New research published recently in the journal Ecology Letters has estimated just 17,000 Tasmanian devils remain in the wild, a significant decline since the estimated peak of 53,000 in 1996, when the deadly facial tumour disease was first identified and that has since ravaged the species. Wildlife ecologist and lead author Calum Cunningham, from the […]
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Traditionally, the recommended age for cats to be desexed has been between five and six months, and a survey conducted in 2013 showed desexing cats at six months remained the standard veterinary advice given to cat owners. Despite a growing awareness of the benefits of desexing at four months or earlier, by 2015 only one […]
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Although the international scientific team that won a prestigious Ig Nobel award in 2019 for research helped explain some of the reasons for wombats’ distinctive cube-shaped poo, the ability of the wombat’s soft intestine to, ‘sculpt flat faces and sharp corners’ in faeces continued to remain poorly understood. Recent research has now shed further light […]
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The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has been named as the top veterinary school in the QS World University Rankings 2021. Compiled by global higher education analysts, QS Quacquarelli Symonds, the rankings provide authoritative comparative analysis on the performance of 14,435 individual university programs, taken by students at 1,452 universities in 86 locations around the world, […]
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The world was shocked by images of animals fleeing last summer’s bushfires, or left homeless, injured and dehydrated in their aftermath, and the images that involved koalas were among the most heart-rending. It is estimated that tens of thousands of koalas died in the bushfires across eastern and southern Australia, including up to 80 per […]
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