{"title":"The golden tip for better breeding: evidence for polyoestry in the golden-tipped bat (Phoniscus papuensis)","authors":"G. Madani, C. Turbill, B. Law","doi":"10.1071/am22032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/am22032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48851,"journal":{"name":"Australian Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59048653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Habitat use by the eastern pygmy-possum in a coastal woodland–heathland mosaic","authors":"R. Goldingay","doi":"10.1071/am22013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/am22013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48851,"journal":{"name":"Australian Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59048201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Goldingay, S. Jackson, J. Winter, D. Harley, R. Bilney, D. G. Quin, Geoffrey C. Smith, B. D. Taylor, R. Kavanagh
{"title":"What’s in a name? Selection of common names among new and revised species of Australian mammals, and the case of the sugar glider†","authors":"R. Goldingay, S. Jackson, J. Winter, D. Harley, R. Bilney, D. G. Quin, Geoffrey C. Smith, B. D. Taylor, R. Kavanagh","doi":"10.1071/am23017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/am23017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48851,"journal":{"name":"Australian Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59050730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BatMap – authoritative distribution maps for Australian bats","authors":"D. Milne, T. Reardon, G. Ford","doi":"10.1071/am23005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/am23005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48851,"journal":{"name":"Australian Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59050514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A population of wild European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) was regularly monitored from November 1996 to April 2022, using mark–recapture as part of a longitudinal epidemiological study into two Australian rabbit biocontrol agents, rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) and myxomatosis. A female rabbit, first captured as a subadult on 26 October 2009, was recaptured 16 times before its final capture on 19 February 2019. The longevity of this rabbit, from its calculated birth date to the date of its last capture, was 9.5 years. This is a record lifespan for a wild European rabbit – acknowledging that such longevity might be specific to our site in temperate South Australia. It exceeds our previous reported record from the same site by 2 years.
{"title":"A new longevity record for a wild European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) from South Australia","authors":"David E. Peacock, Ron G. Sinclair","doi":"10.1071/am23032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/am23032","url":null,"abstract":"A population of wild European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) was regularly monitored from November 1996 to April 2022, using mark–recapture as part of a longitudinal epidemiological study into two Australian rabbit biocontrol agents, rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) and myxomatosis. A female rabbit, first captured as a subadult on 26 October 2009, was recaptured 16 times before its final capture on 19 February 2019. The longevity of this rabbit, from its calculated birth date to the date of its last capture, was 9.5 years. This is a record lifespan for a wild European rabbit – acknowledging that such longevity might be specific to our site in temperate South Australia. It exceeds our previous reported record from the same site by 2 years.","PeriodicalId":48851,"journal":{"name":"Australian Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135596071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter J. McDonald, D. Portelli, A. Schubert, A. Stewart, A. Griffiths
{"title":"Continuing decline of the common brushtail possum in central Australia","authors":"Peter J. McDonald, D. Portelli, A. Schubert, A. Stewart, A. Griffiths","doi":"10.1071/am23011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/am23011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48851,"journal":{"name":"Australian Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59050967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin Schulz, Catriona D Campbell, Mellesa Schroder
Wildfires are considered a major risk to the threatened broad-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus mordicus), a native murid rodent. Kosciuszko National Park is an important stronghold for the species, raising concern regarding the impact of the 2019–20 fires on populations occurring in this area. Sixty-two burnt sites known to be occupied by the species in 2016–17 were revisited. One year after the fires, little evidence of the broad-toothed rat was found, with its distinctive scats located at just 8% of sites. All these sites had some unburnt vegetation present. In contrast, 80.4% of 51 unburnt sites had evidence of the broad-toothed rat in both the pre- and post-fire surveys. Two years following the fire, scats were found at 42% of burnt sites, predominantly occurring within grassland (n = 23), with three in forested habitat. Three years following the fire, the scats were detected in 66% of sites, comprising 30 in grassland, 11 in forested gully and the first in lower slope shrubland. Based on the recovery trajectory, it is likely that in subsequent years (with the absence of fire or the adequate management of other competing threats) all remaining previously occupied sites may be re-populated.
