Wildlife Australia - Spring 2017

Bush kindy Citizen science Unlikely finds Guardian dogs SPRING 2017 VOL. 54 NO. 3 ...

First words I n 2014, we published an article on Bowerbird – a website for citizen science in Australia. That was back when ‘cro ...

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T he plane is small and loud, and it’s too noisy for us to talk. Conversation is hopeless, but when I glance over at Anne, her e ...

Paul, the office chose the white shark pic, which is probably for the best as it makes up more of the article content. Let’s kee ...

villagers on what sort of program was wanted, what was feasible given the remote location, and what the youth of the area aspire ...

In most cases, village schools in Papua New Guinea do not go beyond grade eight; only a small percentage of youth in Papua New G ...

W e’ve just arrived at the Neptune Islands at the mouth of the Spencer Gulf, some 27 km south of Cape Catastrophe, South Austral ...

White sharks eat a variety of finfish, other sharks, seals, sea lions, dolphins, whales, squid, crustaceans and sea birds. Juven ...

tours of 2–10 days. Tours operate 260 days per year, a regulatory measure (weather permitting), with participants boarding cage- ...

Direct exposure that forges a connection with wildlife can drive concern for sharks and motivate pro-conservation actions. The r ...

IMPERILLED BUT RESILIENT RED HOT LIST: FLAGSHIP 4 T he suburbs of Melbourne are expanding at an unbelievable rate. The 100-km st ...

I n the early 1990s, large dust clouds rolled in over the urban areas of this sprawling continent, their presence triggering muc ...

Just scratching the surface A few research groups in the southern states began to document earthworm fauna ‘on-farm’ in the late ...

REGENERATION AND PARTHENOGENESIS How do you know whether a worm is male or female? The simple answer is: it’s both. Worms are he ...

Q: What’s small and wriggly and prevents trains from running? A: The Portuguese millipede (Ommatoiulus moreleti). Since the 1970 ...

D awn coloured the sky as I drove up a steep 4WD track, ready for a day of fieldwork on Riversdale, a grazing property in northe ...

BANDICOOT BODYGUARDS Eastern barred bandicoots (Perameles gunnii) used to be widespread in Tasmania and western Victoria, even e ...

is accessible to the mainland, or perhaps accidentally becoming marooned after chasing foxes at low tide. On one occasion, the M ...

deterrent effect can provide real benefits, although it might be undesirable if an endangered species is involved. Livestock gua ...