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SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games: About Australia Koalas are a favourite with tourists, but most do not get a chance to see one in the wild. These marsupials Wombats small, bearlike marsupials. http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesAboutAustrialia/thelandpg4.html
Extractions: [an error occurred while processing this directive] Inside CANOE.CA SLAM! Sports Jam! Showbiz CANOE Travel CNEWS CANOE Money C-Health LIFEWISE AUTONET flirt.canoe.ca Newsstand SunTV WHAM! Gaming AllPop Free E-Mail shop.canoe.ca Jobboom CareerConnection Classified Extra Obituaries Today Restaurants Hotels Weather Horoscopes Lotteries Ecards Crossword Scoreboard News Ticker Sports Ticker TV Listings Movie Listings CLIVE Concerts Mutual Funds Stocks Feedback Index SPORT INDEX Pick a sport Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Gymnastics Handball Judo Pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Swimming Synchro Table Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball B.Volleyball Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling Team Canada The first animals that may come to mind when thinking about Australia are kangaroos and koalas. But Australia boasts a huge number of other unique animals. Australia's position as an island separate from the rest of the world has resulted in a broad range of animal and plant species. . For example, 400 of the 800 species of birds in Australia are found nowhere else in the world.
Extractions: ISBN 642 21395 X Contents Previous Next This Action Plan reviews the conservation status of 209 taxa of Australian monotremes and marsupials: one species and three subspecies of monotremes and 112 species and 93 subspecies of marsupials. For taxa with extra-limital distributions (e.g. Sminthopsis archeri and Phalanger intercastellanus ) we have allocated conservation status only on the basis of their Australian distribution and abundance. (Allocation of IUCN categories to these taxa for the 1996 Red Book took account of their total range, see below.) Australia accounts for about one third of the world's mammal species that have become extinct in modern times (Groombridge 1993). Within the marsupials, ten species and six subspecies are presumed to be extinct (
Action Plan For Australian Marsupials And Monotremes - Foreword marsupials and monotremes have not fared well since Captain Cook arrived in Harewallaby) became extinct in the wild in 1991 and now exists as about 150 http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/action/marsupials/2.html
Extractions: ISBN 642 21395 X Contents Previous Next Marsupials and monotremes have not fared well since Captain Cook arrived in Australia a little over 200 years ago. Australia accounts for about one third of all mammal extinctions world-wide since 1600 and most extinct Australian mammals were marsupials. Currently, at least ten species and six subspecies of Australian marsupials are extinct and many more are threatened with extinction. Fortunately, neither species of monotreme is threatened. These figures, startling as they are, do not reflect the degree to which increasing numbers of species are under pressure regionally. In the central deserts about one third of all mammal species have disappeared, while in some heavily cleared agricultural areas over one quarter of marsupial species are locally extinct. Some marsupials are extremely rare. The Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat, for example, has been reduced to about 67 individuals, of which possibly only 15 are breeding females, while the Mala (the central Australian subspecies of the Rufous Hare-wallaby) became extinct in the wild in 1991 and now exists as about 150 animals in captivity and as one experimental re-introduction, which consists of only about 10 wild animals. And the recently rediscovered Gilbert's Potoroo is known from less than 50 individuals.
Marsupials Marvellous marsupials and Other Mammals Living in Australia. Koalas. By Dillon A dingo is a wild dog. It used to be tame. It is a mammal. http://www.sturgeon.ab.ca/op/2SWP/marsupials.html
Extractions: Marvellous Marsupials and Other Mammals Living in Australia By Dillon Koalas are marsupials, a special type of mammal. They are not bears. A koala has a life span of about 20 years. Koalas have big heads with large ears. A koala can get as big as 60 to 85 cm. The koala resembles a toy teddy bear. Most koalas live in forests. Koalas mostly live in Eastern Australia Koalas favorite food is eucalyptus. Koalas are fussy about what kind of eucalyptus they eat. When a baby koala is born, it cant see or hear. When a baby koala is born, it crawls into its mothers pouch. Its legs are just taking shape. Most koalas climb and eat. Koalas sleep curled up on limbs of a tree firmly grasping the limbs with their feet. Fires are the biggest danger to koalas. Dingoes are a big danger to koalas. Koalas are interesting because they dont drink. By Amy The kangaroo is a marsupial which means a pouched animal. The kangaroo has large ears, large powerful legs, short arms, clawed
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Extractions: Search Health home IDEAS home Blue book ... Contacts Page content: Victorian statutory requirements Infectious agents Ross river virus disease (Epidemic polyarthritis) Infectious agent ... Epidemic measures Group A for Australian arboencephalitis. Group B for other arbovirus infections. Prevention of mosquito breeding (section 29 of the Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1990). Flaviviruses: Murray Valley Encephalitis (the cause of Australian arboencephalitis), Kunjin, Dengue. Alphaviruses: Ross River virus, Barmah Forest virus, Sindbis. Ross River virus (alphavirus). Sindbis and particularly Barmah Forest viruses (both alphaviruses) can cause similar illnesses. A self-limited disease characterised by arthritis or arthralgia lasting from days to months and primarily affecting the wrist, knee, ankle and small joints of the extremities. Prolonged symptoms are common. In some cases, there may be remissions and exacerbations of decreasing intensity for years.
