...Daniel Lunney; Brad Law; Martin Predavec Editorial: The Australian Zoologist adapts to the electronic age DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.046 When the Royal Zoological Society of NSW came into existence in 1879, Darwin s magnum opus was but 21 years old. The struggle of the 19th century...

...Michael C. Calver; Heather M. Crawford; Douglas Fletcher ABSTRACT The peer-reviewed Australian Zoologist , first published in 1914, is Australia’s longest-lived zoological journal. Its publication history shows changes in the zoological topics covered over the last 100 years, including the animals...

... Correction for the paper: Stephen R. Sleightholme and Cameron R. Campbell (2018) The International Thylacine Specimen Database (6 Revision - Project Summary & Final Report). Australian Zoologist 39(3):480-512. httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.011 In the printed version, Table 3 (page 487) and a short...

... zoological interest. The lack of diversity of food options strikes a zoologist as basis for concern about how we can manage the future of our food supplies. Zooarchaeologist Juliet Clutton-Brock adds a new dimension to the debate by looking at the arrival of animals as domesticates. In Europe, she says...

...Daniel Lunney A reader survey carried out to determine preferences for material in the Australian Zoologist showed that there was an active reading audience with defined preferences for a good range of zoological material. With 598 replies to the questionnaire in the June 1989 edition...

... and biotechnology is well reviewed but very much "second generation". A whii at least of the third generation would make me feel that the more general zoological reader, for instance, would see the final rewards that will be obtained in knowledge of developmental Confessions of a Frozen Zoologist Arthur White1...

... Society of New South Wales: Mosman. Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna 81 90 EDITORIAL Re-interpreting the past: zoologist as ecological historian In this edition, Bob Paddle's well-written piece begins: "Species depart the biota, not with a bang but a whimper. The Thylacine, Tasmania...

... opinion and prediction for the new millennium. Australian Zoologist 31:11-27. The state of Australia's avifauna: a personal opinion and prediction for the new millennium Australian Zoologist 31 11 27 Regan, C.T. (ed.) 1936. Natural History. Ward Lock and Co., London and Melbourne. Natural...

...Matt Hayward; Adam Munn This paper arose out of a seminar series for the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales ' 2006 student forum and workshop, “ From the Horse's Mouth: Career Insights from Working Zoologists ”.The paper is aimed mainly at honours and postgraduate zoologists, and describes...

...Daniel Lunney © 1990 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1990 EDITORIAL Nature Conservation Debate: Bats; National Parks; and State of the Nation Daniel Lunney Editor, Australian Zoologist On February 28, 1989 I listened as John Whitehouse, then the Director of National Parks...

...Gordon Grigg This issue of the Australian Zoologist is published 50 years after I went to the University of Queensland in 1960 to become a zoologist. Dan Lunney invited me to put together a ‘photo essay’. I agreed because it gives me an opportunity to salute colleagues and friends who made so many...

... scientists, especially zoologists, fared in the reporting. The following conclusions were drawn: there was a sustained media interest in animals; animal welfare was the dominant theme; risk to humans was the second most important issue; and although scientists were consistently mentioned, science...

... in this theme edition of Australian Zoologist . The forum was a parallel event to the IUCN World Parks Congress on protected areas, also held in Sydney in the week following the forum. One outcome of the IUCN Congress was the inspirational statement entitled ‘Promise of Sydney’, which included a call to invest...

... Society of NSW, Australian Zoologist and Western Australian Naturalist . Using thematic and content analyses, this article identifies and explores key themes relating to the conservation of Australia's reptile fauna, or what Worrell referred to as “the unpopular ones”, in his writings. Four dominant...

... and social approaches to urban habitat management and restoration, is needed. Significant opportunities 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...

... and their constituent fauna had fared. This paper provides an overview of the 21 studies that were presented at the forum, now as papers in this theme edition of Australian Zoologist . All the authors were unanimous in their agreement about the unparalleled extent and severity of the fires and the magnitude...