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Care and Handling of Australian Native Animals: Emergency Care and Captive Management

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 0001

10.7882/CHANA.1990

EISBN: 0-949324-29-9

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Bird Handling Techniques

By R. Parrish, E. Notley

Book: Care and Handling of Australian Native Animals: Emergency Care and Captive Management

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 0001

10.7882/RZSNSW.1990.006

EISBN: 0-949324-29-9

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The Care and Handling of Orphaned Kangaroos

By Helen George

Book: Care and Handling of Australian Native Animals: Emergency Care and Captive Management

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 0001

10.7882/RZSNSW.1990.013

EISBN: 0-949324-29-9

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The ethical zoologist

By Daniel Lunney

Book: Ethics, Money and Politics

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 1998

10.7882/RZSNSW.1998c.014

EISBN: 0-9586085-0-4

... In their work with fauna and faunal habitats, zoologists face ethical issues concerning the handling of animals and decisions that affect their habitats. Zoologists are not alone in facing ethical choices, for it is clear from the print media that the topic of professional ethics in the work...

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A survey of the attributes and requirements of quolls that may affect their suitability as household pets

Meri Oakwood, Paul Hopwood

Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (2): 365–375.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1999.038

Published: 17 March 2014

...Meri Oakwood; Paul Hopwood A questionnaire, sent to scientists and wildlife attendants/carers known to have extensive experience handling quolls Dasyurus spp., was designed to assess those attributes end requirements of quolls which may affect their suitability as pets. Twenty people contributed...

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What is a dingo – origins, hybridisation and identity

Kylie M Cairns

Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 322–337.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.004

Published: 24 February 2021

...) and a simplistic handling of the complex evolutionary relationship between wolves, dingoes and domestic dogs. I explore the relationship of dingoes to village dogs, modern breed dogs and wolves using genome-wide SNP data and discuss the implications of these findings to the ongoing debate about dingo identity...

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Revision of the Atlas of New South Wales Wildlife

Murray Ellis

Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 59–64.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1992.014

Published: 17 March 2014

...Murray Ellis A revised computer-based wildlife inventory programme has been developed to aid the collation and mapping of fauna and flora information. Field data woks have been produced to facilitate the collection of significant records in a format that is easy to handle. Current maps...

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The harvest of wild birds for aviculture: an historical perspective on finch trapping in the Kimberley with special emphasis on the Gouldian Finch

Donald Franklin, Allan Burbidge, P. L. Dostine

Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 92–109.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1999.010

Published: 17 March 2014

... and policy framework in which the trade operated, trappers, capture, handling and marketing methods, and capture tallies. Reasonably accurate capture tallies are available from 1974. From then until 1986, over 280 000 finches of eleven species were caught and sold. The number of trappers declined by 50...

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Flying-fox management in Queensland: is it any different?

By Allan McKinnon, Jim Thompson, Greg Gordon

Book: Managing the Grey-headed Flying-fox: As a Threatened Species in NSW

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2002

10.7882/FS.2002.046

EISBN: 978-0-9586085-4-1

...”; there is a need to both protect flying-fox populations and the crops of fruit growers; and the emergence of Australian Bat Lyssavirus and other viruses has made handling bats a risk. The conservation status of the Grey-headed Flying-fox and the Spectacled Flying-fox is currently being reviewed by the Scientific...

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Clutch size, incubation and nestling periods, and age estimation of nestling Red-tailed Black Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus banksii escondidus in the Western Australian wheatbelt

Denis A Saunders, Ross B Cunningham

Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 37–46.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.004

Published: 07 February 2023

..., incubation and nestling periods, and describe two methods of aging nestling Red-tailed Black Cockatoos whose hatching dates are not known. The first is minimally-invasive, as it is based on observations of nestlings in their nest hollows, and does not require handling the nestlings. The other requires...

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A feeding observation in a free-ranging Grey Snake Hemiaspis damelii (Günther 1876) in the Murrumbidgee catchment, southern NSW

Damian R. Michael, Talia Schlen, Dana Lanceman

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (3): 811–815.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.011

Published: 20 April 2022

... maximum lengths of 45 mm and 50 mm SVL, respectively (Cogger 2014). Our observations suggests that small elapids can subdue and ingest relatively large frog species. Although we were not witness to the original strike, prey handling and ingestion time amounted to 40 minutes. Another anurophagous species...

