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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 492–504.
Published: 01 May 2020
... provide a case study to demonstrate how these approaches are being used to better understand the threatened Tasmanian devil in the landscape, and to support the species’ conservation. Scat analysis enables us to quantify the genetic diversity of remote populations, where trapping is logistically...
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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 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.040
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-8-1
... (AECs). Our research, which was stopped, used proximity sensing radiocollars to obtain information on disease transmission important for managing a novel contagious cancer that is threatening the Tasmanian devil with extinction. Important lessons include the need for a governance structure of AECs...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.042
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 487–491.
Published: 01 May 2020
... devils introduced to an offshore island (Elspeth Mclennan, University of Sydney) What we can do with poo: studying the gut microbiome of the endangered Tasmanian devil (Rowena Chong, University of Sydney) Using passive acoustic recording and automated call identification to survey koalas in the southern...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 510–513.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Following the fourth session of the forum, we held a question and answer session facilitated by Paul Willis. The presentations covered by this plenary session were: What can we do with poo: genetic analysis of scat samples to inform the conversation Tasmanian Devil? (Catherine Grueber et al...
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Australian Zoologist (2012) 36 (1): 75–92.
Published: 07 September 2012
..., and its consideration as an influential factor on the distribution and population dynamics of extant marsupi-carnivores. It also practically demonstrates the obvious potential for disease to have been involved in megafaunal extinctions in the past. Thylacine Tasmanian devil marsupi-carnivores...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (2): 238–244.
Published: 16 September 2014
... in disease-ravaged Tasmanian devil populations, PNAS, 105 (29), pp. 10023-27. Life-history change in disease-ravaged Tasmanian devil populations PNAS 105 10023 27 Le Souef, A. S., Burrell, H. & Troughton, E. le G. 1926. The Wild Animals of Australasia: embracing the mammals of New Guinea...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (1): 74–79.
Published: 01 October 2020
... Stephen Sleightholme (private collection). The Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart was internationally renowned for its display of Thylacines and Tasmanian devils. The zoo was opened to the public in 1895 by Mrs. Mary Grant Roberts, who ran it as a private concern in the gardens of her home at Sandy Bay until her...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (3): 480–512.
Published: 01 September 2018
...] and description, together with that of the Tasmanian devil (Didelphis ursina)7, to Sir Joseph Banks in London: I take the liberty of transmitting to you drawings and descriptions from the life of two animals of the genus Didelphis, natives of this country, which I believe in every aspect new, at least I have...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 358–366.
Published: 28 October 2021
... seem to favour dingoes having native rather than alien impacts on prey. Dingo impacts on native species were probably not always so benign. Dingoes are linked to the extinction of Tasmanian devils Sarcophilis harrisii, Thylacines, also called Tasmanian Tigers Thylacinus cynocephalus and the Tasmanian...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 188–193.
Published: 01 January 2018
... questioned by Agardy et al. (2003), these matters have received relatively little recent attention. While progress has been made towards the MPA target, Devillers et al. (2014) observed that the majority of the percentage coverage of MPAs consists of residual areas, very large, remote, little used or little...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 298–321.
Published: 30 September 2020
... devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) were extinct on the Australian mainland but remained secure in dingo-free Tasmania. Did the dingo contribute to the mainland extinctions of these two species? As discussed above, the dating of dingo remains suggests an arrival time 3300 3400 years before present, whereas...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (4): 459–470.
Published: 20 October 2011
..., India, South America and south-east Asia. But once she started seriously collecting and displaying native mammals, she readily established interactive relationships with favoured charges, particularly the wombats, thylacines and devils. She exhibited 34 species of mammals, including virtually all...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 181–186.
Published: 17 March 2014
...., 1997. Ecological impacts of introduced honey bees. Quart. Rev. Biol. 72: 275-97. Ecological impacts of introduced honey bees Quart. Rev. Biol. 72 275 97 Deville, A. and Harding, R., 1997. Applying the Precautionary Principle. Federation Press: Sydney. Applying the Precautionary Principle...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 505–509.
Published: 01 May 2020
... sequencing technology eugenii) (Renfree et al. 2011) and Tasmanian Devil and computing power are making genomic scale analysis (Sarcophilus harrisii) (Miller et al. 2011, Murchison et al. and the utilisation of low quality DNA samples (e.g. skin 2012, Zang et al. 2013) and more recently the thylacine...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (3): 455–469.
Published: 12 April 2024
... undated, it can be deduced by dates recorded on either side of this entry that this specimen was entered into the register sometime between 1891 and 1895. Three Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) skulls with the collection locality listed only as Tasmania were entered into the register at the same...
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