| 31. | If one is discerning enough, the stick insect and leaf mantis may be found well-camouflaged among the vegetation.
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| 32. | In Australia many kinds of stick insects are kept as pets including the Strong, Goliath, Spiny and Children's.
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| 33. | It is found throughout New Zealand, although it is less frequently reported than " common " stick insect species.
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| 34. | It contains the only known wild population of the Lord Howe Island stick insect, formerly thought to be extinct.
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| 35. | This stick insect is restricted to the Poor Knights Islands, some 22 kilometres from the eastern coast of Aorangi.
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| 36. | Stick insects are often kept in captivity : almost 300 species have been reared in laboratories or as pets.
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| 37. | Surprisingly, two species previously considered extinct have been rediscovered, the Lord Howe Island stick insect and the Bavarian pine vole.
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| 38. | The best known of the stick insects is the Indian or laboratory stick insect ( " Carausius morosus " ).
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| 39. | The cockroach and the stick insect are the two most commonly used insect species; both have been neurophysiologically extensively studied.
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| 40. | It was described as new species of stick insect in 2014 in the journal " European Journal of Taxonomy ".
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