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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 0001
10.7882/RZSNSW.1990.017
EISBN: 0-949324-29-9
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 0001
10.7882/RZSNSW.1990.007
EISBN: 0-949324-29-9
Journal Articles
Journal Articles
Book Chapter
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
... and by field survey. A rank-scoring approach was used to elucidate the potential impacts of eutherian carnivores on D. m. gracilis . These data are presented as a conceptual model for the species' conservation, based on the pressure-state-response model developed by the OECD and used in Australian State...
Book Chapter
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
... Dasyurus maculatus maculatus is a forest-dependent species, the largest surviving marsupial carnivore on mainland Australia and the sole surviving member of its genus in south-east mainland Australia. It is classified as ‘Vulnerable’ nationally. The species' ecology, and the factors considered...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2012) 36 (1): 75–92.
Published: 07 September 2012
... at the turn of the twentieth century, of an epidemic disease in thylacines and other marsupi-carnivores. For the first time, detailed symptoms and statistics of the disease are presented, as recorded by museum staff, and zoological-garden curators and veterinarians. It is argued that the effects...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 550–567.
Published: 27 October 2020
...-based approaches to carnivore management in the context of conflicts with humans are limited and highlight a growing need to develop new initiatives involving a broad spectrum of interested parties. To help identify management opportunities provided by using a SES applied to human-canid conflict, we...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 491–510.
Published: 25 August 2020
...Bradley P. Smith; Robert G. Appleby; Neil R. Jordan Where wild carnivores such as the Australian dingo interact with and impact on livestock enterprises, lethal control and landscape-scale exclusion are commonly employed. However, interest in alternative non-lethal management approaches has...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2016) 38 (2): 183–191.
Published: 01 January 2016
... in historic roosting sites. Helicopter surveys located another 24 potential Ghost Bat sites but none contained evidence of occupation by these carnivorous bats. A number of cave features that were considered to be important to Ghost Bats and Cane Toads were recorded and samples of Ghost Bat droppings were...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 307–314.
Published: 14 October 2011
...Hamish McCallum; Menna Jones As the largest surviving marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian devil is an iconic species. A disfiguring and invariably fatal facial cancer, first reported in 1996, has now spread across most of the range of the devil, leading to population declines of up to 90...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2010
10.7882/FS.2010.019
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-3-6
... honeyeaters, large carnivores and exotics are the species that have historically been the most tolerant of urbanisation. The Birds in Backyards project is a research, education and conservation program directed towards the birds that live where people live. Part of the project involves the facilitation...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.021
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
... for specific groups of animals including primates, carnivores, Australian mammals, dolphins and circus animals, and by the routine inspection of facilities. Significant challenges that have been faced include the holding of koalas by visitors, the use of animals in circuses and the euthanasia of healthy...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 276–280.
Published: 02 October 2023
... 2.21 mm (range 28.14 43.14). This value fits well with the inter-puncture distances measured on the deceased Red Fox. The largest (adult male) inter-canine distance of Australia s second largest terrestrial carnivore, the Red Fox, is narrower (~26.3 1.7 mm from >600 unknown age specimens from North...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 374–387.
Published: 14 September 2020
... conservation, lethal control, total grazing pressure, trophic cascade, wild dog. DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.018 Introduction Large carnivores are some of the most iconic species on Earth. However, many of them are particularly vulnerable to extinction and a great deal of effort is spent...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 711–718.
Published: 20 October 2011
... 829 Belcher, C. A. 2000. Ecology of the Tiger Quoll, Dasyurus maculatus, in Southeast Australia. PhD thesis. Deakin University, Geelong. Ecology of the Tiger Quoll, Dasyurus maculatus, in Southeast Australia Belcher, C. A. 2004. The largest surviving marsupial carnivore on mainland...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 492–504.
Published: 01 May 2020
... provide specific examples of how our results are being integrated into conservation strategy for the devil. Key words: carnivores, conservation management, diet, ecology, faecal sampling, genetic diversity, metabarcoding, microbiome, population biology, virome DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.005 Scat...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 291–295.
Published: 28 October 2021
.... Given that there is a wide range of views on how to manage dingoes, and wild dogs, the day s program was arranged so that the papers reflected the divergent views on this controversial carnivore. Importantly, the day included cultural perspectives on the dingo, a view that had been previously overlooked...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 467–479.
Published: 14 July 2020
... areas (e.g., Gunns Limited 2010). Globally, attitudes towards large carnivores are changing, with management in some regions shifting from persecution to conservation (Bruskotter et al. 2007, Chapron et al. 2014). This is partly due to recognition of the important role that large carnivores can play...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (2): 365–375.
Published: 17 March 2014
...-tailed Quoll, Dasyurus maculates. Pp. 67-69 in The Mammals of Australia ed by R. Strahan. Reed: Sydney. The Mammals of Australia 67 69 Fleay, D., 1945. Native cats at home: breeding carnivorous marsupials. Wild Life 7: 233-37. Native cats at home: breeding carnivorous marsupials Wild Life...