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Thylacinidae
FAUNA of AUSTRALIA 20. THYLACINIDAE JOAN M. DIXON 1 Thylacine–Thylacinus cynocephalus [F. Knight/ANPWS] 20. THYLACINIDAE DEFINITION AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION The single member of the family Thylacinidae, Thylacinus cynocephalus, known as the Thylacine, Tasmanian Tiger or Wolf, is a large carnivorous marsupial (Fig. 20.1). Generally sandy yellow in colour, it has 15 to 20 distinct transverse dark stripes across the back from shoulders to tail. While the large head is reminiscent of the dog and wolf, the tail is long and characteristically stiff and the legs are relatively short. Body hair is dense, short and soft, up to 15 mm in length. Body proportions are similar to those of the Tasmanian Devil, Sarcophilus harrisii, the Eastern Quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus and the Tiger Quoll, Dasyurus maculatus. The Thylacine is digitigrade. There are five digital pads on the forefoot and four on the hind foot. Figure 20.1 Thylacine, side view of the whole animal. (© ABRS)[D. Kirshner] The face is fox-like in young animals, wolf- or dog-like in adults. Hairs on the cheeks, above the eyes and base of the ears are whitish-brown. Facial vibrissae are relatively shorter, finer and fewer than in Tasmanian Devils and Quolls. The short ears are about 80 mm long, erect, rounded and covered with short fur. Sexual dimorphism occurs, adult males being larger on average. Jaws are long and powerful and the teeth number 46. In the vertebral column there are only two sacrals instead of the usual three and from 23 to 25 caudal vertebrae rather than 20 to 21. -
Venomous Collections Kenneth D
Venomous collections Kenneth D. Winkel and Jacqueline Healy In many countries now, Stanley Cohen’s discovery of growth his work on anaphylaxis.3 Richet’s research in Universities is factors, and the 2003 chemistry work commenced with the study of under severe financial restraint. prize for Roderick MacKinnon’s the effects of jellyfish venom and led This is a short-sighted policy. structural and mechanistic studies to a new understanding of allergy. Ways have to be found to of ion channels.2 Moreover, venoms Although the scientific utility and maintain University research contributed, from ‘improbable societal fascination with venoms, untrammelled by requirements beginnings’ through ‘convoluted and venomous creatures, predates of forecasting application or pathways’, to early Nobel Prizes such the University of Melbourne, this usefulness. Those who wish to as Charles Richet’s 1913 physiology ancient theme finds expression study the sex-life of butterflies, or medicine prize in recognition of through many of its collections. or the activities associated with snake venom or seminal fluid should be encouraged to do so. It is such improbable beginnings that lead by convoluted pathways to new concepts and then, perhaps some 20 years later, to new types of drugs. —John R. Vane, 19821 More than 30 years after Nobel Prize-winner John Vane’s invocation concerning the value of curiosity- driven research, including allusion to the role snake venom played in his pathway to pharmacological discovery, this sentiment remains just as relevant. Indeed, at least two subsequent Nobel Prizes involved the use of venoms or toxins as key sources of bioactive compounds or critical molecular probes of structure-function relationships: the 1986 physiology or medicine prize for Rita Levi-Montalcini’s and Kenneth D. -
NEWSLETTER 2011 年 4 月 Vol. 3
NEWSLETTER 2011 年 4 月 Vol. 3 To Supporters of the AJWCEF Tetsuo Mizuno, Managing Director Thank you for your understanding of and cooperation towards the Australia-Japan Wildlife Conservation and Education Foundation. Looking back over the past year, in August the Foundation was fortunate to receive some funding for its activities from the Australian Commonwealth Government via a grant from the Australia Japan Foundation. We participated in our first international conference (the 10th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, COP10) and, as a result, were able to register with the Head Office for the Convention on Biological Diversity, an organ of the United Nations. As part of our activities to educate about wildlife conservation, an important element of our work, at COP10 the Foundation presented research papers at a side event to the main conference, had a display booth and conducted a citizens’ forum to disseminate information more widely to the general public. We also visited several universities in Japan to present seminars on the current state of wildlife in Australia and their protection, etc. These were well attended, with close to 100 students gathering at some venues, and it was truly significant to be able to speak with the youth of the next generation. Currently we have two projects underway, one being the establishment of an international artificial insemination network and gene bank to maintain a healthy genetic diversity among the Australian animals that have been sent to zoos overseas. The other is eucalyptus plantations for the purpose of securing food for injured and sick wild koalas that have been hospitalized. -
