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Use of a combined drainage/fauna underpass by the Spotted-tailed Quoll, Dasyurus maculatus

Radika J. Michniewicz, Jodie Danvers

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (2): 283–286.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.048

Published: 04 December 2020

... Upgrade in eastern NSW automated cameras were used to monitor a number of underpasses. The first monitoring period (autumn 2018) recorded photographic evidence of a Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus using a combined underpass on day 61 of a 63-night monitoring period. To our knowledge...

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Book Chapter

The largest surviving marsupial carnivore on mainland Australia: the Tiger or Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus , a nationally threatened, forest-dependent species

By Chris Belcher

Book: Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2004

10.7882/FS.2004.034

EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9

... characteristics required by tiger quolls. There is reasonably compelling evidence that 1080 poison baiting can cause substantial reductions in tiger quoll populations and poison baiting is likely to be at least partly responsible for the species' decline. There are no data to support competition or predation...

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Conservation of the Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus : a conceptual and applied model with particular reference to populations of the endangered D. m. gracilis

By Scott Burnett, Helene Marsh

Book: Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2004

10.7882/FS.2004.035

EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9

... The northern Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus gracilis is Endangered (QNCA 1994; EPBC Act 1999). This study therefore aims to develop a model for the species recovery in north Queensland. Due to the threatened status of D. m. maculatus in all mainland states in which it occurs...

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Why are there so many Spotted-tailed Quolls Dasyurus maculatus in parts of north-eastern New South Wales?

A. Glen, C. Dickman

Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 711–718.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2011.023

Published: 20 October 2011

...A. Glen; C. Dickman This paper explores the question of why the endangered Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus remains abundant in parts of north-eastern New South Wales, while populations in many other areas have declined or disappeared. Based on a two-year field study of a high-density...

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Yes, killing is sometimes essential for conservation.

Peter J. S. Fleming, Guy Ballard

Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 5–12.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2018.037

Published: 01 January 2019

... the scientific method, proposing that killing is not essential (the null hypothesis) and offering two working alternatives. The hypotheses are addressed with three conservation case studies of increasing likelihood that killing is essential. Examining spotted-tailed quoll, rabbit-affected ecosystems and New...

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A survey of the attributes and requirements of quolls that may affect their suitability as household pets

Meri Oakwood, Paul Hopwood

Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (2): 365–375.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1999.038

Published: 17 March 2014

.... Quoll Pet Dasyuridae Dasyurus Northern Quoll Eastern Quoll Western Quoll Chuditch Spotted-tailed Quoll Bonnin, M., 1967. Observations on Dasyurus viverrinus. SA Nat. 42: 29-31. Observations on Dasyurus viverrinus SA Nat. 42 29 31 Edgar, R. and Belcher, C., 1995. Spotted...

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Responses of four Critical Weight Range (CWR) marsupials to the odours of native and introduced predators

Benjamin Russell, Peter Banks

Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (2): 217–222.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2005.018

Published: 17 March 2014

..., these CWR mammals were prey for native marsupial predators, such as the Tiger Quoll Dasyurus maculatus (also widely known as the Spotted-tailed Quoll), to which they would have been just as vulnerable. So it is unclear why these CWR prey were seemingly so vulnerable to predation by introduced Red Foxes...

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A dangerous idea in action: the hegemony of endangered species legislation and how it hinders biodiversity conservation

Daniel Lunney

Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 289–307.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.015

Published: 01 June 2017

... used by Justice Stein, but no written reasons were required for the inclusion of species. Some of the fauna of special concern that Justice Stein drew upon included the koala Phascolarctos cinereus and the Spotted- tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus¸ species relevant to the Chaelundi case. If there had...

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Issue Information

Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (2): fmclv–fmclviii.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.011

Published: 09 April 2021

... animals and the volunteer wildlife rehabilitation sector in New South Wales,Australia Ron Haering,Vanessa Wilson, Annie Zhuo and Peter Stathis 254 Use of a combined drainage/fauna underpass by the Spotted-tailed Quoll, Dasyurus maculatus Radika J. Michniewicz, and Jodie Danvers 283 New Fellows...

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Dangerous Ideas in Zoology: Plenary session 3

Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 488.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2016.038

Published: 01 June 2017

... Fleming, Piers Thomas and Catie Gowen) Rabies is coming. What will happen to fauna conservation when Australians are afraid of wildlife? (Jessica Sparkes, University of New England, Guy Ballard and Peter Fleming) Spotted-tailed quolls aren t threatened by 1080 baiting: they depend on it (Trent Forge...