{"title":"Mainland broad-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus mordicus) recovery after wildfire","authors":"Martin Schulz, Catriona D Campbell, Mellesa Schroder","doi":"10.1071/am23030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/am23030","url":null,"abstract":"Wildfires are considered a major risk to the threatened broad-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus mordicus), a native murid rodent. Kosciuszko National Park is an important stronghold for the species, raising concern regarding the impact of the 2019–20 fires on populations occurring in this area. Sixty-two burnt sites known to be occupied by the species in 2016–17 were revisited. One year after the fires, little evidence of the broad-toothed rat was found, with its distinctive scats located at just 8% of sites. All these sites had some unburnt vegetation present. In contrast, 80.4% of 51 unburnt sites had evidence of the broad-toothed rat in both the pre- and post-fire surveys. Two years following the fire, scats were found at 42% of burnt sites, predominantly occurring within grassland (n = 23), with three in forested habitat. Three years following the fire, the scats were detected in 66% of sites, comprising 30 in grassland, 11 in forested gully and the first in lower slope shrubland. Based on the recovery trajectory, it is likely that in subsequent years (with the absence of fire or the adequate management of other competing threats) all remaining previously occupied sites may be re-populated.","PeriodicalId":48851,"journal":{"name":"Australian Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135052153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Cooper, K. Travouillon, K. Helgen, K. Saint, R. Russell, J. Winter
{"title":"Reassessment of the subspecific status of the Australian Wet Tropics yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis","authors":"S. Cooper, K. Travouillon, K. Helgen, K. Saint, R. Russell, J. Winter","doi":"10.1071/am22022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/am22022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48851,"journal":{"name":"Australian Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59048692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Freya Robinson, Nikki Van de Weyer, Steve Henry, Lyn A. Hinds, Peter R. Brown, Wendy A. Ruscoe
Radio tracking can be used to collect information about animal movement, home range, behaviour and habitat use. Many field studies have fitted radio transmitters to small rodents using permanent nylon cable tie collars and successfully collected movement and fate data. The approach to animal welfare within the context of scientific research prioritises minimising adverse effects on the research animals. Although a range of electronically activated release mechanisms exist in radio tracking collars for larger mammals, weight and size restrictions make these unsuitable for smaller animals (<30 g). Our aim was to identify a radio transmitter model and attachment method of an appropriate size and weight that would remain attached to a house mouse (Mus musculus) for >20 days to collect movement data – and then detach or show signs of detaching after 30 days. Laboratory and field trials identified that a cable tie collar with a cotton thread weak-link and customised radio transmitter was suitable for wild house mice in cropping paddocks. Glue-on methods did not stay attached for long enough to obtain more than a few days of tracking data.
{"title":"Improving radio transmitter attachment methods for small mammals through captive trials and field studies","authors":"Freya Robinson, Nikki Van de Weyer, Steve Henry, Lyn A. Hinds, Peter R. Brown, Wendy A. Ruscoe","doi":"10.1071/am23007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1071/am23007","url":null,"abstract":"Radio tracking can be used to collect information about animal movement, home range, behaviour and habitat use. Many field studies have fitted radio transmitters to small rodents using permanent nylon cable tie collars and successfully collected movement and fate data. The approach to animal welfare within the context of scientific research prioritises minimising adverse effects on the research animals. Although a range of electronically activated release mechanisms exist in radio tracking collars for larger mammals, weight and size restrictions make these unsuitable for smaller animals (<30 g). Our aim was to identify a radio transmitter model and attachment method of an appropriate size and weight that would remain attached to a house mouse (Mus musculus) for >20 days to collect movement data – and then detach or show signs of detaching after 30 days. Laboratory and field trials identified that a cable tie collar with a cotton thread weak-link and customised radio transmitter was suitable for wild house mice in cropping paddocks. Glue-on methods did not stay attached for long enough to obtain more than a few days of tracking data.","PeriodicalId":48851,"journal":{"name":"Australian Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135733715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}