Wombats don’t deliberately offer shelter to other animals in their burrows which can be very extensive. There might be 90 metres of tunnels with up to 30 entrances and the temperature inside these boroughs can be about 10°C below surface temperatures. The question arises because …
NEWS AND COMMENT-TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA: There is a 15-mile stretch of road in Tasmania on which 160 endangered Tasmanian devils have been killed within the past 18 months (unnamed road). Animal advocates are in despair as our conservationists. And the Tasmanian devil needs all the conservation …
Gilbert’s potoroo vanished in the 1870s. It was believed to have become extinct about 120 years ago. It was (now is) one of Australia’s precious marsupial native species. It looks like a cute rat crossed with a kangaroo. Dr. Jackie Courtenay, a conservation biologist with …
