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... initiated a collaborative research trial with Western Sydney University and Campbelltown City Council to investigate the effects of sprinklers on roost microclimate and behavioural responses in the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus . A sprinkler system for two treatment sites within a flying-fox...

... captured in January. The Brisbane area is generally devoid of cave-forming geology, so the population of R. megaphyllus in BFP is considered to be strongly dependent on these artificial underground features. Continued use of artificial roosts by the Eastern Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus megaphyllus Grey, 1834...

...Michael Guppy; Peter Fullagar ABSTRACT The vocalisations of the Grey Shrikethrush are loud, clear, pleasing to the ear, and a stand-out feature of the bird song in areas in which they occur. However, data on these vocalisations in the literature are sparse, as are any attempts at either...

...Matthew Mo; Kylie Coutts-McClelland; Vanessa Wilson; Ron Haering; Lorraine Oliver; Linda Bell; Daniel Lunney ABSTRACT The Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus was listed as a vulnerable species by both the New South Wales (NSW) and Australian Governments in 2001. The NSW Government has...

...Matthew Mo; Kylie Coutts-McClelland; Vanessa Wilson; Ron Haering; Lorraine Oliver; Linda Bell; Daniel Lunney ABSTRACT Managing the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus as a species vulnerable to extinction in New South Wales (NSW) is complicated by contentious issues arising from flying...

...Damian R. Michael; Talia Schlen; Dana Lanceman ABSTRACT Feeding observations in free-ranging nocturnal snakes are rare, primarily due to their cryptic behaviour and activity patterns. We describe a feeding observation in a free-ranging Grey Snake Hemiaspis damelii in the Murrumbidgee catchment...

...Matthew Mo; Lorraine Oliver; Kylie Coutts-McClelland; Nathaly Jones; Joshua Gregory ABSTRACT The management of a Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus camp in Berry, New South Wales, is a case study of the challenges faced by local councils and state environment agencies trying to address...

...Matthew Mo; Mike Roache; Deb Lenson; Heidi Thomson; Mitchell Jarvis; Natalie Foster; Angie Radford; Lorraine Oliver; Damon L. Oliver; Joss Bentley ABSTRACT Flying-fox camps in urban areas are a contentious wildlife management issue. Since 2012, Grey-headed Flying-foxes Pteropus poliocephalus have...

...Damian R. Michael; Gaye Bourke; Dena Paris; Skye Wassens *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] © 2020 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2020 Elapidae environmental water floodplain wetlands Yanga National Park A range extension for the endangered Grey...

...Anne Kerle ABSTRACT The interaction between Eastern Grey Kangaroos ( Macropus giganteus ) and humans in peri-urban locations is one that excites great passion between conflicting views. Are the kangaroos a problem pest or a diminishing icon? And where conflicts occur between kangaroos, threatened...

...Jai M. Green-Barber; Julie M. Old ABSTRACT Many species have adapted their behaviour to survive in anthropogenically developed environments (hereafter referred to as developed). Eastern grey kangaroos Macropus giganteus are common in developed areas, however very few studies have evaluated...

...Peggy Eby; Greg Richards; Linda Collins; Kerryn Parry-Jones The Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus has an expansive range. However, the species actually occupies a relatively restricted and continuously changing habitat area, which is primarily defined by irregular patterns of nectar...

...Linda Christesen; John Nelson The vocalisations emitted by adult and juvenile Grey-headed Flying-foxes Pteropus poliocephalus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) within daytime camps and night nurseries were studied using audio and video data. The calls were differentiated via discriminant analysis...

...D.J. Shelly Data obtained from two surveys conducted in the winters of 1966 and 1987 show that, for the study area, centred on the town of Murrundi in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, non-sex.based commercial shooting of the Eastern Grey Kangaroo Macropus giganteus did not greatly alter...

...Graeme Coulson; Ruth Coulson The eastern grey kangaroo, Macropus giganteus , and the western grey kangaroo, M. fuliginosus , occur over an extensive zone of sympatry, but there has been no record of hybridisation between these sibling species in the field. The two species can be reliably...

...Anja Divljan; Kerryn Parry-Jones; Peggy Eby For several years, animal welfare concerns have been raised over the practice of shooting Grey-headed Flying-foxes (GHFF) in commercial fruit orchards in Australia, and the role of government agencies in licensing the kill. In NSW the practice is poorly...

...Marie-France Boissonneault The general lack of knowledge in mainstream Anglo-Australian society and popular Western media pertaining to the different shark species has led to the depletion of placid species such as the Grey Nurse Shark Carcharias taurus . This paper examines the depiction of sharks...