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BSSA Field Research Grant • New Committee Members Goes To Issue 27: May 2006 This issue: And our first • BSSA Grant • President Speaks • Notices BSSA Field Research Grant • New Committee Members goes to: • Feature Scientist: Chris Hannocks Diane Colombelli-Négrel • Volunteering at Adelaide Zoo • Life of a Zoo Keeper • Volunteering at Pinkawillinie CP • Echidna • Fieldwork Oppor- tunities Photo: DCP lab Superb Fairy-wren Do you need volunteers? For her project on: Email: biologysociety @esc.net.au Predator recognition in a cooperative breeding bird, the Superb Fairy-wren What would you like (Malurus cyaneus ). to see in future BSSA newsletters? Diane is a PhD Candidate at Flinders University. Email janet.newell@ We wish Diane all the best with her project. adelaide.edu.au with suggestions. Biology Society of South Australia, c/o Department of Environmental Biology DP312, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005. Website: http://users.esc.net.au/~biologysociety E-mail: [email protected] The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of the Biology Society of South Australia, Inc. PAGE 2 BIOLOGY SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA ISSUE 27 The President Speaks! I’d like to first thank all our sponsors from the 2005 quiz night and congratulate Diane on being our first BSSA Field Research Grant awardee. We hope that she will be keeping us up-to-date on her project and look forward to her presentation. There is a lot of enthusiasm this year for getting the Biology Society more active. We have two new officers on the committee that you’ll meet in this issue. Hopefully you also are being overwhelmed with research opportunities and are getting out there and volun- teering! If you have volunteered already, we’d love to hear from you, just email us about your experience and we’ll feature your story in the next newsletter. I hope you find this issue interesting. It features a lot of Zoo experiences, from being the Director to the life of a Zoo Keeper, but best of all, shows that you can gain a ca- reer from volunteering! In another great article, Janet tells about volunteering at Pinkawillinie CP and did return with some bandaged digits, but it was well worth it for the cute little furries she saw. What’s next for us? We are working on planning the October quiz night, busily thinking of questions and getting sponsors for some more great prizes this year. We hope to dou- ble our efforts from last year so that we can offer two grants in 2007! That’s all from me. Enjoy this newsletter and we hope to see you at our next meeting. Dr Rob Morrison, OAM, (aka the curiosity show man) will be giving quite an interesting talk on Extinction. Tina Bentz The BSSA Committee - 2006 Interested in becoming more involved in BSSA? We need an Activities Officer - so let Tina know if you are interested. Position Name Contact Details President Tina Bentz [email protected] Vice-President/Acting Treasurer Craig Gillespie [email protected] Secretary Sof Wells [email protected] Membership Officer Jill Woodhouse [email protected] Activities Officer This could be U!!! Publicity Officer Joshua Griffiths [email protected] Web Site Coordinator Grace Chan [email protected] Newsletter Editor Janet Newell [email protected] DWLBC Contact Ron Sinclair [email protected] DEH Contact Piers Brissenden [email protected] ISSUE 27 BIOLOGY SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA PAGE 3 NOTICES ! Our Next Annual BSSA Meeting General Meeting When: 10 August 2006, 5:30pm Where: Tea room, Benham When: 14 September 2006, 5:30pm Building, University of Adelaide Where: Tea room, Benham Building, University of Adelaide Speaker: Dr Rob Morrison, OAM Speaker: President of the RZSSA Dr Sabine Dittman (a.k.a the Curiosity Show man) Flinders University ‘Extinction as a fashion statement’ Coorong waders and benthic diversity Annual Quiz Night Reminder that our annual Quiz Night is on Friday 13th October!! Come and help us raise funds for next years field research grant!!! More details on our website MEET O UR N EW C OMMITTEE M EMBERS Join with us in welcoming our two new BSSA committee members.: Joshua Griffiths Jill Woodhouse Publicity Officer Membership Officer Hi everyone. I'm a PhD candidate supervised by Sue Hi, I'm Jill, an Environmental Management graduate from Carthew and Greg Johnston at Adelaide Uni. Despite my WA. All things environmental, natural and beautiful are my picture, I actually really like little big interests in life, so I'm keen to furry (or scaly/feathery) Australian promote conservation and get my critters and am passionate about hands dirty too! I'm really looking their conservation. I am currently forward to being involved in BSSA