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A call to scale up biodiversity monitoring from idiosyncratic, small-scale programmes to coordinated, comprehensive and continuous monitoring across large scales

Matt W. Hayward, Stephan Chalup, Jamil Khan, Alex Callen, Kaya Klop-Toker ...

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 514–533.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.004

Published: 01 March 2022

... Mountain Pygmy-possum Northern Quoll, Digul, Wijingadda, Wiminji Spotted-tailed Quoll (North Queensland),Yarri Spot-tailed Quoll, Spottedtail Quoll,Tiger Quoll (SE mainland population) Eastern Quoll, Luaner Arnhem Leaf-nosed Bat Mammals Mammals Mammals Mammals Mammals Mammals Mammals Sound Vision Status 1...

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A statement on the cultural importance of the dingo

Oliver Costello, Noel Webster, Dan Morgan

Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 296–297.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.028

Published: 31 August 2021

.... They suppress the abundance or activity of other pest animals such as cats and foxes and may help protect smaller mammals. Baiting can also impact other native apex predators that eat the toxic baits, such as the spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus). We fear that baiting will lead to severe impacts (e.g...

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Description of four newly discovered Thylacine pouch young and a comparison with Boardman (1945)

Stephen Sleightholme, Jan Robovský, Vladimír Vohralík

Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (2): 232–238.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2012.027

Published: 07 February 2013

... or spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), and the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), with estimates varying from 21 days (Le Souef & Burrell 1926, p.319; Paddle 2000, p.228) to 35 days (Guiler 1985, pp.73- 74; Dixon, 1989, p.14; Guiler & Godard 1998, p.20). The female thylacine possessed four teats...

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A survey for threatened fauna in south-western New South Wales

Rick Webster, Chris Belcher, David Leslie

Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (2): 214–228.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2003.003

Published: 17 March 2014

... and four nights respectively. Ten pitfall traps connected by drift fences were also established along the mallee tran sects and checked daily for 10 consecutive days. Predator scats were collected and analysed for these species. ii) Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus. Fifteen hair tubes (10...

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Journal Articles

Eradication of Black Rats Rattus rattus L. from Bowen Island, Jervis Bay NSW

Paul Meek, Richard Hawksby, Athol Ardler, Matt Hudson, Kersten Tuckey

Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 560–568.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2011.008

Published: 20 October 2011

... and Cambridge UK,. Turning the Tide: the eradication of invasive species 219 225 Murray, A. 2005. A new low-cost hair tube design for the detection of the spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus in south-eastern Australia. Australian Mammalogy 27: 81-84. A new low-cost hair tube design...

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Plenary Session 4 on the value of protected areas for fauna conservation

Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 397–408.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.042

Published: 01 January 2018

... competition with another species in the first stage I think we can engage - well, in doing this already we ve and it increased when on its own. So you don t need to changed attitudes about spotted-tail quolls, as an example, have those problems between species, especially when and quolls in general and also...

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Citizen Science and Cryptozoology, data received from listeners during 18 years of wildlife talkback on ABC North Coast New South Wales Local Radio.

Gary Opit

Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 430–456.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2016.008

Published: 01 June 2017

... with the number of reports received for each species. It was theorised that the majority of reports received would be on species that would attract the most attention, and this occurred. Over 18 years the largest number of reports were 25 on carpet python, followed by 20 reports on spotted-tailed quoll, 18...

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Notes on status, distribution and diet of Northern Quoll Dasyurus hallucatus in the Mackay-Bowen area, mideastern Queensland

A. B. Pollock

Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (2): 388–395.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1999.040

Published: 17 March 2014

... of Spotted-tail Quoll D. maculatus, however, the scats of the latter are usually larger (Triggs 1996). Dasyurus macz~lalus are very rare o r absent within the study area (Ingram and Raven 1991; Burnett 1993). T h e two species can he reliably distinguished by the internal structure of the grooming hairs i n...

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A retrospective review of the breeding season of the thylacine; Guiler revisited

Stephen Sleightholme, Cameron Campbell

Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (2): 238–244.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.020

Published: 16 September 2014

....75) states: It is assumed from all accounts that thylacines breed once a year and this is in line with the general pattern of reproduction in the Dasyures . Educated comparisons have been made in the past with the thylacine s smaller cousins the Spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus...

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Mammals of the Coastal Forests near Bega, New South Wales I. Survey

Daniel Lunney, John Barker

Australian Zoologist (2014) 23 (2): 19–28.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1986.008

Published: 17 March 2014

.... The Southern Brown Bandicoot lsoodon obesulus was recorded only once by its occur- rence in a Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus scat. It is now considered a rare species in NSW (Ashby etal. in press). The Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus was detected only in scats. Three other species of macro...

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