... bred captive quolls was considered. a similar pattern was obtained although the number of responses "agree" and "disagree" were equal. This question is largely subjective as the viability would also depend on demand, sale price, costs etc. Calculate the number of weaned oflsfiring per female per year...

... cause, while contact with the other was lost after 8 years. Unverified sightings indicated that the latter was still alive at the age of 16 years. All the other radio-collared females died of natural causes and all but one weaned young almost every year. The exception weaned two young in nine years...

... and tales Blanshard, W. H. 1990. Growth and development of the koala from birth to weaning. Pp 193 - 202 in Biology of the koala, edited by A.K. Lee, K. A. Handasyde and G.D. Sanson.) Surrey Beatty and Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW, Australia. Biology of the koala 193 202 DEH 2009. Conditions...

... to weaning (Bilton and Croft 2004). In addition, their daughters can learn habitat and diet selection from their mothers by being allowed to remain in the natal home range. Thus, if maternal age has a strong influence on breeding success, then a reduction in the average age of females in a population through...

... Discipline Vocalisations Title Pattern of nipple use by puppies: A comparison of the Australian dingo and the domestic dog. Diurnal pattern of pre-weaning den visits and nursing in breeding pairs of captive dingoes (Canis dingo). The bark, the howl and the bark-howl: Identity cues in dingoes multicomponent...

...-recognised (Cole 1954; Williams 1966). Species with high mortality rates relative to their body size tend to have a suite of life history characteristics associated with the fast end of the continuum: i.e. short gestation lengths; early age at weaning; large litters (Promislow and Harvey 1990). On the other...

..., letter, 26/8/1902, Smithsonian Archives Box 94). Thylacine young were not fully weaned until at least 7 months of age as noted in an article in the Mercury newspaper of the 12th Feb 1924: Tiger Family at Zoo - A highly interesting addition, in the shape of a family of Tasmanian tigers been made...

... weaned until around 8 months. The Mercury newspaper of the 12th February 1924 records the arrival of a female thylacine and her three young at the Beaumaris Zoo (Queen s Domain). The female was caught some 7 months earlier (June 1923) with young in her pouch. With reference to their continued dependence...

... for Conservation and Management of Marsupials, Macquarie University, Sydney: 19-29 Minchin, K. 1937. Notes on the weaning of a young Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). Records of the South Australian Museum 6: 1-3 Minteer, B. A., Collins, J. P. 2010. Move it or lose it? The ecological ethics of relocating species...

... was limited in the majority of breeding groups in the first year, although it was somewhat better in the 2008 breeding season. In early 2007, 31 disease-free Tasmanian devils were wild-caught at weaning age and most were sent to four mainland Australian zoos, under the Aegis of ARAZPA (the Australasian...

... such as water and fertiliser to places where they are scarce; shift our diets away from meat and wean our cars off biofuels; and reduce the amount of food that is discarded, spoilt, or eaten by pests, which amounts to about one third of global agricultural production. Foley (2014) expands on his earlier work...

... 2000 (including young) in special maternity caves during the spring and summer and then moving to male colonies after the young are weaned (Dwyer 1966; Hall et al. 1975; Young 2001; Pavey and Young 2008). Rhinolophus megaphyllus has been recorded foraging at distances of up to 2.25 km (straight-line...

... weeks later, and the appearance of newly weaned and trappable juveniles in the following summer (Woolley 1966; Lee et al. 1982; Dickman 1985). In A. mimetes, in this study, strong fluctuations in relative numbers and survival also reflect the small numbers of animals known to be alive in both study...

... of harvesting on the young 48 The industry was modelled on the north American fur harvest, yet in many of those species the young are born, weaned and able to care for themselves within six months, not within 6 to 12 months as in Australia . Koala births occur over a broad period in spring,summer. Pouch life...

... porridge plate, weaned on Peter Rabbit stories, and grow up to Watership Down , you are not instinctively a supporter of rabbit pest management strategies. Jim Sutton [Minister of Agriculture at the time] addresses the Veterinarians Association, Wellington 2003. Nick Smith s analysis of the cultural...

... enabling them to digest Eucalyptus and other leaves after weaning. Pap has a high water content (82%) and 23 41 times higher count of tannin-protein-complex degrading enterobacteria than normal faeces (Osawa et al. 1993). Gut microbiomes differ between individual koalas and these differences limit the tree...

... neonates continuously for the first three weeks of their life and then leave them with other flightless young at a camp site at night while they feed (Nelson 1965). As the young do not fly under three months and they are weaned between the age of four to six months old (Nelson 1965; Hall and Richards 2000...

...: Sydney. Burns, B. M., Fordyce, G. and Holroyd, R. G. 2010. A review of factors that impact on the capacity of beef cattle females to conceive, maintain a pregnancy and wean a calf implications for reproductive efficiency in northern Australia. Animal Reproduction Science 122: 1-22. doi: 10.1016/j...