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  • Seasonal roosts and foraging movements of the black flying fox Pteropus alecto in the Northern Territory: resource tracking in a landscape mosaic.

    Arnhem Land tropical savanna 2008

  • My hair is torn away; I am scorched, flayed, impaled! alecto.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Seize him, serpents, and now another lash! alecto.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Jack DumbacherA female shining flycatcher Myiagra alecto caught along a creek above Saidowai.

    NYT > Home Page By JACK DUMBACHER 2011

  • Damn, he was soo right, right … he makes you cry in your gruel. you know alecto i just know we are going to be good friends soon

    Think Progress 2009

  • NEOCONS suffer from collectivism. gopny Says: alecto / hoodathunk now make nice. hoodathunk is obviously a closeted faggot and alecto is a butch dyke. but your one big happy RAINBOW.

    Think Progress 2009

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