Manuela is studying how wallabies use space and move between different vegetation patches in human-modified and heterogeneous landscapes. She's also interested in human-wildlife interactions.
One of Manuela's GPS-collared swamp wallabies returned to a Phillip Island trapping site to wish her well. This plucky female has crossed the 100-kph Rhyll-Newhaven Road six times in four days. Manuela is studying how wallabies use space and move between different vegetation patches in human-modified and heterogeneous landscapes. She's also interested in human-wildlife interactions.
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Superb lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae) are famous for mimicking the calls of other species, as well as chainsaws, car alarms and camera shutters. Kate has recently discovered they also have a proclivity for attacking the cameras she’s using to study how fire edges influence animal distribution, abundance and movement in the Central Highlands. She’s put together a video depicting a feisty encounter between a camera and a particularly determined individual. The video contains prolonged scenes of strong violence and coarse language. Watch at your peril. |
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