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Phascolarctos Cinereus): a BIBLIOGRAPHY TITLE: KOALA (Phascolarctos cinereus): A BIBLIOGRAPHY AUTHOR & INSTITUTION: Kay A. Kenyon, Librarian National Zoological Park Branch Smithsonian Insitution Libraries Washington, D.C. & Angie Norell, Librarian Minnesota Zoo Apple Valley, Minnesota DATE: June 1988 LAST UPDATE: November 1995 All references are arranged alphabetically by author under the following headings: General Anatomy and Physiology Veterinary Medicine and Pathology Diseases and Parasites Nutrition and Food Habits Reproduction Ecology and Behavior Captive Management Conservation GENERAL Barrett, C. 1943. Koala The Story of Australia' s Native Bear. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens. Bergin, T.J., editor. 1978. The Koala: Proceedings of the Taronga Symposium. Australia: Zoological Park Board of New South Wales. Dawson, T.J. 1983. Monotremes and Marsupials: The Other Mammals. London: Edward Arnold. Dayton, L. 1990. Can koalas bear the twentieth century? New Scientist, 127(1735):43-45. Gould, J. 1863. The Mammals of Australia. London: Taylor & Francis. Gray, D. 1986. Koala mania. International Wildlife, 16(3):4-11. Iredale, T. and G.P. Whitley. 1934. The early history of the koala. Victorian Naturalist, 51:62-72. Lee, A. and R. Martin. 1988. The Koala: A Natural History. Kensington, Austraia: New South Wales University Press, 102 pp. Lee, A.K., K.A. Handasyde and G.D. Sanson, eds. 1990. Biology of the Koala. Chipping North, N.S.W.: Surrey Beatty & Sons, 336 pp. Lydekker, R. 1894. A Handbook of the Marsupalia and Monotremata. London: W.H. Allen & Co. 1 Lyne, G. 1967. Marsupials and Monotremes of Australia. New York: Taplinger Pub. Martin, R.W. 1984. Koala. In: Macdonald, D., ed. The Encylopedia of Mammals, New York: Facts on File, pp. 872-875. Martin, R.W and A.K. Lee. 1984. The koala, Phascolarctos cinereus, the largest marsupial folivore. In: A.P. Smith & I.D. Hume (eds). Possums and Gilders, pp. 463-467. Australian Mammal Society. Sydney. Moeller, H.F. and B. Grzimek. 1990. Koalas. In: Grzimek' s Encyclopedia of Mammals, vol. 1, New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 330-338. Ough, K., K. Handasyde, R.W. Martin, and A.K. Lee. 1988. Koalas in tea-tree. Victorian Naturalist, 105(2):17-18. Parris, H.S. 1948. Koalas on the lower Goulburn. Victorian Naturalist, 64:192-193. Pratt, A. 1937. The Call of the Koala, Melbourne: Robertson & Mullins. Serventy, V. and C. Serventy. 1975. The Koala. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Spender, G. 1968. Encounter with koala behavior. Wildlife Australia, 5(3):87. Stead, D.G. 1934. The koala or native bear. Australian Wildlife, 1:13-22. Stonehouse, B. and D. Gilmore. 1977. The Biology of Marsupials. London: Macmillan Press. Troughton, E. leG. 1941. Furred Animals of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sidney. Tyndale-Biscoe, H. 1973. Life of Marsupials. London: Edward Arnold. Williamson, H.D. 1975. The Year of the Koala. New York: Scribner. 2 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY Degabriele, R. 1980. The physiology of the koala. Scientific American, 243(1):110-117. Degabriele, R. and T.J. Dawson. 1980. Metabolism and heat balance in an arboreal marsupial, the koala, Phascolarctos-cinereus. Journal of Comparative Physiology, 134(4):293-302. Forbes, W.A. 1881. On some points in the anatomy of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 180-195. Gordon, G. 1991. Estimation of the age of the koala, phascolarctos cinereus (Marsupialia:Phascolarctidae), from tooth wear and growth. Australian Mammals, 14(1):5-12. Haight, J.R. and J.E. Nelson. 1987. A brain that doesn' t fit its skull; a comparative study of the brain and endocranium of the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus. In: M. Archer (ed) Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution. Surrey Beatty, Sydney. Hanger, J.J. and T.J. Heath. 1994. The arrangement of gut-associated lymphoid tissues and lymph pathways in the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). Journal of Anatomy, 185(1):129-134. Kratzing, J.E. 1984. The anatomy and histology of the nasal cavity of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). Journal of Anatomy, 138(1):55-65. Pocock, R.I. 1921. The external characters of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) and some related marsupials. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 591-607. Runciman, S.I.C., R.V. Baudinette and B.J. Gannon. 1992. The anatomy of the adult marsupial heart: an historical review. Australian Journal of Zoology, 40(1):21-34. Thomas, K., et al. 1986. Copper metabolism in the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) as indicated by a ceruloplasmin stimulation test. Physiological Zoology, 59(1): 29-34. Young, W.G., M. McGowan, and T.J. Daley. 1987. Tooth enamel structure in the koala (Phascolarctos-cinereus), some functional interpretation. Scanning Microscopyy. 1(4):1925- 1934. ----- and S.K. Robson. 1987. Jaw movements from microwear on the molar teeth of the koala, Phascolarctos-cinereus. Journal of Zoology (London). 