... . When used to defeat a concern for the environment, they are being used as weasel words , which are, as Watson (2004, p1) explains, words from which life has gone, facsimiles, frauds, corpses ; words, Watson says dramatically, that have had the meaning sucked from them. It is our successes in nature...

... with weasel words, since all is rarely correct and most or even some might be more precise. And, as always, remember that age and wisdom are only loosely correlated. Why should we be worried about dangerous ideas? I think any scientific concerns would be classified as dangerous ideas even...

..., with the dominant species changing from peak to peak. The deer mouse ( Peromyscus maniculatus ) fluctuated irregularly, completely disappearing from the catch for 5 years in the early 1990s. Weasels were rare for the first 25 years of small rodent changes and marten were absent, but since 2000 marten have colonized...

... Behaviour Stoddart, D.M. 1976. Effect of the odour of weasels (Mustela nivalis L.) on trapped samples of their prey. Oecologia 22: 439-441. Effect of the odour of weasels (Mustela nivalis L.) on trapped samples of their prey Oecologia 22 439 441 Tasker, E.M. and Dickman, C.R. 2002...

..., D. J. 1996. Red Fox: The Catlike Canine. Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Red Fox: The Catlike Canine Jedrzejewski, W., Jedrzejewska, B. and McNeish, E. 1992. Hunting success of the weasel Mustela nivalis and escape tactics of forest rodents in Bialowieza National Park...

... scenarios. ABSTRACT Key words: foraging, wildlife management, conservation, information use, non-lethal, behaviour Published: 8 March 2024 DOI: DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2024.010 Introduction Wildlife and conservation managers face new and emerging challenges in the Anthropocene. Some problems are age...

... perception, and represents a globally unique perspective. New Zealand mammalogists have utilised this grounding to make significant contributions to mammalogy and ecology, both locally and internationally. Key words: Australia, conservation, exotic, feral, introduction, mammal, New Zealand 109June 2005...

... themselves and the saviour bilby and between their colonial predecessors and the pestilent rabbit. Key words: Rabbit, Bilby, totemism, Australia, naturework. 1 Perhaps aware that it might be construed as being against rabbit research, ARRFA has recently changed its name to the Foundation for Rabbit-Free...

... to native fauna, and therefore to conservation bodies, industry, and the general community. Key words: fauna, surveys, pipeline construction, threatened species, animal ethics 411October 2003 AustralianZoologist volume 32 (3) Materials and methods The Eastern Gas Pipeline (EGP) was constructed in 1999-2000...

... be considered negligible, the cumulative loss of reptiles due to vehicle collision in the region is an ecological disaster. Key words: reptiles, frogs, World Heritage Area, urban - bushland interface, animal mortality, vertebrate road kill Pp 1040 - 1046. Paper in Wildlife response to disasters, the theme...

... totals some 6.09GB of data and images. This paper details its findings, describes the specimen types, and gives a brief review of the sources of many of the specimens and the collectors who collected them. Key words: Thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus, specimens, collectors. DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ...

... exist for urban ecologists and zoologists to engage with practitioners and the community to co-develop and implement approaches to successfully achieve the aim of creating biodiverse urban environments. ABSTRACT Key words: Biodiversity, urban greening, urban ecology, ecological interactions, social...