... of injuries, was compiled on 136 collected bats. The sex ratio was strongly skewed towards females (1:1.73), of which 54 (65%) were lactating at the time.Thirteen of these were shot while carrying their dependent young, while 41 neonates would have been left behind in the camp to die. Hence, the total...

... the financial burdens of providing rescue and rehabilitation services to injured wildlife. Efforts to reduce injury risks Since 2006, the Tolga Bat Hospital in Atherton, Queensland, has coordinated the Wildlife Friendly Fencing project (Maclean 2011), which has raised public awareness of the impacts of barbed...

... in defending themselves, thus reducing potential injury to the bat. This could be particularly important with larger birds with strong bills and claws, such as the young Pied Butcherbird Cracticw nigrogularis recorded by Schulz (1986). Old or weak birds might also be expected to form a disproportionate amount...

... injuries on these bats and only the poor state of their gums and teeth could be regarded as possible contributing factors to their deaths. The colony of 29 S.fiuiumtris at Bdghtview represents the largest colony recorded for this species. Although few records of roosting behaviour and colony sizes...

... issues involving the transmission, or possibility of transmission, of serious viral diseases by these large bats. Such issues require informed public discussion. It is the joint responsibility of science/medical professionals and journalists to ensure that such discussion occurs. Introduction...

.... This initiative demonstrated the value of corporate support for assisting volunteers, in particular alleviating the financial burdens of providing rescue and rehabilitation services to injured wildlife. Efforts to reduce injury risks Since 2006, the Tolga Bat Hospital in Atherton, Queensland, has coordinated...

..., images and audiences. Pine Forge Press, Thousand Oaks, California, USA. Media/Society: industries, images and audiences Divljan, A., Parry-Jones, K. and Eby, P. 2011. Deaths and injuries to Grey-headed Flying-foxes, Pteropus poliocephalus shot at an orchard near Sydney, New South Wales...

...M. V. Ellis; J. M. Smith ELLIS, M. V., WILLIAMS, C. R. AND WILSON, P., 1989. Extension to the known range of Gould's Long-eared bat Nyctophilus gouldi Tomes, 1858 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in New South Wales. Aust. Zool. 25: 79-82. Extension to the known range of Gould's Long...

... South Wales (NSW). The Grey-headed Flyingfox is a large, highly mobile bat endemic to the temperate and subtropical regions of eastern and south-eastern Australia from the mid-coast of Queensland to Adelaide, South Australia (Roberts et al. 2012; Westcott et al. 2015). In May 2001, the NSW Scientific...

... authors admit to having been diving and swimming for decades with no serious injuries. Common sense should be used especially when diving or swimming in remote waters, which includes much of Western Australia. While concentrating on WA, much of what is written is applicable to other parts of Australia...

... animals Figure 1. Native animals in the wildlife rehabilitation sector s temporary care. (A) Common Brush-tailed The Code of Practice for Injured, Sick and Orphaned Possums Trichosurus vulpecula recovering from injuries. Protected Fauna (OEH 2011) sets out the standards (B) An immobile Masked Lapwing...

... projects, while maximising the outcomes of scant research and conservation funding. © 2020 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2020 automated telemetry bat insect migration Motus movement ecology telemetry tracking technology small animal shorebird songbird water bird 2020 379...

... prejudices toward bats (Lunney and Moon 2011). (Eby and Law 2008). Winter and spring are usually the Residents close to camps are generally tolerant when leanest periods of nectar production (Parry-Jones and flying-foxes are in small numbers, but tensions build when Augee 1991a; Eby 1995). These seasonal...

... Landscape-scale monitoring for forest fauna is achievable: a case study using remote sensors, artificial intelligence and robust analytics Leroy Gonsalves, Brad Law and Chris Slade 526 Normalising flying-foxes: a bold vision for improving the public perceptions of our largest and most conspicuous bats...

... public perceptions of flying-foxes also stem from their camps occurring close to human settlements and the associated impacts on those communities (Currey et al. 2018; Mo et al. 2020a), and flying-foxes being natural reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens such as Australian bat lyssavirus (Lu et al. 2017; May...

... and Abundance of Animals 31 54 Baker, J.R. and Baker, Z., 1936. The seasons in a tropical rain forest (New Hebrides). Pt. 3. Fruit Bats (Pteropodidae). Journal of the Linnean. Society (Zoology). 40: 123-142. The seasons in a tropical rain forest (New Hebrides). Pt. 3. Fruit Bats (Pteropodidae...

... The discovery of the remains of the last Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) Robert N. Paddle, Kathryn M. Medlock97 Diurnal tree-roosting by Eastern Horseshoe Bats Rhinolophus megaphyllus Christopher P. Slade and David M. Power 109 Rottnest Island Peafowl Pavo cristatus - a colourful history comes...

... by a Florida Keys Giant Centipede Scolopendra alternans. The centipede initially held onto grass stems but was eventually dislodged and dragged about six metres by the toad. The centipede inflicted serious (probably, fatal) injury on the toad but released the amphibian after the centipede s head encountered...