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Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (2): 143–149.
Published: 17 March 2014
.... dentata . Again, tadpole number was significantly lower in aquaria housing G. holbrooki than in those without these fish, and pondweed influenced L. dentata's survival only on the final 72-hour census. Field experiments were conducted by placing 30 L. aurea tadpoles in 1.5 x 0.6 x 0.6 m screened cages...
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Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (3): 373–380.
Published: 04 June 2013
... the relative dollar cost for six survey methods including both observational (active search, bird counts) and trapping (cage, box, funnel and pitfall traps) techniques. In our case study, despite six repeated surveys, with a total estimated cost in excess of $500 000, sampling for six of the 15 targeted fauna...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (3): 351–376.
Published: 17 March 2014
.... These include stowaways, ethnotramps and incidentals. Ethnotramps include economically and culturally favoured animals such as Rusa Deer Cervus timorensis , Long-tailed Macaque Macaca fascicularis , and various civets, cuscuses, wallabies, cassowaries and wild-caught cage birds that are commonly carried around...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (2): 365–375.
Published: 17 March 2014
... varied greatly regarding ease of handling, aggression, odour, property damaging behaviour and fecundity. Management history of individual animals affected responses: quolls kept as house pets (rather than permanently caged) elicited the most positive responses on the suitability of quolls as pets...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (4): 459–470.
Published: 20 October 2011
... by Norman Laird, has suggested that these Burrell photographs probably involve a manipulated museum mount, and were likely taken at Burrell's property at Manilla, New South Wales. Freeman's suggestion is challenged through an analysis of the caged environment and the thylacine, as contained...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.006
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2
... Program which utilised physical removal activities directed by a ‘Judas fish’ program, carp drafting devices named ‘William's Carp Separation Cages’ designed to remove carp as they migrate through fishways, a novel molecular genetic approach, ‘Daughterless Carp Gene Technology’ designed to integrate...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.010
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2
... predation; and the endangered population of long-nosed bandicoots Peramales nasuta , vulnerable to competition from black rats. Caging experiments using artificial seedling patches in recently burnt areas showed that rabbits or long-nosed bandicoots rather than black rats were the biggest grazing threat...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.054
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-4-1
.... The microclimate of camps needs more research, as does the seeding of new areas with ground litter containing flying-fox droppings, and the location of orphan release cages set up in prospective new camp sites. Nevertheless, it is apparent that in the future it will make more sense to manage flying-fox camps where...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 44 (1): 231–251.
Published: 09 May 2024
...) and medium (72 x 32 x 31 cm) sized cage traps. The eight bushland sites were established as part of a larger black rat removal experiment exploring the role of black rats as hosts of ticks. As such, at four (removal) sites, captured black rats were euthanised by injection of 0.5ml of 50% sodium...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (4): 562–581.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the movement of the spring mechanism may be impeded by bait/faecal material. Flagging tape marked the location of traps and the scuff marks often indicated the specific location where they had been previously set. Two medium sized (0.2 x 0.2 x 0.55 m) cage traps were set along each transect. One was located...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 39 (1): 43–51.
Published: 01 December 2017
...), the introduction of artificial lighting to indoor coups (Scanes 2006), induced molting (Hurwitz et al. 1998), and selective breeding. In the modern system, approximately 90% of the commercial egg-laying hens are housed in cage systems. In the conventional cage system, each bird gets 400-600cm2 of unrestricted...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 25 (1): 6–10.
Published: 17 March 2014
... with a mixture of peanut butter, rolled oats and peanut oil. 2. Two wire cage traps approximately 2 0 ~ 2 0 x 5 0 cm, baited with the peanut butter mixture as in 1. 3. Pitfall traps consisting of four plastic buckets 70 cm deep by 35 cm in diamater. A 10 mx35 cm drift fence of fibreglass fly wire was pegged...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 97–108.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the thylacine s cage. After initial establishment, three full-time keepers were employed, and these were later joined by some part-time staff, who assisted in the management of the 78 cages, as well as the zoo grounds (Reserves Committee, minutes 28/8/1935). In November 1930 Arthur Reid lost the sight in his...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 175–180.
Published: 17 March 2014
... female seemed otherwise unaffected and was able to climb adequately with both forelimbs. Mother and young were maintained in a bedroom (Fig. 1) in an open cage. At 0700 and 0900 hours they were given some milk and fruit. At noon mother and young were transported outside in a cage, where they stayed...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 24 (2): 89–93.
Published: 17 March 2014
... Zoologist, Vol. 24(2) 89 Table 1: Trapping information for surveys of mammal movements through culverts (A to E) and tunnels (3, 4 and 5). e represents Elliott traps for small mammals; c represents cage traps for larger mammals. Culvert/Tunnell Trapping Dates Trap-nights Other Methods (a) Culverts A (b...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 747–749.
Published: 20 October 2011
... by fasteners. Once the trap wall is erected, the cage trap is inserted through the opening (Fig. 2) and a hessian bag placed over it to cover the top and sides, but otherwise leaving the distal end uncovered (Fig. 3). Development of a lightweight, portable trap for capturing free-ranging Koalas Phascolarctos...