investigating the ecology of to meet to whole lot of interesting reintroduced bilbies in arid and people, find out more about the semi-arid South Australia. I also issues in SA and do something enjoy doing a bit of amateur about them! Other interests wildlife photography when I find include bellydancing, basketball, the time. baking and exploring. PAGE 4 BIOLOGY SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA ISSUE 27 Our Feature Scientist: Chris Hannocks Director of Monarto Zoological Park When I was 6 years old, my English father and South African mother decided to leave the UK and settle in Cape Town, South Africa. My father, as an immigrant to a beautiful yet strange country, decided in his wisdom, to enrol me into an Afrikaans (Dutch) boarding school, in a small country town called Villiersdorp, some one hundred miles out of Cape Town. If you have read the book “Power of One “ by Bryce Courtney, the main character PK is a dead ringer for the lifestyle that I, as a small English boy, was subjected to. I was personally held responsible for everything that ailed Afrikaanerdom in those dark days, from losing the Boer War to the their inability to beat the English at rugby or cricket. Life was hell on earth with constant beatings for being the only ‘rooi neck”, “engelsman” in a very Afrikaaner society. Life was interesting in those days and brings meaning to the expression “survival of the fittest”. Photo: Rotary Club Website Chris Hannocks Life was little different during my National Service being in a Commando outfit consisting of mainly Afrikaaners and Germans. However, working in the wilderness areas of the Caprivi Strip, Angola Mozambique, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and Botswana during my National Service added to my love of all things wildlife, the African bush and its people. In retrospect it was the manner of my upbringing and character making that has taught me the rights and wrongs of life, tolerance of things different and a respect for the Afrikaaner Nation and its journey of life in Africa, as an exile population from Holland on religious and other grounds. Attempting to carve out an existence in a foreign land bedevilled by insurmountable problems of drought, disease, wild animals, strange people (the Brits) and warring tribes of Zulus and Shangaans, from the north. It couldn’t of been much fun pincered by the “Red Coats” in the south and the “Zulu Impis” in the North. My love of wildlife and mountains developed in the “Berge” of this Cape upbringing, looking for baboons, leopards, snakes and birds and an introduction to the black people of Africa. Nelson Mandela (a Xhosa), who saved South Africa from total anarchy and destruction, is one of the worlds greatest leaders, and is a role model that has influenced me. I have great respect for him. In his biography he says not one derogatory word about his captors who locked him away on Robben Island for twenty three years, despite the abuse he suffered from his captors and political foes. That says something about his strength of character and personality! It makes me wonder what life would have dished up if I had remained in the UK - perhaps robins, hedgerows and Sherwood Forest? Do I thank my father in his British wisdom for dropping me on my head in a strange country and saying swim or sink? Of course I do - I would have it no other way. Growing up in the Cape of Good Hope and later in Natal bought me into close contact to the sea and my first thoughts of a career was in marine biology. But when push comes to shove as a young man who was not very scholastic, I had to earn a living and so started my working life off as an insurance broker and ending up some years later as a qualified broker. However, there was still a yearning to do something with animals and the bush. So, with a never say die attitude I approached the Natal Parks Board for a game ranger position and after many rounds of interviews and assessments, I was eventually given a position as Ranger in the Coastal Fisheries Division, in Durban and promoted over several years to Senior Ranger and Zone ISSUE 27 BIOLOGY SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA PAGE 5 Officer running many Game & Marine Reserves in Natal. The princely wage in those days was R99.00 per month. It was a wonderful life in the water, in the bush working with the most wonderful people, mainly Zulus conserving wildlife. The love and experience I developed for game capture and relocation for large mammals such as Rhino, still live with me today, in my work at Monarto Zoological Park. Alas, I was ambitious and the Director of Natal Parks Board, Dr. George Hughes, thought I was good enough to go to University.
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