Dexter the Courageous Koala Is Suitable for Readers from Year 5 Up, Although Mature, Capable Readers in Years 3 and 4 Will Also Find Much to Enjoy
Dexter The Courageous Koala By Jesse Blackadder Book Summary: Ashley can’t wait to bring home the puppy she’s been promised —but then Dad loses his job, and her parents can’t afford an extra mouth to feed. Heart-broken, Ashley reluctantly goes off to spend the school holidays with an aunt she barely knows—eccentric Micky, who lives in an isolated spot on the north coast of NSW and who cares for injured koalas. Within hours of arriving, the road into Micky’s house is cut off by rising flood waters, then a wild storm brings a blackout and some serious damage to Micky’s house and garden. Worse still, trees from a nearby koala colony have come down in the storm, and Ashley must risk life and limb to save an injured koala and her joey. Curriculum Areas and Key Learning Outcomes: Dexter the Courageous Koala is suitable for readers from Year 5 up, although mature, capable readers in Years 3 and 4 will also find much to enjoy. ACELT1609,ACELT1795,ACELT1610 ISBN: 9780733331787 ACELY1698,ACELY1701,ACELY1703 eBook 9781743098202 ACELY1704,ACELT1613,ACELT1800 ACELY1710,ACSSU043,ACSSU094 Notes by: Judith Ridge ACHCK027,ACHGK030,ACHGK028 Appropriate Ages: 8-13 These notes may be reproduced free of charge for use and study within schools but they may not be reproduced (either in whole or in part) and offered for commercial sale. Page 1 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jesse Blackadder is an award-winning author for children and adults. She lives on the far north coast of NSW—the same area that Dexter the Courageous Koala is set—where she shares a large garden with a variety of wildlife, including passing koalas. -
The Earliest Motion Picture Footage of the Last Captive Thylacine? Stephen R
The earliest motion picture footage of the last captive thylacine? Stephen R. Sleightholme1 and Cameron R. Campbell2 1 Project Director - International Thylacine Specimen Database (ITSD), 26 Bitham Mill, Westbury, BA13 3DJ, UK. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Curator of the online Thylacine Museum: http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/ 8707 Eagle Mountain Circle, Fort Worth, TX 76135, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Downloaded from http://meridian.allenpress.com/australian-zoologist/article-pdf/37/3/282/1587738/az_2014_021.pdf by guest on 02 October 2021 David Fleay’s 1933 motion film footage of the last captive thylacine at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart was thought to be the only film record of this thylacine. The authors provide evidence to confirm that two earlier motion picture films, erroneously dated to 1928, also show the last captive specimen at the zoo. ABSTRACT Key Words: Thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus, motion picture, Beaumaris Zoo, David Fleay. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.021 Introduction The thylacine or Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) is the largest marsupial carnivore to have existed into modern times. The last known captive specimen, a male (Sleightholme, 2011), died at the Beaumaris Zoo on the Queen’s Domain in Hobart on the night of the 7th September 1936. There are seven historical motion picture films known to exist of captive thylacines, all of which were made between 1911 and 1933 (Fig. 1, [i-vii]) 1. Five of the films were recorded at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, and the remaining two at the London Zoo, Regent’s Park. The earliest known footage was filmed by a Mr. -
The Perils of De-Extinction
MINDING NATURE 8.1 The Perils of De-extinction By BEN A. MINTEER TASMANIA’S LOST TIGER Neither tiger nor wolf, the “Thylacine” (as it became t wasn’t a tiger, at least not in the biological known after several taxonomic fits and starts), was, in sense. But in the cultural imagination of British fact, a marsupial mammal roughly the size of a hyena. It and Irish sheepherders transplanted to “Van Di- went extinct on the Australian mainland around 35,000 I emen’s Land” of the southeastern coast of Aus- years ago, a period that corresponded with the arrival of tralia in the early nineteenth century, the carnivorous, the dingo (the natural history of the species, however, is striped creature with the stealthy nature certainly ft a bit foggy). Tasmania, an island state around the size of the bill.1 Dubbed the Tasmanian tiger—or, alterna- Ireland or West Virginia, only ever held a small remnant tively, Tasmanian wolf (which it also was not)—the population of Thylacines, probably not more than five elusive animal was viewed as a threat to the island’s thousand at the time of British settlement in 1803.2 rapidly growing though ultimately ill-suited sheep in- The species would be decimated in the nineteenth dustry, an unwanted varmint that was also seen as an century by bounty hunters working at the behest of the impediment to the development of the Tasmanian wil- Van Diemen’s Land Company, a United Kingdom–based derness. wool-growing venture with a myopic desire for a pred- ator-free landscape. -