Extractions: Search Health home IDEAS home Blue book ... Contacts Page content: Overview Victorian statutory requirement Infectious agent Identification ... Outbreak measures Arboviruses are viruses which are spread by the bite of arthropods, particularly mosquitoes. They are divided into alphaviruses and flaviviruses. Three infective alphaviruses include Ross River, Barmah Forest and Sindbis viruses. These all have the capacity to cause a similar disease in humans characterised by fever, joint involvement and a rash. Molecular studies of epidemiologically distinct isolates of Ross River and Sindbis viruses have shown changes in isolates from different areas (distinct topotypes). This may explain varying disease patterns which sometimes occur in certain geographic locations and the differing transmissibility of some strains by different vector mosquitoes. Ross River virus infection (Group B disease) requires notification within five days of diagnosis. School exclusion is not required.
Distance Education Programs Australian Wildlife Housing, care and nutrition of wild birds in captivity marsupials and other mammals. Jackson S Australian mammals Biology and captive management (2003) http://www.pgf.edu.au/disted/wildlife.cfm
Extractions: Quick Find PGF Home Vetbookshop About the Foundation Join the PGF Director's Circular Major Courses TimeOuts Distance Education Discussion Forum About Research Databases Research Databases Interactive Case Studies TimeOut Notes Log in to Restricted Pages 2005 Year Planner Help Search Contact Us Site Map Links Register for PGF Members Area Ophthalmology Case of the Month Radiograph of the Month Feline Medicine Case of the Month Monthly Newsletters Frequently Asked Questions Key Benefits: Gain an appreciation of the unique biology, taxonomy, anatomy and physiology of Reptiles, Amphibans, Australian Mammals Introduction Thank you for your interest in the PGF 'Veterinary Care of Australian Wildlife' Distance Education program. I look forward to the opportunity to share some of the knowledge I have gained working with Australian wildlife, so that we can all learn how to better look after our unique fauna. The aim of this course is to provide participants with broad, practical knowledge of health, disease and veterinary care of the wildlife: marsupials, other mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. The focus will be on
654-309 Field Biology Of Marsupials & Monotremes 654309 Field Biology of marsupials Monotremes trapping and handling of wild animals and an ability to integrate their observations with existing http://www.unimelb.edu.au/HB/subjects/654-309.html
Extractions: Next 654-312 Marine Ecology Note Credit Points Coordinator Dr S J Ward Prerequisites 654-204 and 654-203. Corequisites Semester (view timetable) Contact Four lectures, one tutorial and 60 hours practical work including a week-long field trip during the mid-semester break Subject Description This subject provides a field course to give an overall perspective on the biology of marsupials and monotremes. Students should learn to identify the major marsupial and monotreme families, and some of the techniques for studying these animals in captivity and in the wild. This subject also covers the basic taxonomic features of modern marsupials and monotremes, the separate radiations of marsupials in Australia and South America, and the relationships between the three groups of extant mammals. This subject builds upon existing generic skills, including an ability to approach and assimilate new knowledge from observation and the literature, and an ability to use that knowledge to evaluate and communicate results. Students should gain practical experience in observation, trapping and handling of wild animals and an ability to integrate their observations with existing literature and knowledge. Students should also develop skills in analysing, interpreting and evaluating data, and gain experience in writing a scientific report.
