Discover the Wildlife in Your Backyard with the WildTracker Project

Discover the Wildlife in Your Backyard with the WildTracker Project

Have you ever wondered what creatures share your backyard? Meet the Marshall family from Tinderbox, south of Hobart, Australia, who recently embarked on an exciting journey to find out what animals live on their property. Thanks to the Tasmanian Land Conservancy’s WildTracker project, a citizen science program, the family is discovering the fascinating array of […]

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Dying for sex: endangered male quolls may be mating themselves to death instead of sleeping, scientists say

Dying for sex: endangered male quolls may be mating themselves to death instead of sleeping, scientists say

Male northern quolls seem to sacrifice sleep in favour of having sex, behaviour that might be responsible for their early deaths, suggests new research into the endangered marsupials. Australian scientists have investigated why male northern quolls usually mate themselves to death after one season, while females of the species reproduce once but live up to […]

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Crocs v cane toads: can crocodiles in Western Australia be taught to avoid the toxic intruder?

Crocs v cane toads: can crocodiles in Western Australia be taught to avoid the toxic intruder?

Cane toads are poisoning freshwater crocodiles as they continue their march across Western Australia’s Kimberley region. But in Windjana Gorge, ahead of the front, researchers are gearing up to combat a mass mortality event – lacing cane toad corpses with nausea-inducing chemicals in a bid to train native crocs to stay away from the pests. […]

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‘The unsung heroes of Australian fauna’: how quolls can help us understand the modern world

‘The unsung heroes of Australian fauna’: how quolls can help us understand the modern world

All Harry Saddler really wanted to do was to see a quoll in the wild. It was November 2019, and the Melbourne-based author was enjoying a surprise publishing success: his small book, The Eastern Curlew, a telling of the extraordinary migration of Australia’s largest shorebird, had sold through its hardcover print run, opening a new […]

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