How Australians are making it rain …are compared. Therefore much research has been based on computer simulations, which may not be applicable to the real world. IN TASMANIA, THE SITUATION is different. Recently, associate professor Steven…
Nature & Wildlife The regent honeyeater is forgetting its song as the species dies out …Despite the increasing number of endangered bird species, there is surprisingly little research into how declines in population size and density might damage song culture in wild birds. We sought…
News Whale poo important for ocean ecosystems IT’S LONG BEEN thought that a whale’s size and need for huge amounts of food is a burden on ocean ecosystems, but new Australian research shows that its output may…
Crafty chickens use complex clucking …portrays chickens as social creatures that employ Machiavellian intelligence and adjust what they say depending on who is listening. The research won the pair one of the awards at Tuesdays’s…
Fearsome giant turtles found in Pacific cemetery …settlers, says a new study. People shared the island with these giant land-dwelling turtles for at least two centuries, but eventually wiped them out, according to research published today by…
Nature & Wildlife Is the truth still out there? …to a year-long, but ultimately fruitless, search by PWS rangers in the region for any further hints of the presence of the marsupial carnivore. “This was someone who knew Tasmanian…
Fish driving cars and chimps doing maths: What teaching animals ‘irrelevant’ skills reveals about our own minds …my own research has been labelled as “ecologically irrelevant”. However, as I have argued in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, there are plenty of reasons to study this kind of animal…
Nature & Wildlife Sydney funnel-web spider found to be three different species …of scientists has confirmed this. The research, published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, identified the three species by analysing specimens from the Australian Museum and the Australian Reptile Park. Who’s…
Nature & Wildlife Newly discovered fledglings offer hope for the Norfolk Island morepork …was an increasing possibility that most, if not all birds were now beyond breeding age,” says Dr Rohan Clark, the Head of the Ornithology and Conservation Management Research Group at…
Biodiversity Changing the clocks could save Queensland's koalas …researchers at the University of Queensland, every year over 300 koalas are killed from vehicle collisions in the state. The research shows that these collisions generally occur in the late…
