Cane Toads, Blue Whales, Red Wolves and Other Updates from the Brink
People often ask me, “How can you write about endangered species all the time? Isn’t it depressing?” Sure, it can be, but not as depressing as the sheer number of stories that I don’t get to write about. So let’s catch up on some of the stories that should have made headlines this month. First [...]
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Can Australia save the dingo from extinction?
July 26th, 2010 |
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Where did the Australian dingo go? Once present throughout that country, the feared predator (Canis lupus dingo) in its current form is on its way to extinction as it is either killed or breeds and hybridizes with domesticated dogs. With the disappearance of the purebred dingo comes the loss of an important part of the [...]
Keep reading »Tree rats and wallabies and dingoes, oh my: Updates on Oz’s endangered species
May 28th, 2009 |
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It’s been a busy week — full of both good news and bad — for Australia’s endangered species. One of the country’s most endangered mammals, the Victorian brush-tailed rock wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) now has a chance at survival thanks to an innovative breeding program at Adelaide Zoo. The process takes days-old joeys and transfers them [...]
Keep reading »Dingoes Ate My Nametag: Tool Use in a Dingo
February 23rd, 2012 |
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Each morning, a nametag would turn up missing. They went missing at some point during the nights, when nobody was around to notice. Each time one went missing, of course, it would be replaced. Nametags were essential in Bradley Philip Smith’s place of business. Every time he replaced a lost nametag with a new one, [...]
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