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\nThe authors conclude that ‘geophagy is most likely to be found in areas with high temperatures that are naturally low in sodium’. And that these factors were the motivators : mineral content of the grass at different times of years affected lick visits, reproductive status – lactating females, and temperatures : high temperatures – more sodium loss from the arm licking behaviour the roos use to keep cool.
\nBut it’s funny – in central Victoria we have really long cold winters. Are we in a particularly low sodium area? Is this a western Victorian peculiarity? Perhaps this should be reported to a kangaroo ecologist! Thanks Sharon and Dave – top work! Pdf of the article available on request. : )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ah the wondrous benefits of the naturalist who gets to know his or her patch very well indeed! I had the privilege of heading out on a bush walk with Sharon and Dave in the Yandoit area last Saturday; with a host of other local walkers, kids and dogs. Last year at a birthday barbecue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanyaloos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanyaloos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanyaloos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanyaloos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanyaloos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tanyaloos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/tanyaloos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanyaloos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanyaloos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanyaloos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanyaloos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}