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November 11, 2024

‘Death hotspot’: we found 145 koalas killed along a single Queensland highway last year

Rolf Schlagloth, CQUniversity Australia; Charley Geddes, CSIRO; Douglas Kerlin, Griffith University, and Flavia Santamaria, CQUniversity Australia

Central Queensland has become a koala refuge. But heavy traffic on one highway is threatening a vital population of these threatened marsupials

Aggressive behaviour exhibited by socially dominant Tasmanian devils may predispose them to infection with devil facial tumour disease. Sebastien Compte/University of Tasmania

May 11, 2017

Survival of the fittest? Perhaps not if you’re a Tasmanian devil

Konstans Wells, Griffith University; Andrew Storfer, Washington State University; Douglas Kerlin, Griffith University; Hamish McCallum, Griffith University; Menna Elizabeth Jones, University of Tasmania; Paul Hohenlohe, University of Idaho, and Rodrigo Hamede, University of Tasmania

It’s the Tasmanian devils that enjoy the highest survival and breeding success who’re more likely to get the fatal facial tumour disease.

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