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...Tayla A Green; Pat A Hutchings; Michael C Calver ABSTRACT Australia's natural history museums, in common with similar institutions globally, face budget scrutiny. Research, which is less visible to the public than exhibitions, is vulnerable. To provide context to discussions of the value of museum...

... the Australian Museum (AM) collection database and mapped. Records were analysed according to the number of species, genera and families present and over 2,159 species recorded. We provide a brief description of the geological history and geomorphology of the Gamay and how the coastline has been modified since...

... populations, their natural history, the history of translocations, current zoo and wildlife sanctuary holdings in Australia and across the globe. It discusses the importance of safe havens and other management prescriptions. © 2025 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2025 --> Email...

... on Queensland islands, both naturally occurring and translocated, and discusses their persistence, current status, environments and threats. Seventeen islands are identified as having a history of koalas with 13 of these islands having once been part of the koala’s natural range. Two of these islands...

...Dorian Moro Book Review Book Review Island Jewels: the natural history of Western Australia s islands Ian Abbott and Andrew A Burbidge. 2022. Book Reality Experience, Leschenault,Western Australia. Available from selected bookshops and online, price varies Published: 30 October 2023 DOI...

... and became synonymous with visits to the island. Peafowl eventually became too much of a nuisance and in 2009 the population was reduced by the Rottnest Island Authority leaving just male birds. In April 2022 the last peafowl died. We present the history of peafowl on Rottnest Island and describe how...

... benefitted Noisy Miners and exacerbated declines in woodland-dependent small birds. Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala environmental history overabundant natives landscape transformation Native to Nemesis: a cultural and environmental history of the Noisy Miner 1788 - 2019 Richard Beggs Fenner...

..., these traditions have not been recognized outside of Aboriginal communities, and this loss of cultural heritage comes at great cost to the Australian environment, biodiversity and the health and preservation of vital resources. Water dingo dogs Australian history cultural keystone species environmental...

... witnesses to a Thylacine capture have enabled us to piece together the life history of one of the last captive specimens. This account raises important questions over the accepted sequencing of the final two Thylacines on display at the Hobart Zoo. Thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus Beaumaris Zoo...

... in perspectives about the dingo has widened as more has been discovered about this divisive and still enigmatic animal. Here, we show that current arguments about the dingo have deep origins by tracing the history of debate about the taxon’s name, when dingoes arrived in Australia, whether they are native...

...Daniel Lunney ABSTRACT This paper a) gives an historical view of national parks and other protected areas since the 19th century, b) gives a history of national parks and nature reserves in NSW, c) shows how recent has been the recognition that fauna conservation depends upon protected areas, d...

... or critically endangered. For about half freshwater crab species (628 species) basic biology and ecology data is insufficient to adequately assess their future. In Australia, while seven species have been recorded (Davie 2002), a further 15 to 20 Unravelling life history of the Inland Freshwater Crab...

...) indicate their subject to being the Red-whiskered Bulbul. This paper synthesises information on the Red-whiskered Bulbul in Australia. The aims of this review were: to provide background on global introductions of the Red-whiskered Bulbul; to examine available information on the history...

...Jill Bough This paper gives an overview of research into the history and use of donkeys in Australia. Although the role that other draught animals played in the opening up and economy of the colony has been recorded, that of the donkey has not been systematically researched before. The first three...

...Ronald Strahan The Origin and Early History of The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Ronald Strahan The history of our Society has already been sketched by Jack Prince in The First Hundred Years, published in 1979. I have found this a useful source of facts but the book is very sub...

...Glenn Shea The external morphology and osteology of the Land Mullet Egernia major is described based on ail available material in Australian museum collections and extant type material. The complex nomenclatural history of this species is discussed. Multivariate analysis of variation in external...

...Ronald Strahan Later History of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Ronald Strahan, FRZS The Australian Museum In the first art of this overview (Strahan RELATIONS WITH TARONGA ZOO 1992), I dealt with events between 1852 and 1912. In brief, the attempt to form a zoological...

...Dianne Vavryn Barmoya Reunion Committee, 1994. Back to Barmoya Reunion. Hoy, N. T., 1993. Establishment of Trees on Saline Waterlogged Soils. Unpub. Masters Thesis, central Queensland, 132 pp. Early history of flying foxes in the Barmoya district near Rockhampton, central...

... ability to survive the presence of toads postmetamorphosis. Predicting the ecological impacts of an invasive species on native taxa with biphasic life histories (such as most anurans) thus requires information on interactions in both aquatic and terrestrial environments. The expression of phenotypic...

..., were conducted and resulted in the discovery of 10 rough-scaled pythons (i.e. approximately one snake capture per 35 person days in the field: Weigel and Russell 1993; Weigel 2005a; Natural history of the rough-scaled python, Morelia carinata (Serpentes: Pythonidae) Robert Porter1, John Weigel2...