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...Graham Fulton Two different hunting methods, used by domestic Dogs Canis familiaris , are described involving attacks on an Orange-footed Scrubfowl Megapodius reinwardt and Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae . The two observations were recorded in widely different habitats: one occurred...

...Walter Boles The Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas is a large (mean mass 150 g) predatory bat of subtropical and tropical Australia. It carries its vertebrate prey to roost caves to be eaten and where remains are dropped and accumulate. Whereas the attack and feeding methods of M. gigas on mammals has...

...Warren Schofield The impact of predation by dingoes/wild dogs on livestock creates extreme amounts of stress, angst and anger within rural communities. How do we return to a well-managed landscape and once again have positive communication between stakeholders? Wild dogs attack livestock. Dingoes...

... in NSW from 1973 to 2020 to describe trends in admissions across NSW. A total of 18,039 koala admission records were collated from 1973 to 2020. Koalas were rescued due to disease, motor vehicle collision, dog attacks, unsuitable environment, bushfire, orphaning, and other reasons. However, the reasons...

... and dog attacks across the koala s range by analysing the survival rates of koalas admitted to shelters in this state. Methods Koala records were obtained from the Ballarat Residents Koala Survey (Schlagloth, Callaghan and Santamaria 2004), shelters in Ballarat and the Mornington Peninsula...

... was toad invasion has varied across tropical Australia, and attacked and killed (e.g. swallowed by the crocodile). specifically why the crocodile population in Lake Argyle has been unaffected by toad arrival. Geographic survey of injury incidence Methods To compare the incidence of injuries in cane toads...

... to other methods (Centre for Invasive Species Solutions 2016). Importantly, expenditure on lethal control is not always commensurate with losses of livestock. For example, during 2016 2017 across all 16 Wild Dog Management Zones in the state of Victoria, there were a reported 288 wild dog/dingo attacks...

...Ruchira Somaweera Crocodylus johnstoni territorial behaviour oppertunistic predator ABC News. 2003. Croc attacks Kakadu tour guide. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2003/09/26/954703.htm Anonymous. 2007. Attack could be 'freshie'. The Kimberley Echo...

... alternative to plastic bags, giving shelter for trapped animals from rain and exposure while reducing the likelihood of trap attack by birds. 1 Address for correspondence Peter Banks, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney NSW, Australia 2006, Email: peter.banks...

... Snake is a dealer of death (p.234), Death Adders are villainous looking (p.233), while the Coastal Taipan, Oxyuranus scutellatus, will attack without provocation (p.234). He does, however, recognise that the Red-Bellied 104 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 44 (1) 2024 Protecting the unpopular ones...

... in successful attacks, which may suggest that this attack technique is mostly used by inexperienced juveniles or as a secondary method. McNabb (1996), however, recorded a few tail-chases carried out by mature individuals as the primary attack technique. To date, no successful tail-chases by Powerful Owls have...

... derived from them.1 A recent study (Allena & West 2013) proposed that wild dog attacks are a critical factor in the decline of Australia s sheep flock. They predicted that without a range of control methods the rangeland sheep industry would disappear within 30 40 years.2 A small part of those programs...

...Mike Letnic; Patrick Carmody; John Burke Crocodylus porosus is a species that is potentially dangerous to humans and there are numerous records of fatal attacks by this species on humans. Since the Northern Territory population of C. porosus was declared a protected species in 1971...

... they have attacked livestock or preyed on endangered wildlife. This might suggest that the public oppose lethal methods for killing dingoes in principle, but support killing dingoes where justification for doing so is provided. This suggestion is supported by low public approval of taking no action...

... the influence of tadpole body size (10 mm. 15 mm and 20 mm). predator prey ratio (1 : 1, 1 :2 and 1 :4) and nutritional status of the predator on the level of predation by G. holbrooki on tadpoles of Limnodynasfas peronii . Unfed fish attacked all three size classes of tadpoles without any significant...

... of adolescent dingoes which may be more prone to attacking stock. On Noonbah, we only have stable families of Dingoes, all of which appear visually to be pure-breed Dingoes. My experience, and those of many other cattle producers (like David Pollock) is that stable Dingo packs rarely or never attack our older...

... and Rohlf 1981). Observations were also made with regard to the nature and extent of damage done to the eggs, fry and tadpoles as well as the attack methods used by Gambusia and the other fish to deal with tadpoles of different sizes. RESULTS Three-way interactions among the independent variables were...