Panel 9: Links and Further Information There is far more information available on all the issues and animals touched on in this exhibition. For further information email the Living Museum on lmwbriak@livingmuseum.org.au or simply put any of the words in the text (eg...
Panel 8: The Food Web Generally animals eat things that are smaller than themselves. Herbivores eat vegetable matter, carnivores eat other animals, omnivores eat both vegetable matter and other animals. In the Estuary environment their are also animals known as filter...
Panel 7: Water Quality In the last few decades a method for measuring fresh water quality and habitat has been developed overseas and in Australia using macroinvertebrates or the small creatures that live in rivers, streams and ponds like mayfly and dragonfly nymphs,...
Panel 6: Aboriginal Names The local Aboriginal groups who occupied these lands for thousands of years would have known these animals intimately. With this in mind we have shown the local Aboriginal names for animals where possible. These are either from the Woiwurrung...
Panel 5: Pobblebonk The exhibition has been given the name Pobblebonk, which is the name of one of the several frog species once common to the Maribyrnong estuary and other similar areas in Victoria. The existence and survival of frogs is considered a measure of the...
Panel 4: The Floodplain The river in the lower Maribyrnong Valley estuary used to flood regularly reviving and nourishing associated wetlands. Since European settlement the floodplain and the river have been substantially altered. Wetlands have been drained or filled...
