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Is the fruit you eat flying-fox friendly? The effects of orchard electrocution grids on Australian flying-foxes ( Pteropus spp., Megachiroptera)

By L. Martin

Book: The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2011

DOI: 10.7882/FS.2011.039

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3

... to these cases, and difficulties in policing the many grids which remain in working order stimulated this review. It summarises evidence that grids are ineffective in preventing damage to crops; do not selectively kill flying-fox “scouts”; will significantly hasten decline of flying-fox populations; do not kill...

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Use of a combined drainage/fauna underpass by the Spotted-tailed Quoll, Dasyurus maculatus

Radika J. Michniewicz, Jodie Danvers

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (2): 283–286.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.048

Published: 04 December 2020

... included a combination of dedicated fauna underpasses and combined drainage culvert/ fauna underpasses ranging from 3-3.6 metres wide x 2.1-3.6 metres high, and varying in length from 38 to 66 metres long. Two remote cameras (Infrared Digital Scouting Camera SG570-6M) were placed within each underpass...

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Historical insight on the Topknot Pigeon Lopholaimus antarcticus in the Illawarra rainforests through the 20th Century

Matthew Mo, David Waterhouse

Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (3): 337–342.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.003

Published: 14 April 2015

... in the Illawarra from the early 1900 s, and David Walsh, whose knowledge traces back to the 1920 s. Ring, an ex-Mount Kembla miner, was interviewed on 17 February 1990. He was 83 years old at the time and lived most of his life on his small farm off Mount Keira Road. Walsh, a former warden of the Mount Keira Scout...

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President's Report 2002–2003: Delivered at the AGM on 25 October 2003.

Pat Hutchings

Australian Zoologist (2004) 32 (4): 632.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2004.008

Published: 01 December 2004

... this is critically important to foster the next generation of zoologists. I should also like to publicly thank Ian Langford Brown who has been our treasurer for the past 2 years and was able to complete the books and organise the audit before he resigned to take on a very senior role in the Scouting organisation...

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Managing the Grey-headed Flying-fox as a threatened species in New South Wales two decades on: contentious issues for horticulturalists and communities

Matthew Mo, Kylie Coutts-McClelland, Vanessa Wilson, Ron Haering, Lorraine Oliver ...

Australian Zoologist (2022)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.014

Published: 10 May 2022

... reiterated in subsequent publications (e.g. McLachlan 2002; Woodhead et al. 2009). Despite this, there has been a notion amongst some fruit growers that the first flying-foxes to arrive at crops are scouts for larger cohorts and that killing these initial flying-foxes prevents large numbers of them...

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Contributions to bat conservation by Ku-ring-gai Bat Colony Committee Inc.

Nancy Pallin

Australian Zoologist (1990) 26 (2): 42–43.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1990.105

Published: 01 June 1990

... on the availability of hand-reared and unreleasable Grey- headed Flying-foxes, formerly cared for by Helen George and now by the Committee. Now "Bat talks" including colour transparencies of Grey-headed Flying-foxes have been given to hundreds of schools and community groups such as scouts, guides, church groups...

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An investment toward non-lethal crop protection measures for a threatened species in New South Wales: the Flying-fox Netting Subsidy Program

Matthew Mo, Joshua Gregory, Vanessa Wilson, Katie Robinson, Kevin Dodds ...

Australian Zoologist (2022)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.020

Published: 20 May 2022

... (Eby and Lunney 2002) and that killing the first individuals arriving at an orchard would prevent further individuals following behind (see scouts theory in Comensoli 2002). Current research showing that flying-foxes are extremely mobile, panmictic and undertake movements independent of each other...

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Distribution, habitat and conservation status of the Eastern Pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus in Queensland

J. Harris, I. Gynther, T. Eyre, R. Goldingay, M. Mathieson

Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (2): 209–221.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2007.020

Published: 10 October 2011

.... 1988. The edge of the range. Journal of Animal Ecology 57: 771-785. The edge of the range Journal of Animal Ecology 57 771 785 Churchett, G. 1982. All in a Day's Walk. Scout Association of Australia, Athelstone, South Australia. All in a Day's Walk Crosby, K., Bassarova, M...

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Co-existing with dingoes: Challenges and solutions to implementing non-lethal management

Bradley P. Smith, Robert G. Appleby, Neil R. Jordan

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 491–510.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.024

Published: 25 August 2020

.... ClassifyMe: A field-scouting software for the identification of wildlife in camera trap images. Animals 10: 58. doi: 10.3390/ani10010058 Fleming, P.J.S., Corbett, L., Harden, R., and Thompson, P. 2001. Managing the Impact of Dingoes and Other Wild Dogs. Australian Government Publishing, Canberra. Forsyth, D...

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Farm children's understanding of animals in changing times: Autobiographies and farming culture 1

Alison Loveridge

Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (1): 28–38.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2009.004

Published: 04 October 2011

..., and clubs such as the Scouts and Guides that continue traditional outdoor activities with a new emphasis on environmental concerns (Dobrin and Kidd 2004; Lindahl Elliot 2006). The interplay of contemporary, urban generated ideas and farm experience is complex. Farming involves tension it is both...

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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (2): fmi–fmcliv.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.010

Published: 09 April 2021

... long. Two remote cameras (Infrared Digital Scouting Camera SG570-6M) were placed within each underpass and set to record for a minimum of 60 consecutive days (PIR (passive infrared) Sensitivity: Normal; Photo Burst: 2; PIR Interval: 50 seconds). At each underpass, where possible, one camera...

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