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Patent no: 686542

Patent no: 683618

Patent no: 686542

1. A system when used to provide a nocturnal wildlife experience in tourism to a group of non-English language speaking participants, the system comprising:-

1. a first accessible and controlled wildlife confinement area containing selected nocturnally active wildlife in their natural state where the participants observe the nocturnal activity of the wildlife at close range and at night under supervised conditions;
2. a second accessible and controlled wildlife confinement area being adjacent to but separate from the first area and containing nocturnally active wildlife selected according to the wildlife's suitability for safe handling where the participants handle the wildlife at night under supervised controlled conditions;
3. a foreign language facility for communicating predetermined information in a language other than English to the participants about the particular wildlife being observed or handled in the respective confinement areas;
4. a wildlife supervision and control facility including a qualified wildlife handler for ensuring the safe conduct of the observation and handling of the particular wildlife in the second confinement area; and
5. a management system for selecting the particular wildlife to be observed in the first confinement area, the particular wildlife to be handled in the second confinement area and the information to be communicated via the foreign language facility.

2. A system for the provision of a nocturnal wildlife experience according to claim 1 where the wildlife are Australian animals the experience being enhanced by the provision of a meal to the participants, the meal including wild foodstuffs to complement the wildlife experience.

3. A system for the provision of a nocturnal wildlife experience according to claim 1 or claim 2 further including the provision of traditional aboriginal dance to entertain the participants.

Abstract

A system 10 showing each of the elements of a preferred system whereby a night time wildlife experience can be enjoyed by participants where the overall theme of the experience is of "wild Australiana". The key elements to the system are general observation of wildlife at 11 where the wildlife are confined to an area where they are accessible for the purposes of close range observation and secondly, to a second area at 12 where selected specific animals can be touched and handled at even closer proximity.

At 12 it is preferable that animals be made available so they can be touched and enjoyed with photographs and so forth being taken at this stage. To further enhance the "wild Australiana" theme of the experience, food can be served where details of elements of the food involving so called "bush tucker" is given at 13. At the same time or subsequent to, or even prior to the wild food experience native entertainment can be provided at 14.

A control system at 15 provides guidance for the delivery of the experience and includes the provision of mechanised transport at 16 for the aged as well as system guidelines for the actions of a guide and interpreter who can also be an animal handler at 17. In addition in the preferred form a second person is specified as the animal handler or supervisor at 18.

selecting a representative sample of plants from a plant population, the plants of which share a common origin and history;

1. quantitatively ascertaining whether said plants in said representative sample are in a relatively high stress tolerance phase or a relatively low stress tolerance phase according to a measurable characteristic of said plants in said sample which is indicative of said plants being in a relatively low or a relatively high stress tolerance phase:
2. where said plants in said sample are shown to be in a relatively high stress tolerance phase, selecting all said plants in said population as being substantially stress tolerant and setting them aside as being suitable to be subjected to said artificially induced stress; or
3. where said plants in said sample are shown to be in a relatively low stress tolerance phase, selecting all said plants in said population as being substantially stress intolerant and setting them aside as being unsuitable to be subjected to said artificially induced stress; and
4. where said population has been set aside as being in a relatively low stress tolerance phase then subjecting said population to a process adapted to artificially induce a relatively high stress tolerance phase in said population;
5. subsequently selecting a further representative sample from said population that has been subjected to said process adapted to artificially induce a relatively high stress tolerance phase;
6. quantitatively ascertaining whether said plants in said further representative sample have reached or have failed to reach an induced relatively high stress tolerance phase according to a measurable characteristic of said plants in said further representative sample which is indicative of a plant being in a relatively high or relatively low stress tolerance phase; and
7. where said plants in said further sample are shown to be in a relatively high stress tolerance phase selecting all said plants in said population as having been successfully artificially induced into a relatively high stress tolerance phase as being substantially stress tolerant and setting them aside as being suitable to be subjected to said artificially induced stress; or
8. where said plants in said further sample are shown to be in a relatively low stress tolerant phase, then repeatedly carry out steps (e) to (i) until said population has been set aside according to step (h) as being suitable to be subjected to said artificially induced stress.

2. A process according to claim 1 wherein said plants are strawberry plants.

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