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---- Brogo Reserve
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---- Scottsdale Reserve
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---- Tarcutta Hills Reserve
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Kirsty studies microbats
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Kate Cranney
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06 August 2016
Kirsty Dixon will change your tune about bats. The University of Tasmania PhD candidate is studying microbats that call the Tasmanian Midlands home. The eight bat species in Tasmania are all forest...
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Studying bettongs & bandicoots
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Kate Cranney
on
05 August 2016
In the Midlands of Tasmania there are five bettongs named Egbert, Percy, Dot, Cyril and Maud. They're not pets, but they wear collars. They're not criminals, but Riana Gardiner tracks their every...
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Kirstin studies bettongs & quolls
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Kate Cranney
on
04 August 2016
Kirstin Proft is enamoured by all things bettong. She's a PhD student from the University of Tasmania. She describes Bettongs as 'weird and wonderful things... charismatic little animals, each with...
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Glen Bain studies woodland birds
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Kate Cranney
on
03 August 2016
When Glen Bain moved to Hobart to start his PhD, he quickly learned the calls of the 12 bird species endemic to (only found in) Tasmania, like the Green Rosella and the Yellow-throated Honeyeater...
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Studying quolls, cats & devils
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Kate Cranney
on
02 August 2016
Rowena Hamer walks through the supermarket with a trolley full of Seafood Basket, a cheap cat food. While she claims she looks like a crazy cat lady, the PhD candidate insists that it's all in the...
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Ecology in the Tassie midlands
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Kate Cranney
on
01 August 2016
The Tasmanian Midlands is a patchwork of colours. White sheep are peppered across a paddock. There are red roofs, silver sheds, and swathes of brown soil, cultivated for crops. The patches of...
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Science in the desert at Ethabuka
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Kate Cranney
on
02 May 2016
Since 1990, the University of Sydney has used pitfall traps to understand which mammals and reptiles live on the reserve. The Desert Ecology Group follows strict protocols on the humane and ethical...
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Science in the desert: Thorny Devil!
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Kate Cranney
on
30 April 2016
This afternoon, while opening the pitfall traps, I was visited by the devil – a Thorny Devil! Thorny Devils appear frightful, but in reality they're harmless, slow-moving ant-eaters. They're...
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Exploring Ethabuka with the DERG
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Kate Cranney
on
30 April 2016
Penguins waddle for weeks on end. Waterbirds travel thousands of kilometres on the wing. Wildebeest cross vast savannahs in search of food. But, out in the Simpson Desert, a very different kind of...
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Rain & saltbush at Boolcoomatta
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Kate Cranney
on
19 October 2015
Fat and scattered, the first raindrops confused me. They sounded like the resident possum that's been galloping around the shearers quarters ceiling. Then the storm cloud broke, and you couldn't...
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Using your grey matter on Boolcoomatta
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Kate Cranney
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16 February 2015
Drive one hour west of Broken Hill. Drive past the backdrop of Mad Max II, past feral goats and frantic emus. Drive down a dirt track, cross three cattle grids and you'll reach Bush Heritage's...
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