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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.048
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-4-1
... Flying-foxes. HSI believes that culling and other negative reinforcement methods are inappropriate for managing flying-fox issues. We need to become more sophisticated in our response to human-animal conflicts and less reliant on lethal methods. Our focus has been on stopping an animal's innate response...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (4): 738–742.
Published: 02 February 2021
... Toad near Larrimah, Northern Territory. At 2015 h on 26 April 2005, near Humpty Doo, a centipede that was seized by a subadult Cane Toad retaliated and killed its attacker (but did not consume it). These observations reinforce the fact that, contrary to popular opinion, Cane Toads are vulnerable...
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Australian Zoologist (2016) 38 (2): 161–170.
Published: 01 January 2016
... found in highly degraded habitat reinforcing similar observations for this species in the literature. Field data collected during this study and the resulting habitat information will add to the knowledge of the distribution and habitat preferences of this threatened species. This study also provides...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2003
10.7882/FS.2003.015
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-6-5
... and a large amount of the surface epifauna removed. It is essential to link excellent science and policy with immense public support, and this endeavour is being supported by some high quality journalism. The papers published here reinforce the need for active marine conservation, both of coastal and offshore...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (3): 491–492.
Published: 08 December 2023
... feasible to a European readership which does not endure Australia s repeated moral panic over deaths from shark attack, and thus the reinforcement of the societal pathology identified by Winton. But this makes it more important rather than less to give this book the broadly-based attention it deserves...
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Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (2): 242–246.
Published: 07 February 2013
... volume 36 (2)2012 243 whole animal biology during their undergraduate and graduate training and reinforcing what also should be being taught at school. However we know this is either not occurring, or only rarely. Similar comments are made by botanists (Adam 2010). If we do not know the major components...
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Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (3): 423.
Published: 14 April 2015
... naturalists. The discovery of its peculiar seeking books for the Society s library. With gifts from creatures reinforced the emerging appreciation of members, by 1849 the collection held 250 volumes. As Tasmania s biological novelty. However, this book s interest the Society grew, its acquisitions became...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 534–543.
Published: 20 October 2011
..., within these 75 articles the majority utilised high profile names and experts on the subject, such as research scientists, to underline the validity of their article. Overall, an overwhelming majority of the 137 news articles used high profile names and experts to reinforce the position being highlighted...
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Australian Zoologist (2023)
Published: 12 April 2023
... for this change to occur. Identifying populations vulnerable to the most severe outcomes of snakebite envenoming at a subnational level is important for prioritising new data collection and collation, reinforcing envenoming treatment, existing health-care systems, and deploying currently available and future...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (4): 575–584.
Published: 01 June 2020
...% of the participants reinforced that wildlife conservation is a personal interest which prompted action to participate in wildlife conservation. Less than half of all participants (41%) stated that they had volunteered with a wildlife conservation organisation or participated in wildlife conservation activities...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 52–66.
Published: 14 March 2023
...-kills in the Nebo area. Road-kills usually occur between dusk and dawn. Most koalas live near roads because that is where most large trees are, yet it is a double-edged sword because of the danger from vehicles. This reinforces the need for more underpasses and fences, but they and their maintenance...
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (3): 702–718.
Published: 24 January 2022
... and wildlife. I guess it really just reinforced how vulnerable Australian wildlife is. Those bushfires were at a scale that no one had ever seen before. And it was quite obvious. They were catastrophic. Media imagery Ten of the 13 interviewees mentioned koala footage or photos when asked about the wildlife...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (2): 214–219.
Published: 11 November 2020
... reinforces the important point that we cannot infer the overall impact of an invasive species (or indeed, of any threatening process) from the discovery of a few dead animals (see Ujvari et al. 2011b for an example with Frillneck Lizards, Chlamydosaurus kingii). There is no doubt that the invasion of Cane...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (3): 464–468.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of this study reinforced that animals can move relatively long distances and also quite quickly. These data include remote tracking from radio-telemetry towers and trapping location information associated with the capture of animals prior to fitting radio-collars (see Lindenmayer and Meggs 1996). Our finding...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 39 (1): 81–84.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Australia from rivers and wetlands into irrigation projects (O Gorman 2012), a diversion that is itself powerfully reinforced by the monological vision that sees all water not put to such use as wasted . But alongside these ecological relationships farms are, of course, webbed into social, economic...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (2): 246–251.
Published: 17 March 2014
... and resources, a pattern reinforced by intervening areas of inappropriate habitat (Schodde 1982; Ford 1987). The Spinifexbird is one of the few monotypic Eyrean bird species, despite a clear habitat specificity and a history of range expansion and contraction (Ford and Parker 1974). Its existence in a series...
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Australian Zoologist (2024)
Published: 24 January 2024
..., including predators, emphasises the role of flying-foxes in natural ecosystems, with the additional function of reinforcing the learning of factual information through activities. For example, find-a-word exercises emphasise keywords that relate to factual information about flying-foxes, join-the-dot...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (2): 193–200.
Published: 16 September 2014
... their applications and for responsibilities to be reinforced. This is something which is encouraged for postgraduate and staff applications with the view to educate and reduce tension when revisions are required. The committee also does not see its role as editing and reworking applications that are perceived...