The construction of the Ellis Park wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra is progressing well following a positive response to donation call-outs. Victorian-based co-founder Lorinda Jane (also the founder of the Palm Oil Investigations watchdog/consultancy) said the funding is half-way there for the facility designed for animals too handicapped or traumatised to be […]
Eagle Post: Tom Donnelly writes
I recently came across a paper entitled, A loss-of-function mutation in RORB disrupts saltatorial locomotion in rabbits. What struck me was not saltorial locomotion (the hopping gait of rabbits and kangaroos) but the image of a rabbit walking on its forelimbs while the hindlimbs are lifted from the ground. I […]
Abstracts: Toxoplasma gondii infections are associated with costly boldness toward felids in a wild host
Toxoplasma gondii is hypothesized to manipulate the behavior of warm-blooded hosts to promote trophic transmission into the parasite’s definitive feline hosts. A key prediction of this hypothesis is that T. gondii infections of non-feline hosts are associated with costly behavior toward T. gondii‘s definitive hosts; however, this effect has not […]
Questions over seal deaths
Tasmania’s farmed salmon industry has been under scrutiny since the publication of Tasmanian award-winning writer Richard Flanagan’s book Toxic earlier this year. The recent release of Right to Information documents by the Tasmanian government’s Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment has provided further cause for concern about the […]
In memoriam: Frazer Allan
Professor Frazer Allan has passed away from a heart attack, the University of Sydney has announced. The Head of School and Dean of the School of Veterinary Science died on June 24, and is survived by his wife Leith, children Sophie, Fergus, Phoebe and Felix, and family from Australia and […]