In nature conservation, the generation of public interest, attention or emotions is an important
instrument for nature, biotope and species protection; in this, charismatic flagship species …

Gymnophiona (caecilians) are inconspicuous, wormlike amphibians that are often hidden
from human sight due to their aquatic or fossorial lifestyles. While Google Trends data have …

Between 1923 and 1936 Hobart City Council's Beaumaris Zoo, situated on the Queen's
Domain, exhibited between nine and eleven confirmed examples of the now-extinct thylacine. …

Until the mid-20th century, the thylacine was the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial, and
its disappearance has left many questions and contradictions. Alternately portrayed as a …

Early European maritime visitors to Australia recorded the close relationship between the
aboriginal people and wolf-like dogs. The first known mention of dingoes appears to be that of …

The long prevailing view of Neanderthals Homo neanderthalensis (King, 1864) as brutish,
slow-witted, technologically inferior, cavemen (in the pejorative sense) is hopefully now …

Despite being officially listed as extinct (eg IUCN, 2015) there are some species (and
subspecies) of animals which are still being'seen'. There have even been several (extremely …

Eight frames representing the eight footfalls (F= fore, H= hind, L= left, R= right) from two
successive strides of the thylacine ‘Benjamin’. Arrows indicate the foot that has just touched …

As 2024 begins, I’m learning about play’s connection to an urgent global issue: threats to
biodiversity. According to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, more than four thousand …

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