Wildlife Horny beetles battle for dung …peacock’s tail) or help them win in battles with other males (the antlers of a stag, for example). Because of this, most research in this area has focused on males….
History & Culture Brunette Downs: Kingdom of cattle …cattle production – vaccinating, tagging, branding, dehorning, desexing – now happens in the yards, rather than the paddock. Working with cattle is hot, filthy, physically ruinous work. Nobody pretends otherwise,…
Destinations Bruny Island: Tasmania's adventure islands …significance of this better than Bev Davis, known affectionately by locals as “the history woman”. Bev’s research and writing on Bruny’s history, together with her community work, was recognised with…
Destinations The Canning Stock Route …– on which I led an Australian Geographic Society 4WD tagalong tour – was the first time in 10 years I’d driven the stock route’s full length and it was…
Wildlife Tasmanian devils: Devil coast …others – was sufficiently concerned to provide $1.8 million for a three-year DFTD program. The Federal Government has pledged a further $2 million over two years. This should keep research…
News Competition asks: What do engineers do? …vote for a weekly winner from now til 10 May. A clever cloud of popular tags generates recurring keywords, from Avatar to solar. Submissions are also searchable by topic. The…
News A celebration of Irish-Australian culture …Victoria was Irish at this time. He is still regarded as a folk hero in some quarters, and the NMA is hoping to display the rag-tag armour, fashioned from iron…
Sponsorship Now on the radar: microchipping platypusses A METHOD OF remote monitoring that uses microchips similar to those that tag domestic cats and dogs is now tracking the elusive platypus. Dr James Macgregor, of Perth’s Murdoch University,…
News Volunteer divers wanted in the Coral Sea …says will help survey, tag and photograph diseased areas of the reef, which scientists will then monitor over time. For more information and to apply go to Earthwatch Institute Australia…
News 'Boss crocs' rule complex social system …satellite tagging to record the location and movement of male and female estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) during the breeding and nesting season. Researchers say the findings, published recently in the…