... of threatened species. Can we enhance a walk through a flying-fox roost to improve perceptions of a maligned animal? A concept proposal leveraging modern technologies for an interactive virtual experience Matthew Mo1* and Nicholas J. Colman2 1 NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water...

...? The answer to this question is ultimately determined by the ethical beliefs of the human population. It is ultimately a question emanating from the interface between humans and wildlife, a collision between emotion and pragmatism, it is a matter of perception. This is clearly a first world problem, a modern...

...Carolynn L. Smith ABSTRACT Humans began the transformation of wild jungle fowl into modern day chickens over 8,000 years ago. Over the past 70 years, chickens have become an increasingly important economic and dietary stable throughout the world. There are now over 20 billion chickens on farms...

...Michael Murphy The modern known distribution of the New Holland Mouse Pseudomys novaehollandiae (Waterhouse, 1843) (Muridae: Rodentia) in coastal and near-coastal southeastern Australia excludes historical and subfossil records on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range. A recent record from...

...Daniel Lunney; Lyndall Dawson EDITORIAL The scope of modern zoology One of the most interesting aspects of editing the Australian Zoologist is the scope of the subject matter submitted for publication. This edition presents a good example. In the first four papers we move from a whale trapped...

... Journal of Ecology 22; 57-67. Rainfall, groundwater and refuges: Predicting extinctions of Australian tropical mammal species Australian Journal of Ecology 22 57 67 Burbidge, A. A., and McKenzie, N. L. 1989. Patterns in the modern decline of Western Australia's vertebrate fauna: causes...

...J. Harris; I. Gynther; T. Eyre; R. Goldingay; M. Mathieson Reliable modern records of the Eastern Pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus in Queensland were collated from various sources (including databases and previous reports) and a map of potential C. nanus habitat was generated based on an analysis...

...Barry W. Brook; Stephen R. Sleightholme; Cameron R. Campbell; Ivan Jarić; Jessie C. Buettel ABSTRACT The Thylacine or ‘Tasmanian tiger’ ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ), an iconic canid-like marsupial predator and last member of its taxonomic family (Thylacinidae) to have survived to modern times...

...Paula Pupune; Ilagi Puana; John Allen; Daniel Kelly; Amrita Ronnachit ABSTRACT Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has the potential to reverse gains made in modern medicine and seriously jeopardize the lives of people and animals from infections that were once readily treatable (FAO/OIE 2015). Adopting...

...Matthew Mo; Katarina Bonatakis ABSTRACT Drones are a modern alternative to manned aircraft for aerial surveys, however approaching wildlife with drones may still cause disturbance. Understanding the factors influencing animal responses to drone flights is fundamental for informing guidance...

...) and a simplistic handling of the complex evolutionary relationship between wolves, dingoes and domestic dogs. I explore the relationship of dingoes to village dogs, modern breed dogs and wolves using genome-wide SNP data and discuss the implications of these findings to the ongoing debate about dingo identity...

... for all ancient and modern dog breeds, their hybrids and wild-living derivatives. It is important to highlight that correct taxonomy is an important part of on-ground conservation and management of wildlife. However, the taxonomy used as a basis for management decisions needs to be based on a consistent...

... about wild dogs? Anne Kerle (Kerle Environmental) - The eastern grey kangaroo: a modern conservation dilemma. Tanja Strive and Tarnya Cox (CSIRO Health & Biosecurity) - Lethal biological control of rabbits - Recent public concerns around the most powerful tool available for landscape scale...

... significant threats to the biota include: changed fire regimes; exotic predators, diseases and herbivores; and drought and climate change. Conservation reserves in the region were originally chosen on aesthetic appeal, often aligning poorly to modern CAR (comprehensive, adequate and representative) criteria...

... and reduced longevity so much so that the World Health Organization has labelled meat a carcinogen. Modern meat production depends on intensive animal production and the feeding of crops to animals, commonly known as “factory farming” or, more formally, “Industrial Farm Animal Production” (IFAP...

...Jessica Sparkes; Guy Ballard; Peter J.S. Fleming; Wendy Brown ABSTRACT Biophilia, our inherent love of living things, is a major driver of the modern conservation ethic worldwide. Australians are particularly fond of wildlife and consequently, our fauna are key to our national image. As a nation...

... been well documented, there is little comparable information relating to avian prey. Using published lists of avian prey and skeletal material collected from a modern Macroderma roost, this study examined the range of bird species eaten by this bat. From the characteristics of these birds, biases...

... is provided. Faunal and environmental changes over the last 25 000 000 years in the Riversleigh region are identified and changes in Australia's rain forest mammal communities over the same period are discussed. Evidence for the origin of Australia's modern mammal groups from ancestors now known to have lived...

... are not uncommon in south-western Queensland, unconfirmed reports from the mid 1990s of “ football-sized wallabies bouncing off the dingo fence ” by kangaroo shooters operating there, throw the 1885 records into a modern context worthy of investigation. 60 June 2005AustralianZoologist volume 33 (1...