This Week In California Wild The scientists think wild elephants parrot the sounds of other herd members to maintain social The advantage for leafeating marsupials isn t so clear. http://www.calacademy.org/thisweek/archive/2005/20050330.html
Extractions: CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES March 30, 2005 Quick GUIDE Dinosaur Flesh Overdrawn Earth Elephant Mimics Octopus Walk ... CALIFORNIA WILD Stony Fossils Hide Soft T. rex Tissues Tyrannosaurus rex bones dug up in Montana have wowed scientists not for their size but for tiny blood vessels that still remain soft after 70 million years. The discovery marks the first time that actual tissues, not fossil impressions, have been recovered from a dinosaur, the scientists report in the journal Science. The cells would normally have stayed hidden inside the dinosaur's massive thigh bone. But workers had to break the femur in two places to cram it onto a helicopter sling to transport it from the field. A sharp-eyed scientist noticed that bits of soft tissue still clung to the bone's interior. When paleontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University analyzed the tissue, she found bone marrow cells and rubbery veins. Analyses of large bones in other museum collections turned up similar traces of once-living cells. The find came as a shock because organic molecules weren't thought to last longer than about 100,000 years. The T. rex
This Week This Week in California wild is a joint project of California wild,the science and Tammars, Australian marsupials that look like little kangaroos, http://www.calacademy.org/thisweek/archive/2002/20020130.html
Extractions: NATURAL SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS January 30, 2002 SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE This Week Quick Guide: Nitrogen Rethink Dinosaurs and Dust Scaring Wallabies Jellyfish Jamboree ... Life Light This Week in California Wild is a joint project of California Wild, the science and natural history magazine published by the California Academy of Sciences, and the Biodiversity Resource Center, a branch of the Academy's Library. Each week library and magazine staffs cull a wide variety of news sources to compile the most important and interesting natural science stories. To contact This Week in California Wild e-mail kwong@calacademy.org or write to Kathleen Wong, This Week in California Wild, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118 Stories adapted by KATHLEEN WONG and JESSIE LANDAU Scientists have long believed that forests grow in proportion to the amount of nitrogen present in the soil. Turns out they may have been deluding themselves. Scientists from North and South America, scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York now say that massive additions of nitrogen to Northern Hemisphere forests in the form of fertilizer runoff may have radically altered the nitrogen cycle, or the way forests use the element. When they studied streams running through more than 100 pristine temperate forests in South America, they found that 30 percent of the nitrogen in the clean streams was the type derived from pollution, compared to an astronomical 70 percent in North American streams. The finding, published in the journal
Natural History: PLAY'S The THING - Marsupials At Play Full text of the article, PLAY S the THING marsupials at play from Natural Observing them at various locations in the wild and visiting zoos and http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_6_108/ai_55127881
Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Some young animals spend hours running, leaping, boxing, and wrestling, while others seem to have mush less fun. Could it be a case of mind over metabolism? I'll never forget my first look at a koala brain. I was spending a sabbatical year in Australia and at the time was visiting a study site northwest of Melbourne, where colleagues Tony Lee, Kath Handasyde, and Roger Martin had radio-collared several koalas. When one of the animals died, my biologist friends invited me to attend the necropsy. As the veterinarian lifted off the top of the koala's skull, I was amazed to see that the brain did not fill the space inside. The smooth cerebral hemisphereseach about as large and thick as the peel from a quarter of an orangewere so small that they did not meet at the midline, and when the veterinarian removed the brain and placed it on the table, the feeble hemispheres flopped apart, revealing the midbrain.
Ask: What Some Animals Will Do To Survive On An Island Some marsupials are so unusual they are found in the wild on only one small island. The Tasmanian devil, for example, gets the first half of its name from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4128/is_200507/ai_n14686273
Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. An island can be an especially safe place for some animals to live. It's like a castle with a moat around it to keep strangers and enemies out. But unless they fly or swim, animals cant leave, either. If things go wrong, they can be stuck, not safe, on their island. Maybe that's why some island animals can get, well, kind of weird. Babies in Their Pockets The bettong, the devil, and the eastern quoll. The bandicoot, the pademelon, and the potoroo. The names sound as if they belong in a video game or a fairy tale, but they are all the names of real animals that are found on Tasmania, an island that lies about 150 miles south of Australia.