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Food and movements of the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksi escondidus in the Western Australian wheatbelt

Denis A. Saunders

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (4): 960–971.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.040

Published: 21 October 2022

... or museum specimens collected, the contents of the crops were dried, contents identified, and seeds counted. Seed handling times As it became clear that Double Gee Emex australis seed was the major component of the birds diet, particular attention was paid to the time birds took feeding. The birds used two...

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Distinctive plumage patterns enable individual recognition of the Australian Magpie Cracticus tibicen

Ishini K. Kuruppu, Denis A. Saunders

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (4): 689–695.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.046

Published: 04 December 2020

..., streamers or a combination of these. However, in order to apply these devices, the animal must be captured and handled; a process not without risks to the animal and the handler, and possibly resulting in impacts on the animal s subsequent survival or behaviour. For example, Saunders (1988) found...

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On the transmssion of bat diseases by the media - a view from the trenches

Len Martin

Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (2): 298–315.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2003.014

Published: 17 March 2014

... regularly entered flying-fox camps and been sprayed with urine and faeces. Most have handled the bats, often without gloves (for manual dexterity) and are frequently scratched, bitten, and exposed to urine and faeces and aerosols thereof. C Tidemann (personal communication, 1996) with various volunteer...

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New Fellows of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW: Dr Bradley Law FRZS: Dr Bradley S. Law was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW at the Society’s Annual General Meeting in September 2021

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (1): 160–161.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.003

Published: 24 January 2022

..., he has served on various sub-committees over that time and, from first joining Council, he has been an indefatigable co-editor of the Society s journal, the Australian Zoologist. In that time he s handled hundreds of manuscripts and, with co-editors Dan Lunney and Martin Predavec, has helped to drive...

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A survey of veterinary professionals about their interactions with free-living native animals and the volunteer wildlife rehabilitation sector in New South Wales, Australia

Ron Haering, Vanessa Wilson, Annie Zhuo, Peter Stathis

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (2): 254–282.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.045

Published: 03 December 2020

... education was Not so useful to not at all useful in other skills such as species identification (58.3 handling (50.0 Knowing when dependent young have a reasonable chance of survival in rehabilitation (52.8%) and Performing complex surgery (54.2 Fewer (41.7%) said their formal education...

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Vocalisation and aggression in the Prickly Forest Skink Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae

Dave O'Connor

Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (2): 265–266.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2003.010

Published: 17 March 2014

...). Of these, only one species, E. amplus, has been observed vocalising in a situation that did not involve human handling. Eulamprus amplus is reported to vocalise both during handling and when engaged in intraspecific combat (Covacevich and McDonald 1980). As these ten species are capable of vocalising...

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Animal welfare and the killing of wildlife by captive bolt in Australia

Stephanie Hing, Jordan O. Hampton, Troy. J. Gibson

Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 170–180.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2018.035

Published: 01 January 2019

... the animal may subjectively experience the situation. The entire process of capture, handling and restraint prior to killing by captive bolt is likely to be a highly stressful experience (Micera et al. 2010). Physical characteristics Physical characteristics of an animal will affect whether captive bolt may...

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New Approaches to Zoology - Editors' Introduction

Catherine A. Herbert, Pat Hutchings, Brad Law, Ricky Spencer, Martin Predavec

Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 363.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.009

Published: 01 May 2020

... revolutionising the way we collect and facilitated the forum on the day. Paul Willis chaired analyse information, from crowd-sourced data collection the plenaries of the forum with adept handling of the and analysis in the form of Citizen Science, to the use discussions, thank you very much. of artificial...

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Observations of hunting attacks by the Powerful Owl Ninox strenua and an examination of search and attack techniques

Matthew Mo, Peter Hayler, David R. Waterhouse, Antonia Hayler

Australian Zoologist (2016) 38 (1): 52–58.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.028

Published: 01 January 2016

... attacks and nocturnal fauna without disturbing natural behaviours. handling of recently captured prey by Powerful Owls In contrast, some owls from the Northern Hemisphere observed as part of an ongoing monitoring program in forage during the day (Olsen 2011); consequently more southern Sydney (Mo...

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