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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2001
10.7882/FS.2001.002
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-2-7
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Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (4): 508–509.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... Selectivity is active around the garden bed and edge of the paved even possible at the intraspecific level of prey items. Greer area they showed no interest in worker ants and did not (2001) reported observations of seven Elegant Snake- attempt to approach the nest. eyed Skinks Cryptoblepharus pulcher preying...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (1): 26–32.
Published: 17 March 2014
... the ultimate in bizarre "put-downs". Johnno had always been an unlikely contender in the "elegant" member stakes. He would today be referred to as a rugged country boy. He and his friend Ernie Woods hailed from the famous birding Doonside area and he knew more about bird nesting than the rest of us put...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 29 (3-4): 255–257.
Published: 17 March 2014
... particularly useful as the book is peppered with figures of inward or outward spiralling lines which I had formerly admired for their geometric elegance instead of their intended function - ". . . to give insight into general processes . . ." Harvey and Gittleman follow with a chapter on the value...
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Australian Zoologist (2025)
Published: 03 April 2025
... model are likely to be described as weird or bizarre. This clickbait approach to popular science can have the same effect as casting all aspects of the deviation of monotremes from the therian model as primitive: it discourages thoughtful analysis and leads to an underappreciation of the elegance...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 25 (3): 88–90.
Published: 17 March 2014
.... Richardson Australian Government Publishing Service Best Reference Book "A very Elegant Animal - The Dingo" by Roland Breckwoldt Angus & Robertson Best Children's Book "Aldita and the Forest" by Thelma Catterwell, illustrated by Derrick Stone Houghton Mifflin Best Issue of a Zoological Periodical "Australian...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 267–271.
Published: 01 June 2017
... are not unimportant but indicate that ecosystem ecology has not yet matured as an area of robust science. Except for nutrient cycling and the laws of physics, there is no arithmetic of ecosystems to guide our studies into these complex systems. 3. Most ecological modeling is elegant, unrealistic, and untestable...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 627–632.
Published: 01 December 2018
... theories include the Evolutionary Species Concept (Simpson 1961), the Biological Species Concept (Mayr 1942; 1963), The Recognition Concept of Species (Paterson 1984; 1985) and the Cohesion Species Concept (Templeton 1986). These theories, though often elegant, are, however, difficult to apply to actual...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (4): 446–457.
Published: 17 March 2014
...: still a very elegant animal. Pp 5-9 in A Symposium on the Dingo, edited by C. R. Dickman Fascination of fur and feathers 456 December 2006 AustralianZoologist volume 33 (4) 457December 2006 AustralianZoologist volume 33 (4) and D. Lunney. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman, NSW Bulbeck...
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (4): 847–870.
Published: 09 May 2022
...; Kavanagh et al. 2017; Gonsalves et al. 2018; Skewes et al. 2020). Oedura elegans (Elegant Velvet Gecko): common and widespread in POF and SEF. Most records were animals found sheltering by day under loose bark on trees and fallen timber, particularly standing dead cypress pines. Also found active on ground...
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (3): 738–751.
Published: 01 March 2022
... species Leaf-scaled MH Critically endangered, listed marine species Olive DO Listed marine species Mosaic DO Listed marine species Western tur tleheaded AO, MH, OR Listed marine species Nor thwestern mangrove DO Listed marine species Czeblukovs/ fine spined DO or geometric Listed marine species Elegant DO...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (3): 432–442.
Published: 17 March 2014
.... 1988. A V q Elegant Animal: the Dingo. Angus and Robertson: Sydney Butlin, N.G. 1962. Distribution of the sheep population: preliminary statistical picture, 1860-1957. Pp. 281-307 in The Simple Fleece - Studies in the Australian Wool industry ed by J.A. Barnard. Melbourne Universitv Press: Melbourne...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 January 2019
... to cultured, from elemental to elegant, from superstitions to scientific, and from taking lives to saving lives it involves people, animals, the environment and society it impacts medicine, ethics, law, and societal issues. To fully appreciate the evolution of toxicology we need to address why we poison...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (2): 205–213.
Published: 30 September 2020
... collation and analyses of high quality monitoring data from Japan, Australia and New Zealand revealed catastrophic declines in the abundance of most species (Amano et al. 2010; Clemens et al. 2016; Studds et al. 2017). These analyses together with elegant mark-recapture / resighting analysis (Piersma et al...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 298–321.
Published: 30 September 2020
... for Australian Wool Innovation Ltd.: Canberra. Breckwoldt, R. 1988. A Very Elegant Animal: the Dingo. Angus & Robertson: North Ryde. Breckwoldt, R. 2001. The dingo: still a very elegant animal. Pp. 5-9 in A Symposium on the Dingo, edited by C. R. Dickman and D. Lunney. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 593–607.
Published: 16 October 2020
.../ publicthreatenedlist.pl Explore Sahul Time 2007. Monash University online resource: Viewed 18 April 2020 httpsahultime.monash.edu.au/ Breckwoldt, R. 1988. A very elegant animal : the dingo / Roland Breckwoldt. North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson. Cairns, K. M., & Wilton, A. N. 2016. New insights on the history...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (2): 272–289.
Published: 01 December 2019
... (Gruber 1982; Shaw 1792). As is clear from the full title of the Miscellany (The Naturalists Miscellany: containing accurate and elegant coloured figures of the most curious and beautiful productions of nature; with descriptions in Latin and English in the Linnaean manner) Shaw was a Linnaean, and while...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (2): 329–357.
Published: 01 December 2019
... presentation. My heartfelt thanks goes to Newsouth Books for taking on this besotted and whale fixated midnight writer with whom the team carefully honed 30 years of whale research into selected experiences, re-encountered in The Secret Life of Whales. Understanding the elegant patterns of our natural world...