The Dingo And The Tiger Carrion, lizards, small mammals, Kangaroos, Devils, small marsupials, perhaps Dingos Semidomesticated; Symbiotic; Hunting partner; Companion; wild http://www.convictcreations.com/animals/dingo.htm
Extractions: Unfairly judged? "On the evidence, juries have always convicted the dingo, but it is a largely circumstantial case," Dr Stephen Wroe It is hard to define whether the Dingo is a native or introduced species. Unlike the marsupials, it didn't evolve on the Australian continent - being introduced between 3,000 and 10,000 years ago. But since its introduction, the Australian continent has shaped the Dingo so that it it unlike any other canine around the world. Curiously, its behaviour has evolved to more closely resemble that of the Tasmanian Tiger , the marsupial wolf that it is said to have eliminated from mainland Australia. Although the Dingo sometimes hunts in pairs or small family groups, like the Tiger, Dingos are not by nature a pack dog. Perhaps the solitary life has reduced its need to communicate for like the Tiger, it can't bark. Like the Tiger, when hunting alone, it relies on endurance to wear down its prey. Considering its evolutions have taken it closer to the Tiger, and the Tiger had 4 million years to adapt to the Australian environment, it is somewhat of a mystery as to how it managed to eliminate the Tiger in such a short period of time. As a reproducer, because the Tiger was a marsupial, it was better adapted to the cyclic nature of Australian droughts. If there was a fight over food, the Tiger would win. Early colonist had noted the Tiger's ferocity to dogs and its ability to quickly kill them.
The Problems Because marsupials are so abundant and diverse in Australia, The dingo, a wild doglike animal, is thought to have been introduced 3000 to 8000 years http://www.biology.iastate.edu/intop/1Australia/Australia papers/Australia-Dilge
Extractions: The Threatening of Australia's Marsupials By Amber Dilger, 1998 Extinctions and declines have not uniformly affected marsupial species. Terrestrial, medium-sized marsupials in the weight range of 35.0 g to 5.5 kg have proven to be more vulnerable, and omnivores and herbivores have declined to a greater extent than carnivores. Arboreal species such as possums and gliders and species that use rock piles for shelter have been less affected. Most problems with extinction and endangerment occur in the southern arid zone and the wheat belt of Western Australia; while the tropical north of Australia, the mesic northeast and coast of New South Wales, Tasmania, and numerous offshore islands have remained relatively unaffected by local extinctions (Short 1994). Seven main hypotheses have been put forward to explain why species have declined and/or disappeared from various parts of Australia, and they include: 1) clearing for agriculture, 2) draining and salination of wetlands, 3) grazing and browsing by introduce animals, 4) changed fire regimes, 5) introduced predators, 6) disease, and 7) overkill by hunters (Kennedy 1992). By studying the history of threatened fauna and patterns of decline, experts have come to the conclusion that some of these hypotheses can be dismissed as not being a primary cause of declining populations. For instance, there is no direct evidence that disease has led to any mammal extinctions, though epidemics have been blamed for the decline of carnivorous marsupials in southeastern Australia and Tasmania at the turn of the century. Though Aborigines and early European settlers hunted many species for food, there is also no evidence that overkill by hunters caused any excessive declines or extinctions. Kangaroos once were one of the most widely hunted marsupials, but remain so abundant today to be considered a pest. The case of the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) possibly presents a debatable exception because this carnivorous marsupial was treated as wolves once were in North America-with zealous overkill. It is presumed extinct, but there have been supposed sightings of it in Northern Tasmania.
Extractions: Abstract The marsupial animal species that have evolved on the isolated continent of Australia are unique compared to the rest of the animal kingdom in many ways due to the harsh and distinctive environment found on the continent. The major area of marsupial biology that distinguishes them from all other eutherian mammals is their mode of reproduction. However, it can be said that there are many other areas in which unique differences can be seen between marsupials and eutherian mammals; one such area of adaptation is in the anatomy and physiology of digestion, which distinguishes them from many other similar animals worldwide. The foregut fermenters, such as kangaroos and wallabies, evolved in regions of poor forage quality to be able to extract the most nutrients out of the poorest feeds. Fermentation in the foregut has many advantages over hindgut fermentation, which is seen in marsupials such as the koalas and wombats. The anatomy and physiology of the digestive tracts of both types of fermenters, however, are uniquely suited to their individual modes of nutrition.
Altweb-ANZCAART Factsheets It is well to remember that marsupials are wild animals and as such are very susceptible to being stressed by whatever is happening to them capture, http://altweb.jhsph.edu/publications/anzccart/marsupial.htm
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