
> iTnews
> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/254265,cockatoos-suspected-of-breaking-telstra-fibre.aspx
> 
> Cockie wanna cable?
> 
> Telstra has fingered prolific numbers of cockatoos as the potential 
> culprits behind damage to a temporary fibre cable put in place after 
> floods in the Kimberley region last month.
> 
> 
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> Regards
> brd
> 
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> Canberra Australia
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