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QueenslandQueensland Government Government Gazette Gazette PP 451207100087 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY ISSN 0155-9370 Vol. CCCXLI] (341) FRIDAY, 17 FEBRUARY, 2006 BUUIJTSBUF ZPVDBOBGGPSE UPSFTUFBTZ /VERLOOKINGTHE"OTANIC'ARDENSANDRIVER "RISBANES 2OYALONTHE0ARKISJUSTASHORTSTROLLFROM0ARLIAMENT(OUSE AND'OVERNMENTOFlCESIN'EORGE3TREET !TTHISRATE ITCOULDBEYOURHOMEAWAYFROMHOME PERROOM PERNIGHT 'OVERNMENTRATEINCLUDESFREENEWSPAPER &ULLBUFFETBREAKFASTISAVAILABLE #NR!LICEAND!LBERT3TREET"RISBANE#ITY 0HONE&AX FORANADDITIONALPERPERSON ,IMITEDNUMBEROFROOMSAVAILABLEATTHISRATE3INGLE TWINORDOUBLEOCCUPANCY 0RICEINCLUDES'346ALIDTILL 2/0OI [529] Queensland Government Gazette PP 451207100087 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY ISSN 0155-9370 Vol. CCCXLI] (341) FRIDAY, 17 FEBRUARY, 2006 [No. 34 VETERINARY SURGEONS ACT 1936 THE ROLL OF VETERINARY SURGEONS OF QUEENSLAND FOR THE YEAR 2006 I HEREBY certify that the following is a true copy of the Roll of Veterinary Surgeons of Queensland compiled up to and inclusive of the thirty-first day of December, 2005. Primary Industries Building, Brisbane W.G. MURRAY, Registrar The Veterinary Surgeons Board of Queensland Name Business or Contact Address Qualifications Date of Date of Regist. Registrable/Other Registrable Qual. Registration Number ABBOTT David Sydney Ramsey ________ B.V.Sc., Syd.1934 3/08/1937 0010 ABBOTT Wayne Douglas Goodna Veterinary Surgery, Shop 1, St Ives B.V.Sc., Q'ld1976 28/11/1989 1219 Professional Offices, Smiths Rd, Goodna, 4300 ABDUL KHALID Siti Izatul Hawa Creek Road Cat Clinic Pty Ltd, 189 Creek Rd, B.V.Sc., -
Socio-Economic Impact of Sydney Zoo
Socio-economic Impact of Sydney Zoo Prepared for Sydney Zoo Pty Ltd as part of the State Significant Development application SSD 7228 9 May 2016 Sydney Zoo – Economic Impact Assessment – May 2016 Contents 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Background.............................................................................................................................. 4 1.2 Purpose of this document ....................................................................................................... 4 2 Project Overview .............................................................................................................................. 5 3 Methodology .................................................................................................................................... 6 3.1 Scoping of Issues .................................................................................................................... 6 3.2 Socio-economic baseline ......................................................................................................... 6 3.3 Sydney Zoo visitor assumptions .............................................................................................. 7 3.4 Socio-economic impact assessment ....................................................................................... 7 4 Socio-economic policy context ........................................................................................................ -
Disclosure and Revision in Photographs of the Thylacine
Society and Animals 15 (2007) 241-256 www.brill.nl/soan Imaging Extinction: Disclosure and Revision in Photographs of the Th ylacine (Tasmanian tiger) Carol Freeman Honorary Research Associate, School of Geography & Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 78, HOBART Tasmania 7001 Email [email protected] Received 15 December 2006, Accepted 14 March 2007 Abstract Th e thylacine was a shy and elusive nonhuman animal who survived in small numbers on the island of Tasmania, Australia, when European settlers arrived in 1803. After a deliberate cam- paign of eradication, the species disappeared 130 years later. Visual and verbal constructions in the nineteenth century labeled the thylacine a ferocious predator, but photographs of individuals in British and American zoos that were used to illustrate early twentieth-century zoological works presented a very different impression of the animal. Th e publication of these photographs, however, had little effect on the relentless progress of extermination. Th is essay focuses on the relationship between photographs of thylacines and the process of extinction, between images and words, and between pictures of dead animals and live ones. Th e procedures, claims, and limitations of photography are crucial to the messages generated by these images and to the role they played in the representation of the species. Th is essay explains why the medium of photog- raphy and pleas for preservation could not save the thylacine. Keywords thylacine, representation, photography, human-animal interactions, extinction Introduction References to photography in nineteenth-century zoological publications often stress its difference from previous picture-making traditions; for instance, naturalist Agassiz (1871) commented that “the accuracy of a photographic illustration is of course far beyond that of an engraving or lithograph” (p. -
