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Volume 22, Number 18
15 September 2003

pp 4579-4875

Cover. Australian Noisy Miners, Manorina melanocephala, feeding amongst fruit of the Queen Palm. Noisy Miners range along the eastern coast of Australia. They breed cooperatively, and many helpers, usually males, contribute to feeding the young. The fleshy orange fruit of the Queen or Cocos Palm, Syagrus romanzoffiana, a native of South America but commonly planted in Australian gardens, is favoured by many animals, particularly fruit bats. Photographed in Sydney by Professor Ron Skurray, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia.

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