Back in Part 16 of the Forgotten Fauna series of blogs, we touched on the story of Australia's apex marsupial carnivores, which occupied the terrestrial environments of the mainland for most of its recent evolutionary history, until the relatively recent arrival of the dingo.Over the...
Two interesting things have popped up since last month's forgotten fauna instalment about the Woylie, that are worth exploring, as they add some additional interesting colour and context to the ongoing story of our forgotten mainland fauna...
In the article I wrote last year for the forgotten mainland fauna series, we explored the interesting case study of the introduction of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot to offshore islands in Victoria, where — in the absence of foxes — they are co-existing with feral...
I recently came across this interesting article in the Conversation, which looks at the story of the recovery of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot on three of Victoria's offshore islands - French, Phillip and Churchill Island - and also some of the wider issues facing the...
The recaptured Spotted-tailed Quoll. Photo by Frank Pao-Ling Tsai. In a flurry of activity late last month, word spread fast of news of a Spotted-tailed Quoll being captured in what seemed like the most unlikely of places - a rural property situated on the South East...
It has been a while since I wrote an instalment for our blog series on forgotten fauna, but a number of things I have come across lately got me thinking again about this topic, so let's dive back in again!Before I share those interesting links...
It has been a while since our last foray into the stories of forgotten mainland fauna (see part 14 here), but this month we are back with more interesting insights into the eastern quoll (or native cat as it was then known) on the mainland...
Further to the previous edition of "Forgotten Fauna", a fantastic paper by Rob Wallis (see below this blog) was recently published in the Victorian Naturalist, and provides some great insights by sharing a number of early recorded observations of eastern quolls in western Victoria. As...
We've been exploring the issue of forgotten fauna on the Australian mainland for some time, and thanks to a recent documentary on the ABC, we can now get an incredibly intimate understanding of what life is like for one of these long-forgotten, now extinct mainland...
It has been a little while since the last Mainland Forgotten Fauna instalment - Part 11 - where we looked back at the time when the stony rises of western Victoria were teeming with quolls. Eastern Barred Bandicoot - Parameles gunnii. This was also an era when western...