Thylacine Conspiracy
Thylacine Conspiracy Bill Cromer \ 2 The thylacine (pronounced 'thigh-la-seen'), also known as the Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf, is – or was – the world's largest marsupial carnivore ( marsupial : a mammal with a pouch for carrying young; carnivore : a meat-eater). Bill Cromer Thylacine Conspiracy 3 Acknowledgments I am delighted and grateful that Eric Guiler read the manuscript, and has checked the scientific details of the thylacine - as far as they are known. Dr. Guiler is the recognized world expert on the thylacine, the author of Thylacine: The tragedy of the Tasmanian Tiger and related scientific articles, the organizer of and participant in several searches for the elusive animal, and until recently a firm believer in its continued existence. Chris MacGeorge of the Bureau of Meteorology in Hobart went out of his way to help me with weather patterns and rainfall figures for northeastern Tasmania. For an insight into how trustees operate, and especially how they handle hard-to-find beneficiaries, I am indebted to Ken Lord. Veterinarian Barry Springfield kindly answered my curious-sounding questions about how someone could keep a 'dog-like animal' sedated for several days. Rob Usher talked on my behalf to two private Cessna Citation pilots and discussed with them - hypothetically, of course - a realistic flight plan for smuggling a Tasmanian Tiger across the Pacific Ocean. Janet Terry, an Internet-met fellow writer in the United States, kindly critiqued the manuscript and helped iron out the wrinkles in my narrative. My wife Hilary was, as always, encouraging, and uncomplaining about my early-morning forays with the word processor. -
After the Thylacine: in Pursuit of Cinematic and Literary Improvised Encounters with the Extinct
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies Vol. 14, No. 1 (2018) After the Thylacine: In Pursuit of Cinematic and Literary Improvised Encounters with the Extinct Nicholas Chare Introduction: Tainted Evidence A coughing bark was one of its forms of vocal expression.1 Or, more precisely, coughing bark is how one of its forms of vocal expression has been styled, part- imitated, translated into words; circumscribed for the purposes of description, classification, possession and preservation. The coughing bark, carrying under- tones of canine sickness, refers to a non-human vocalisation, a vocalisation made by Thylacinus cynocephalus, otherwise known as the thylacine or the Tasmanian tiger. This non-human animal, a carnivorous marsupial, was officially declared extinct by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in 1982. It was also acknowledged as extinct by the Tasmanian Government in 1986. Alt- hough the thylacine was once native to mainland Australia and Papua New Guinea it likely died out in those regions around 2000 years ago and the animal is therefore most associated with the island of Tasmania where a relictual popu- lation survived into the twentieth-century.2 The last officially recorded thylacine in Tasmania, commonly referred to as “Benjamin”, died at Hobart Zoo in 1936.3 Nicholas Chare is Associate Professor of Modern Art in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. He is the co-author (with Dominic Williams) of Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (2016) and the author of After Francis Bacon: Synaesthesia and Sex in Paint (2012). He has also co-edited (with Ika Willis) a special issue of the journal parallax on the theme of Trans-: Across/Beyond (2016). -
Sally Bryant
Sustaina ble W il dl ife Tou rism Co n v e n ti on HOBART TASMANIA 2001 WildlifeWildlife Tourism:Tourism: EndangeredEndangered oror SustainableSustainable Growth?Growth? Program and Abstracts Program and First National Convention on Wildlife Tourism in Australia 28TH - 30TH OCTOBER, 2001 Welcome Welcome ..................................................1 Dear Wildlife Tourism Delegate, Committee ................................................1 The CRC for Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Tasmania and the Sponsors ..................................................1 organising committee are delighted to welcome you to Contents Australia’s first national convention on wildlife tourism. Company Profiles ..................................2-5 Tasmania provides an ideal setting for a convention on wildlife General Information................................6-7 tourism. It is rich in natural beauty, and its natural areas are home to an abundance of Australia’s and Tasmania’s unique Social Events ............................................7 wildlife. Program & Floor Map ..........................8-10 We wish to encourage you to participate fully to gain maximum benefit from the information and ideas being Abstracts............................................11-78 shared. Your contribution will be valuable in ensuring that the Map ........................................................79 benefits of wildlife tourism are maximised for wildlife, tourists, operators and society as a whole. We thank you for taking this opportunity to contribute to the