Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 388 p. The last 20 years have seen many exciting discoveries in the study of marsupials, leading to significant developments in our understanding of this unique group of mammals. The impact of these developments has been such that marsupials are coming to be seen as model organisms in studies of life-history evolution, ageing and senescence,...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 268 p. The management of kangaroos is one of the most controversial issues in Australian wildlife management today - kangaroos are 'in plague proportions' or 'on the verge of extinction' depending on whom you spoke to last. This book examines the ecology and management of kangaroos and shows how they interact with their own environment and...
CSIRO Publishing, 2019. — 348 p. The Tasmanian devil is threatened by Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), a transmissible form of cancer that has reduced the population by over 80%. Hunting, extreme climate events, vehicle collision and habitat destruction also put pressure on this endangered species. The recovery effort to save the Tasmanian devil commenced over 15 years ago...
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO ; London : Eurospan, 2003. — 486 p. — ISBN: 0643066349 Predators with Pouches provides a unique synthesis of current knowledge of the world’s carnivorous marsupials — from Patagonia to New Guinea and North America to Tasmania. Written by 63 experts in each field, the book covers a comprehensive range of disciplines including evolution and systematics,...
Clayton: CSIRO Publishing, 2003. — 504 p. — ISBN13: 978-0643066342. Predators with Pouches provides a unique synthesis of current knowledge of the world’s carnivorous marsupials — from Patagonia to New Guinea and North America to Tasmania. Written by 63 experts in each field, the book covers a comprehensive range of disciplines including evolution and systematics, reproductive...
CSIRO PUBLISHING, 2005. — 168 p. — ISBN: 0-643-09072-X. To many people, the suggestion that a kangaroo could live up a tree is fantasy. Yet, in the rainforests of Far North Queensland and New Guinea, there are extraordinary kangaroos that do just that. Many aspects of these marsupials' anatomy and biology suggest a terrestrial kangaroo ancestor. Yet no one has, so far, come...
CSIRO Publishing, 2016. — 176 p. The red kangaroo is at the heart of Australia’s ecological identity. It is Australia’s largest terrestrial land mammal, the largest extant marsupial, and the only kangaroo truly restricted to Australia’s arid interior. Almost nothing was known about the ecology of the red kangaroo when a young Alan Newsome began to study it in 1957. He...
Introduction by Christopher R. Dickman. — Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. — vi, 226 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. — ISBN: 0801882222 Authoritative and engaging, this volume from the Walker's Mammals series focuses on marsupials, pouched animals whose unusual method of reproduction — between egg laying and placental birth — places them in a unique category among mammals....
Australia, Allen & Unwin, 2012. — 228 p. Packed with information that has only been published in scientific journals, if ever at all, this collection of biological facts challenges the misconceptions associated with Australia's most famous marsupial. Far from being a scavenging, ferocious oddity, an image perpetuated by the infamous cartoon character, the Tasmanian Devil is...
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