213(1)51-62. 3 VETERINARY MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY Atwell, R.B. and R. Booth. 1990. Cardiac failure in a koala secondary to an atrail septal defect. Australian Veterinary Journal, 67(7):272-273. Brown, A.S. 1982. The use of Amitraz in the control of an outbreak of sarcoptic mange in a colony of koalas, Australian Veterinary Journal, 58(1):8-10. -----. 1988. The health of Australia's koalas: more research is needed urgently. Medical Journal of Australia, 149(11-12):662-664. -----, F.N. Carrick, G. Gordon, and K. Reynolds. 1984. The diagnosis and epidemiology of an infertility disease in the female koala, Phascolarctos-cinereus marsupial. Veterinary Radiology, 25(6):242-248. Bush, M., J.A.M. Graves, S.J. O' Brien and D.E. Wildt. 1990. Dissociative anaesthesia in free- ranging male koalas and selected marsupials in captivity. Australian Veterinary Journal, 47(12):449-451. Canfield, P.J. 1986. Chronic peritonitis and pancreatitis in a koala. Journal of Comparative Pathology, 96(4):469-472. -----. 1987. Membranous glomerulonephritis in a koala. Australian Veterinary Journal, 64(11):354- 355. -----. 1987. A mortality survey of free range koalas from the north coast of New South Wales. Australian Veterinary Journal, 64(11):325-328. -----. 1991. A survey of koala road kills in New South Wales. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 27(4):657-660. -----, A.S. Brown, W.R. Kelly, and R.H. Sutton. 1987. Spontaneous lymphoid neoplasia in the koala, Phascolarctos-cinereus. Journal of Comparative Pathology, 97(2):171-178. Canfield, P.J. and R.K. Dickens. 1982. Oxalate poisoning in a koala. Australian Veterinary Journal, 59(4):121-122. -----, R. Perry, A.S. Brown, and R.A. McKenzie. 1987. Cranio-facial tumor of mixed cartilage and bone in koalas, Phascolarctos-cinereus. Australian Veterinary Journal, 64(1):20-22. -----, J.M. Sabine, and D.N. Love. 1988. Virus particles associated with leukaemia in a koala. Australian Veterinary Journal, 65(10):327-328. -----, and A.J. Spencer. 1993. Renal complications of cystitis in koalas. Australian Veterinary Journal, 70(8):310-311. ----- and A.J. Spencer. 1993. Secondary degenerative arthropathy (Osteoarthrosis) of the hip joints in ageing free-living koalas. Australian Veterinary Journal, 70(10):394-395. -----, A. Spencer, W. Hartley, D. Spielman, L. Vogelnest and F. Hulst. 1992. Disorders of keratinization in a group of related, captive koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), with a review of other skin conditions in koalas. Journal of Wildlife Medicine, 23(4):414-421. Carlisle, C.H., A.S. Brown, L.J. Filippich, K. Reynolds, and W.T. Reynolds. Intravenous urography in the koala Phascolarctos-cinereus. Veterinary Radiology, 30(1):34-40. 4 Cleva, G.M., G.M. Stone, and R.K. Dickens. 1994. Seasonal changes in haematocrit in captive koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus). Australian Journal of Zoology, 42(2):233-236. Cleva, G.M., G.M. Stone, D.L. Evans, and R.K. Dickens. 1995. Chronic vascular catheterisation of the koala and the rabbit. Australian Veterinary Journal, 72(2):50-52. Cocciolone, R.A. and P. Timms. 1992. DNA profiling of Queensland koals reveals sufficient variability for individual identification and parentage determination. Wildlife Research, 19(3):279-287. Condron, R.J. and W. M. Forsyth. 1986. Hepatic inclusion bodies in the liver of a koala, Phascolarctos-cinereus. Australia Veterinary Journal, 63(11):387-388. Cork, S.J. and R.K. Dickens. Oxalate poisoning in a koala. Australian Veterinary Journal, 59(4): 121-122. Dickens, R.K. 1974. The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) past, present and future. Australian Veterinary Journal, 51(1):459-463. Gardiner, M.R. and M.E. Nairn. 1964. Cryptococcosis in koalas in western Australia. Australian Veterinary Journal, 40:62-63. Hirst, L.W., A.S. Brown, R. Kempster, and N. Winney. 1992. Ophthalmologic examination of the normal eye of the koala. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 28(3):419-423. Kempster, R.C., L.W. Hirst, and M.W. Powell. 1994. Heterochromia in a koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). Veterinary and Comparative Ophthalmology, 4(3):125-126. Ladds, P.W., A.D. Thomas, R. Speare and A.S. Brown. 1990. Melioidosis in a koala. Australian Veterinary Journal, 67(8):304-305. Nakai, Y., M. Niimi, T. Kanai, R. Osawa, T. Inamoto, T. Ando, and K. Ogimoto. 1995. Biochemical and antigenical characterization of tannin-protein complex degrading enterobacteria isolated from koala, Phascolarctos cinereus. Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, 57(3):559-561. Obendorf, D.L. 1981. Pathology of the female reproductive tract in the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus (Goldfuss), from Victoria, Australia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 17(4):587-592. Oxenford, C., et al. 1986. Cholecystitis and bronchopneumonia associated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a koala. Australian Veterinary Journal, 63(10): 338-339. Rezakhani, A., R.B. Atwell, and J.D. Webster. 1986. 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