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Australian Zoologist June 2006

Volume 33 Issue 3 of the refereed scientific journal Australian Zoologist

Articles are available for free on-screen viewing only (printing not possible). To view you will need Adobe Acrobat 5.0 or higher. Note the colour photos make some files quite large

• Observations on the ecology of the Barking Owl Ninox connivens within the lower Macquarie River Floodplain of New South Wales (278kb)
  D Shelly

• Human-animal studies in Australia: perspectives from the arts, humanities and social sciences (180kb)
  N Lloyd and J Mulcock

• Observations of scavenging carnivory by the common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula on macropod carcasses in Namadgi National Park, montane Southeasetern Australia (125kb)
  T E Heinsohn and R Barker

• Opinion piece: an Australian zoologist's perspective of biodiversity research in the UK (346kb)
  D Moro

• Turbulent times for urban nature: conserving and re-inventing nature in Australian cities (259kb)
  A Davison and B Ridder  

• Book Reviews:

• Kangaroos: Myths and Realities. 2005. 3rd edition

• Life of marsupials

• Tree-kangaroos of Australia and New Guinea

• Adelaide, Nature of a City: The Ecology of a Dynamic City from 1836 to 2036

• Echidna, Extraordinary egg-laying Mammal

• A Field Guide to Reptiles of New South Wales

• Tasmanian devil a unique and threatened animal 
  
  

• The Man Who Loved Tortoises (322kb)
  L J Christensen

• How many frogs are killed on a road in North-east New South Wales? (362kb)
  R L Goldingay and B D Taylor

• The biology of the threatened Green-thighed frog Litoria brevipalmata (Anura:Hylidae) in the central and mid-north coastal areas of New South Wales (405kb)
  F Lemckert, M Mahony, T Brassuk and C Slayter

• Decline in the distribution of the koala Phascolarctos cinerus in Queensland (623kb)
  G Gordon, F Hrdina and R Patterson 

• Diet of two species of bluetongue skink, Tiliqua multifasciata and Tiliqua occipitalis (Squamata: Scincidae) (3268kb)
  G M Shea

• Thank your mother for the rabbits: bilbies, bunnies and redemptive ecology (277kb)
  N Smith

• Confirmation of an established population of exotic turtles in urban Sydney (235kb)
  S Burgin

• The Piscicolid leech Austrobdella translucens, Badham, 1916: a new host record from Australian salmon, Arripis trutta (Forster, 1801), and a new locality record for Yellowfin whiting, Sillago schomburgkii, Peters 1864, in South Australia (176kb)
  T F Bolton, C J Hayward and A J Turner

• From value to vermin: a history of the donkey in Australia (302kb)
  J Bough

• Building connections between kangaroos, commerce and conservation in the rangelands (256kb)
  P Ampt and A Baumber
  
  

• 2005 Whitley awards (176kb)

• Presidents report (178kb)

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