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Henricus Peters @learnfromnature.bsky.social · 20d

Great stuff re #wildlife & #drones
@ausmammals.bsky.social @gliderhabitat.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social @theconversation.com

Ben Wagner @gliderhabitat.bsky.social · 24d

Happy to be able to share that our work investigating the efficacy of thermal #drones for nocturnal #wildlife surveys is finally published in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecological applications: doi.org/10.1002/eap..... Find a summary in @theconversation.com here: theconversation.com/drones-with-...

Drones with thermal cameras are revealing the secrets of elusive Australian forest wildlife

The new technology will help scientists monitor and protect some of Australia’s most iconic and threatened forest species.

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Ben Wagner @gliderhabitat.bsky.social · 24d

Happy to be able to share that our work investigating the efficacy of thermal #drones for nocturnal #wildlife surveys is finally published in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecological applications: doi.org/10.1002/eap..... Find a summary in @theconversation.com here: theconversation.com/drones-with-...

Drones with thermal cameras are revealing the secrets of elusive Australian forest wildlife

The new technology will help scientists monitor and protect some of Australia’s most iconic and threatened forest species.

theconversation.com

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Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · 24d

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Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · 27d

The Society strongly opposes plans to consider the importation of #Bengalcats into Australia as pets. The risks posed to #nativewildlife are too high.

Australia’s #biosecurity and #conservation frameworks must be robust and precautionary #ProtectAussieWildlife
📷Wesam Saka, WikiCommons, CCA 4.0.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 28d

Our pre-print on EcoEvoRxiv 👉 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

"Dingo abundance and density was estimated as 77 (64–94) individuals and 0.014 (0.012–0.017) dingoes/km²—lower than previously reported estimates—and varied significantly in response to aspects of the fire regime and distance from roads."

Landscape drivers of population density of a vulnerable apex predator (Wilkerr/dingo)

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 27d

A chat about our work estimating the population size of Wilkerr (dingoes) in Big Desert-Wyperfeld.

Starts 1:25 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr....

Victorian Country Hour - ABC listen

North-west Victorian livestock producer ridicules the state's ag department for refusing to release dingo predation figures

www.abc.net.au

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Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · 27d

🌿 Big win for koalas! A heartfelt thank you to Penny Sharpe on the announcement of the Great Koala National Park—a landmark move for native wildlife, climate, and communities.

We thank the many people who've worked tirelessly to make the #GKNP a reality. 🐨🌳

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Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · Sep 7

This #nationalthreatenedspecies day, please enjoy some fabulous #australianmammal images submitted by our talented and dedicated Committee..
#numbat - @ellaloeffler.bsky.social
#fattaileddunnart - @drdunnart.bsky.social
#leadbeaterspossum - Arabella Eyre
#spottedtailedquoll - Jemma Cripps

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Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · Aug 29

#BogongMoths are a crucial spring food source for #MountainPygmypossums - declines in Moth numbers are an urgent threat to the possums’ survival.

Help scientists track the Bogong Moths via #ZoosVictoria Moth Tracker: www.zoo.org.au/moth-tracker/
Image - Zoos Victoria. #citizenscience #wildoz

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · Aug 20

Every part of a #wombat is round.

#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats

A round wombat standing head-on on a large tussock of button-grass.

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Hagatha @Hagatha42.bsky.social @hagatha42.bsky.social · Aug 21

I love the well rounded amongst us

Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · Aug 20

Every part of a #wombat is round.

#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · Aug 27

True, very true.

Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Mountain Goats. I know of no other type of wildlife that can be photographed through a window at a distance of 2.5 kms and still be recognizable. #wildlife #mammals #Banff

Six white Mountain Goats graze on a grassy slope in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

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CSIRO Publishing @csiropublishing.bsky.social · Aug 27

Read the latest #EditorChoice paper in #AusMammalogy:

'Investigation of free-living highland wild dogs near Grasberg Gold Mine, Papua Province, Indonesia' by James K. McIntyre, et al.

Published #OpenAccess: www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM23047

Australian Mammalogy: the journal of the Australian Mammal Society; https://www.publish.csiro.au/am

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CSIRO Publishing @csiropublishing.bsky.social · Aug 25

Australian Mammalogy is the journal of the @ausmammals.bsky.social and is an important source of information on all aspects of the biology of Australasian mammals – both native and introduced.

Browse more journal content: www.publish.csiro.au/am

#AusMammalogy

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yesterday I co-presented a Meet the Scientist at the @nhm-london.bsky.social: we talked about the giant ground sloth Mylodon (or Neomylodon) skin the museum received from F. P. Moreno in 1899. Thanks to @neilfadams.bsky.social, we had the actual specimen. Turns out it's real big!

A table displaying Mylodon skin, mandible, and dung.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Aug 21

Dingoes are NOT domestic dogs, and we show why in theconversation.com/dingoes-are-... @aunz.theconversation.com.

Research www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM24052 published today in Australian Mammalogy (@ausmammals.bsky.social) and led by @drcairns.bsky.social.

Dingoes are not domestic dogs – new evidence shows these native canines are on their own evolutionary path

New research suggests dingoes are distinct enough to have their own scientific name. If this is accepted, it will have far-reaching consequences

theconversation.com

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Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · Aug 21

Dingoes are on their own evolutionary path, and are not domestic dogs - 🐾🐾
Read more theconversation.com/dingoes-are-...

Research www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM24052 published today in our journal #australianmammalogy led by
@drcairns.bsky.social

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · Aug 20

Every now and then you catch yourself realising that #MuseumLife is not normal life.

A screeenshot of a Microsoft Teams message that reads:
"hey. Do we have any dolphin brains?"

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Aug 20

Eyes on Australian Mammalogy (@ausmammals.bsky.social) and @aunz.theconversation.com tomorrow... #dingoes

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Douglass S Rovinsky, PhD @dsrovinsky.bsky.social · Aug 19

Five years ago, my second PhD paper came out: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
In it, I looked at the body mass of the recently extinct thylacine (aka Tasmanian tiger) & found that it was only about half as big as popularly thought.

Let's revisit the paper, & see where we are today.

🧪🧵 #evobio #Mammals

Did the thylacine violate the costs of carnivory? Body mass and sexual dimorphism of an iconic Australian marsupial | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The relative body masses of predators and their prey strongly affect the predators' ecology. An accurate estimate of the mass of an extinct predator is therefore key to revealing its biology and the s...

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Terrain NRM @terrainnrm.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ulysses butterflies, Australia’s largest snake, rare waterfall frogs, Lumholtz’s tree kangaroos, green ringtail possums, musky rat-kangaroos... The Wet Tropics region's biodiversity is off tap! There are nine other great places in this story too.

#biodiversity #wettropics