00:00So we've got two specimens of the Lodau stick insect, collected on Lodau.
00:06So these are historical specimens.
00:09And then we've got some specimens that were sent to us by the Melbourne Zoo
00:14when they were rearing specimens from individuals collected on Bolt's Pyramid,
00:20which is the small island near Lodau, where the species was found again in 2001.
00:26They look a little bit different, and so for some time it was questioned
00:31whether they were indeed the same species, and it was the Lodau stick insect
00:35or something different, related but different.
00:39So a team of experts, including two scientists from the ANIC, from our collections,
00:45extracted DNA from these very two specimens that you can see here
00:49and compared the DNA with one extracted from the new specimens.
00:54And they match, so they are exactly the same species.
00:58It's just that different environments may have led to a slightly different morphology,
01:03but they are genetically the same.
01:05So we've got some two in a variety of species, so the activity with a particular disease.
01:11And those are not of them.
01:14So we've got a lot of species here, so we can get a lot of species.
01:16So we've got some species for children.
01:18So we can get a lot of species to the location of them.
01:21So let's see.
01:22So we've got the two species called the Lodau.
01:24So we've got some species called the Lodau.
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