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Best-practice dingo management: six lessons from K’gari (Fraser Island) 管理野狗的最佳实践:来自K 'gari(弗雷泽岛)的六个经验教训

The Australian zoologist Pub Date : 2021-02-02 DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2021.001

Linda Behrendorff

引用次数: 8

The fauna fights back: invasive Cane Toads killed by native centipedes in tropical Australia 动物群进行了反击:入侵的甘蔗蟾蜍被澳大利亚热带地区的本地蜈蚣杀死

The Australian zoologist Pub Date : 2021-02-02 DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2021.002

J. Pomeroy, Gregory P. Brown, G. Webb, R. Shine

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Field studies of a high elevation population of northern Greater glider Petauroides volans minor in the Bluff State Forest, Far North Queensland 在昆士兰州北部布拉夫州森林，对北部大滑翔机小滑翔机高海拔种群的实地研究

The Australian zoologist Pub Date : 2021-02-02 DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2021.003

C. R. Starr, R. Hughes, M. S. Hemmings, J. F. Coase, M. Jess

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Taxonomy of the Dingo: It’s an ancient dog 澳洲野狗的分类:这是一种古老的狗

The Australian zoologist Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.7882/az.2020.049

S. Jackson, P. Fleming, M. Eldridge, M. Archer, S. Ingleby, Rebecca N. Johnson, K. Helgen

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引用次数: 7

Field observations of a cryptic agamid (Chameleon Dragon Chelosania brunnea Gray, 1845) in semi-arid savanna woodland of northern Australia 在澳大利亚北部半干旱的热带稀树草原林地中，一只隐蔽性agamid(变色龙龙Chelosania brunnea Gray, 1845)的野外观察

The Australian zoologist Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.7882/az.2020.044

Alana de Laive, C. Jolly

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Distinctive plumage patterns enable individual recognition of the Australian Magpie Cracticus tibicen 独特的羽毛图案使澳大利亚喜鹊的个体识别

The Australian zoologist Pub Date : 2020-12-04 DOI: 10.7882/az.2020.046

Ishini K. Kuruppu, D. Saunders

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Use of a combined drainage/fauna underpass by the Spotted-tailed Quoll, Dasyurus maculatus 斑尾鸥使用排水/动物群联合地下通道

The Australian zoologist Pub Date : 2020-12-04 DOI: 10.7882/az.2020.048

Radika J. Michniewicz, Jodie Danvers

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A survey of veterinary professionals about their interactions with free-living native animals and the volunteer wildlife rehabilitation sector in New South Wales, Australia 一项关于兽医专业人员与自由生活的本地动物和澳大利亚新南威尔士州志愿野生动物康复部门互动的调查

The Australian zoologist Pub Date : 2020-12-02 DOI: 10.7882/az.2020.045

R. Haering, Vanessa K. Wilson, Annie Zhuo, P. Stathis

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引用次数: 6

New Fellows of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW: Peter Fleming FRZS, 2019 新南威尔士州皇家动物学会新成员:Peter Fleming FRZS, 2019

The Australian zoologist Pub Date : 2020-11-20 DOI: 10.7882/az.2020.043

C. Dickman

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The uneasy coexistence between Carpet Pythons and Cane Toads 地毯蟒和甘蔗蟾蜍之间令人不安的共存

The Australian zoologist Pub Date : 2020-11-11 DOI: 10.7882/az.2020.042

Gregory P. Brown, J. Hemphill, R. Shine

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