With the Yakka skink (Egernia rugosa) and the Ornamental snake (Denisonia maculata) making a big splash in the news headlines of late, being unfairly vilified for the eminent collapse of an uneconomic mining proposal, It’s a good time to introduce you to them 🙂 Yakka skink (Egernia rugosa) The Yakka skink is a large skink…
Australia is home to a large and diverse number of native species – approximately; – 450 mammal species of which 87% are endemic – 140 species of snake, 2 species of crocodile and 300 species of lizard of which 93% are endemic – 750 species of birds of which 45% are endemic, and – 214…
Many native australian critters suffer enormous predation pressure from introduced mammalian predators such as the cat and red fox. A recent paper released in ‘Restoration Ecology’ argues that the reintroduction of the pseudo native dingo could help relieve some of this pressure as it preys upon these mid-sized mammals. The paper argues that the removal…
Anyone who has worked in wildlife management around the brigalow belt for long enough will know how different the golden-tailed geckos (Strophurus taenicauda) they find can look – thus it will come as no surprise that in 2012 they were split into 3 subspecies. This spilt was done on the basis of scalation, genetic differences…